Drexis Animations

Windy day, chilling after a run. 🦔🍃 #Sonic #SonicTheHedgehog

Destiny (2014)

I met a traveller from an antique land

I've been completely obsessed with this world since middle school. What a life changing journey

I’ve been building a PC for the first time and due to my curse of bad luck the GPU is faulty 💀💀

@Radrappy so true

there would be 8 chapters on sonic the hedgehog

Sonic 06 WIP

@Ryferion3D ya, basically using it for making character features like mouth/eyes etc. and some alpha blend / compositor tricks to render in front of the character face. It works great, until there's other transparent materials in the scene, which starts to cause issues haha

@Drexis_Anim are you doing the backface normal trick wait i might know

the main challenge with NPR in blender right now is the way Alpha Blend interacts. It tends to lose track of the depth of objects when rotating the camera around, sometimes I suddenly have clouds rendering in front of my character’s eyebrows 😭 it can be difficult to work with

@Reipart_ Yeeeahhh dithered has a lot of banding and artifacts sometimes 😅😅

@Drexis_Anim the only thing that fixes it is switching to dithered render method I think, but it's not ideal for all renders

I think maybe like 4 people on here will understand the specific thing I’m talking about haha but oh well. Blender is definitely getting much better recently for NPR, hoping to see that momentum continue 😼

I’m genuinely unsure how to fix depth clipping problems like this natively as of now until future updates come along, it’s one of those long-standing limitations I run into with stylized work

@MatthewBarona4 Yeah, it’s something I’ve been chipping away at for a very long time but still in the works 😼 thanks for the support!!

@Drexis_Anim Please correct me, but your special Sonic frontiers animation Video is still in development correct? Sorry, I really lost track of time, please take all the time you need, I’m rooting for ya.

50K likes is insane thank you guys 😭🙏

Lol I think I got too many notifications, I can’t see them anymore 😭

GUARDIAN: NINJA #SonicTheHedgehog

Say Cheese 💥 #Sonic

@Tr4yst3r_0718 Yo this is SICK

Enter, Shadow

@Courageous88471 Depends! Having an environment from the game like in this case helps as a starting point, but for my style I completely makeover the assets to be stylized, I add new rocks and grass and clouds etc. Honestly whatever is best for your creative vision and process 👍

@Drexis_Anim Hey! Any tips for making environments and stuff like do I waste my time handmaking the environment or do I search online?

@zerrvyx When you do hop into blender, definitely make sure to check out @pierrick_picaut’s courses/youtube if you are interested in really diving into the animation or rigging! His stuff is very inspirational and useful if you want to make things like this 😁

@Drexis_Anim Yeahhh I'm def learning the rule of "Work fast, break things, try again". For my classes we use Maya, so I'm hoping I can learn Blender with the things I'm learning about it. I'd love to be able to make stuff at the level you do someday!

@SXR123 Ayy thanks man!!

@Drexis_Anim Absolute insanity dude, seriously.