Mariska (WIP Update) (Patreon)

Long post ahead

This weeks i have been heavily focusing on the ongoing Mariska character project, hence the lack of posts, the early stages of creating a new character from scratch ain't really impressive to look at, but now Mariska is at a stage where is worth sharing for you to see.

90% of the times im quite unsatisfied with the results for every project, but for this one i think the results are turning pretty decent, im specially pleased with the face which tends to be both: the most difficult and the most important part of every character, it is still far from perfect, but i think this is the current culmination of the previous 3 characters (Simone, Rachel and Minato), from Rachel to Mariska i think there has been some noticeable improvements, anatomically: there were some "cartoony" details with Rachel head/face and limbs i didn't liked, i think with Mariska the proportions are much more balanced, one think i didn't im not quite convinced yet is the back of the new 3XL body at this point i don't think i'll be doing any big changes on the anatomy since i would like to focus on the finishing details, you'll see the back and more of the new body when Mariska galleries come up.

Working on the skin details took an insane amount of time, there where a couple of reasons: the for detailed models like this the software runs like an absolute trash, i think i spend 40% of the skin sculpting waiting for the brushes to load, unfortunately this is not hardware related but rather poor optimization, therefore if i want to keep this workflow, there is not much i can do, additionally as you can see (specially on the genital shoot) i wanted the skin to be as detailed as possibly (or at least as the program could manage without imploding) so for the face and genital i where testing several brushes to achieve interesting results and of course for each change and adjustment the program had to take like 30-60 seconds, but i think the resut turned out pretty good, i also found a new method for one of the color layers for the skin, so although subtle, the color map for Mariska has some improvements using the same technique as the other characters.

Mariska is far from ready, there's still several small tweaks and corrections needed on the model and after that i need to work on the rigging so i can pose her and i would also will be making her an exclusive apparel for her upcoming content, on top of that i would also like to have a new room, i may be reusing and updating one of the older engine (perhaps a fancy bathroom or bedroom ), i think i'll take a small pause on this week to focus on the pending Arschtopfers clips and the upcoming Lewd stranger video for this month.

I wanted to add the old WIP images as a time lapse of sorts, both are the exact same model ( shocking, right ?), the old coloring and lighting where some kind of rough sketch, as you can see with the final textures, shaders and lighting from the early stage to later ones the models have an immense change.

I know the 3XL may not be from everyone taste, but it's something i wanted to do since the first big dGirl characters, and i mean really doing it with it's respective folds and curves, rather than using the same neutral base body and just stretch it (as in the current engine) , for future 3XL characters i think i'll be using the exact same body and just make the heads from scratch, this means future characters shouldn't turn out much more faster since they will be requiring just some tweaks, for the next character i was thinking about a black dGirl or perhaps upgrading Haruna.

With Rachel i thought i had the curvy body type, but after watching the results with the 3XL body i think the curvy can be much better, so im planing on redoing it in a future ( yep, im a such a stubborn fella), as this may be the most common body type ( i.e Beatrix, Mrs. Bailey, Natallia Éllise and so on).

What do you think of this new character and the new 3XL body ?, As always feel free to share your thoughts and feedback.