I created an about me page, need to look into having it anchored through site (new to wordpress, intend to migrate to a django served blog tho)
Category: Intro
b3ta: Animating
Intro:
I decided to design b3ta to have a range of facial expressions, the goal being having movements in the face which mimic the movements of an animal (ears, nose, whiskers) and human (eyes, lips, mouth, eyelids, eyebrows).
Doing this will require anamatronics, or put otherwise, the planning of:
What needs to move and how
Testing the desired expressions/movements on the 3d model (rigging/animating in blender)
Abstracting these movements to mechanical motions
Prototyping
Building (3d printing, mechano, wire, foam, motors, linear actuators, guy cord, drive belts, steppers, ping pong balls, abs, silicon rubber, fymo, paint, foam, mesh, wire mesh, dye, …)
Wiring
Programming
… It’ll be a lot of work… Each of these points will be expanded on periodically, as completed and written up nicely. This may cause a delay in some parts as I work sporadically on different stages, to maintain variety in jobs and pique interest (also my problem solving and thought procesess are a little …frenetic).
I think I’ll post the work on the ears next. Or prototype head meshing (from last year).
b3ta: Intro
After much deliberation over what to do for first fursuit, I have settled on a Red Panda. whom I shall call “b3ta”. b3ta, so called because I will be using him as a test bed for ideas, before further refinement and improvements (later version, or other fursuits).
Musings:
EF21 was a fantastic con last year, my first (and only) furry con to date. There were some truly fantastic suits on display there, not to mention the amazingly warm and welcoming people I met there too!
The perils of drunken con nights means said sketches are no more, trashed. The idea lives on! *fires up blender to start on parts*
First post!
Hello people!
- 3D Printer reviews (Prussia I3; M3D)
- 3D printer tech reviews
- Board and tech reviews
- Fursuit building progress
- Furry stuff (general)
- Eurofurence! (EF 22)
- Modelling progress
- Anamatronics updates
For now, sit back, and be patient 🙂