Minato V.1 (Patreon)

First version of Minato's model is kinda ready, in this post I'll share some tech details and on the next post there will be a few more images now with his school girl outfit

The model and the render have been ready for some weeks but i was hesitant on releasing the renders since the more i look at the model the more flaws i found, but i realized that i could indefinitely keep tweaking and tweaking and will never be satisfied with the results, so i'll be sharing the current state, since these new models offer vast possibilities for upgrades and with my current skill there's plenty of room for improvement i think i'll be versioning the models, what you'll be seeing for upcoming Minato's posts is version 1 so im planning various corrections, im overall satisfied with the face so i don't think I'll be doing any additional work on it and most of the body is looking actually fine, with the exception of the hands, im kinda struggling to figure out how to improve them, i may also do some work on the skin, first: although i used the same technique as with Rachel i found the result kinda worse, also i messed up the folds and wrinkles on the butt area so it's not looking as smooth as it should, so i didn't get any butt renders (yet) until i fix that area.

To get Minato's model i used a couple of new tools meant to ease and improve the rigging (aka. the thing that allows me to pose the character), there's lots of parameters and settings and im sure that how i currently have him setup is sub-optimal since i have 2 different rigs (one for the face and one for the body) so what's happening "behind the scenes" is a complete mess, so i'll have to find more info and dig into the documentation to find out how to improve it or if this is how it's actually meant to work.

I also successfully did a couple of renders with Simone and Minato in the same image, no crashes and no "funny" stuff happened, but time and performance wise i definitely going to need to use a different technique for the hair. I didn't saved the renders as the poses turned out very awkward mostly on the butt and im not sure if it's all about tweaking the pose or there's something wrong with the rig.

For this model i originally intended to practice face sculpting and tried to achieve and Asian looking fem-male, hence his name, i completely failed on achieving the Asian look, but i still liked the result, so i would like to know if you think the name still suits him.