Introducing Nephilima! (Patreon)

     I'm late with the rest of the posts for last week but holy crap do I have something better than a Doctor's note. Per member request, I went all-out yesterday and the previous night and created a Nephilim: a 6-toed demi-goddess from the times of myths and legends. She's all rigged and ready to go. Not only for posing but for animation. Can you imagine how cool it's going to look to be on the receiving end of a POV f00tjob from her, let alone how great it would feel to get one if it actually happened in real life?

       When I first received the challenge, I thought I might be out of my depth. I was able to duplicate a toe and scale it down. I had to create a gap between the second and third toe to make room for the extra one.  Once I had the gap I inserted the extra toe and made a seamless graft. I then applied textures from the original model. It was here that I thought I would have an impossible time bit the UV maps were able to identify the 6th digit. There are still a couple of minor flaws but no worse than what came with my last Juri model. With some research, I can make corrections by painting the maps. I can certainly make corrections in post.

     From there I did a TON of sculpting on the first foot. It was not enough to make Nephilima a curiosity or an oddity. I wanted to make her HOT! I extended the toes out and worked each one until it was perfectly proportional the the ones next to it. I made the pinky long and prehensile. It's got work to do and is not there just for decoration as you'll see.

      I duplicated the final foot model, mirrored it, and grafted the duplicate onto the other ankle. Now, it was time to rig.

     Here is where I almost met my downfall. I have had enormous luck creating rigged characters in Blender with auto-weight painting. It didn't work this time. Not on the feet. I spent hours learning the basics of weight painting in Blender and after so many failed attempts, I have those techniques down cold. This will be a huge knowledge asset to have for future, more advanced projects.

    At the end of the day hpowever, my rigging issue was solved with the simple click of a box that was probably checked by default when auto-rigging in earlier versions of Blender.

   So here she is. Nephilima! I'm sorry I don't have her on a proper set or laid back on a bed where you can get a really good look at her soles. Once I get her Rigified, where I can more easily pose her using Inverse Kinematics than with her current base rig, I'll be able to crank out lots of content with her.

The other 18 images promised for Saturday are rendered. I have to leave in a few hours for a business trip for a few days but hope to have them up before I go. I'll have a 3-day weekend next week and an easy following week so there is no chance of falling far behind.

     Thanks for giving me the time to take my skills to the next level (and for my 2-day Elden Ring Bender I put off for a year. No more of that until I get another video up. I promise.)

     So what does everyone think of Nephilima so far? Is she an abomination, or super smoking hot (I'm thinking the latter)? Would you call for an Uber if you were making out with her at her place and she took off her shoes or would you make her feel beautiful?