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To be perfectly honest, I haven't touched this project, or 3D stuff in general, since my last post (4 months? Yeesh...), having gotten more interested in digital painting. Since it's been numerous weeks since my tablet broke (protip: don't trust Wacom products with wire connectors, they break easily and then you will cry) and going mad from a lack of being able to do anything about it, I suddenly remembered about poor X here.

...And remembered that part of the reason I'd lost interest was because I couldn't get his eyes to move. But today I finally figured that out! So I made a .gif. A really small and noisy .gif 'cause I'm impatient.

Not sure what I'll do at this point. Playing it by ear is probably my best option. I can at least finish his rig and try some animation tests. Hopefully, my new tablet will show up in the next few days so I could possibly do some storyboarding and other pre-viz stuff.

#Mega Man X #Test Render #Gif

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Half the reason I wanted to use MMX's intro stage is because I already had a decent model of X ready. Here's a screencap of what he's looking like.

(Yeah, yeah, I've technically got models all of them but this one's newer)

#Mega Man X #Test Render

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@ flame-lizy: It wasn't the time so much as that I came to the opinion that my idea wasn't worth realizing. It was going to be a sequence of final battles, one per series with each fading into the next in some way. The pattern was going to be Volnutt vs Sera > Aile vs Serpent > Zero vs Copy X > Geo vs Crimson Dragon > X vs Sigma > MegaMan.EXE vs Alpha > Rock vs Wily Machine #1. OVER-1 might have made a cameo at the end, somehow. It might have been cool had I succeeded but it wouldn't have had much of any point beyond that. The MMX idea is a bit different and I'll explain why below.

@ sepalina: I certainly got stuff done I wouldn't have otherwise. :) The intro stage may seem overdone (though I can't think of anything off the top of my head ^-^;) I want to try something a bit different. Unlike, say, Shane Newville's MMX animation or Rockman Xero, which are more about epic fight scenes, what I've got in mind is more acting-heavy. Epic fight scenes are cool and have their place and Mega Man fans should check out the videos I linked to. I'll hopefully get to some scripting and storyboarding on Monday. What I'm going for might be more clear once I do.

Thank you very much for your comments and support!

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*Disturbs Dust*

Well, I've been thinking about this tumblr lately and, to be honest, I find it a bit of an eyesore. Not because it's a record of my inability to complete its project (which it is) but because it sits here, without anything to update it. I just want to be able to update it. To do something with it. So I'm writing this to propose a new idea/project and to see if anyone would actually care.

The idea is to make an animation, probably around a minute long, based on the intro stage of Mega Man X. Specifically, the intro stage up to the first Bee Blader. Not the whole stage because that would involve Storm Eagle's battleship, Zero, and Vile with his ride armor. I'd never finish that so I'm aiming lower. It's still rather ambitious.

So... that's it. That's my idea. I'd like to know what you think. If you've got other small ideas that you think would be better, I'm all ears. I'd also like to change the url of this tumblr but haven't decided to what, yet.

#announcement

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Have you ever done any Bass/Forte art? Great blog. Im a huge fan of megaman legends and am sad that there wont be a III.

All I can say is that I sketched him out once semi-recently (it wasn't very good...) and I haven't done any 3D work of him.

Yeah, Legends 3 getting cancelled was no fun at all.

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Not related to my ended fan film project but it is a 3D Mega Man X piece by me so it may be relevant to your interests?

“I’m Sorry, Old Friend”

dA link

My entry for a video game-themed Blender contest.

#Mega Man X #Rockman X #Storm Eagle #Blender

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Afterward

Well, it's time for me to say what so many overambitious fan creators have said in the past:

I'm done. I had grand plans that outpaced my ability. This whole project has taught me the limits of what I know. It would be a disservice to you and me if I kept working since I'm just not up to the task. So I plan to take some significant time to learn the areas I don't know (which is everything, but some things a lot more than others). Will I ever come back to this project? Maybe, but I really don't know and it wouldn't be within the next year, at least.

All that being said, if anyone has questions, I'll leave the ask box open.

Thank you so much for sticking with me this year and I'm sorry I didn't have more to show you.

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Well, here's the Legends scene, just in time for the big 25!

It's really short and doesn't have an ending since the intent was to transition to the next scene. Oh well.

#Yes 9 seconds #Mega Man Legends #Mega Man #Volnutt #Sera #Animation #Rockman DASH #Rockman #DASH

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From Protodude’s Rockman Corner.

I… what. I don’t even know… It’s amusing, certainly. It’s almost a way for Mega Man to say, “Now it’s time to stay out of MY anniversary!”

#Mega Man #Street Fighter #Game announcement #Official Fan Game

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It's the same frame as before to highlight the changes. Sera is now fully textured... I think. Did you know Sera's wings are pink? I didn't. Her concept art has them green so I'd made them green. I had an interesting reaction when I looked up game footage to check something else and noticed the pink.

Spot the difference!

#Mega Man Legends #Volnutt #Trigger #Sera

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I'm Home!

I'm alive, I'm home, and I'm fairly miserable at the moment.

But yeah, update for you.

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BRB, Hospital

I made myself post something this evening because in about 12 hours I'll be in surgery. It's fairly straight-forward oral surgery so I'm not especially worried. But it's still surgery, though, so I'm a bit nervous. I won't be home until Friday so I won't get anything done until then.

If you pray, I'd be extremely grateful if you could remember me in the next day or two.

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Ok, so technically this is what things look like currently. Sera's textures are unfinished and I haven't done much of anything about lighting.

#Mega Man Legends #Volnutt #Sera #Test Render

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why are there no updates for so long?

There have been no updates because I haven't gotten anything done. One of the reasons for that is that I was stuck on a necessary evil called uv mapping. I loathe it and nothing was unwrapping the way it should have. It shredded what little motivation I had. Today, however, I found the parameter that was fouling me up. So now I just dislike it instead of it actively defying me. Hopefully, I'll get something done this week.

Also, I've come to like drawing OVER-1 a fair bit. I call him Fugue now. The game still doesn't impress me much, though.

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To Those Who Say I Should Be Excited For Rockman Xover Because It's a New Mega Man Game...

BELIEVE ME, I WAS EXCITED!

I can’t tell you how high my heart flew that first instant I saw this. Then I calmed down enough to read the rest of that title, the rest of that article, and many pieces of info since.

I was excited for Rockman Xover as a new Mega Man game but then I was given many reasons not to be.

#Rockman Xover #Rockman XOver #Mega Man Xover #Megaman Xover

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First major animation pass (key poses and timing) of the first scene, the Mega Man Legends scene. There's obviously a ton of polishing for me to do.

I'm not finished making Sera, including modelling. Just in case you notice something off about her.

#Mega Man Legends #Volnutt #Legends #Mega Man #Animation

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Took me long enough to update him but I finally sat down and did so today.

dA link

#Rockman Xover #Over-1 #Model #Test Render #Hero