#mallory varjoranta

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// long ago i was imagining // the stars // crown on my head

#purp art #my characters #saltwater #mallory varjoranta #im really happy with how translating the 3d model to illustrations works actually #like i thumbnailed this before posing the model and polished up the render afterwards and it's just. convenient #which makes me hopeful about using this to make comics bc it removes the shit that stops me on my tracks typically #anyway i went outside to get the picture for the bg and mosquitos ate my ass on the way so you're legally obligated to observe this

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ワールド・エグ * No known hatching method.

#purp art #saltwater #mallory varjoranta #my characters #there's some jank in a few places admittedly #the hands in particular are kinda tricky to get to look right just by posing them #and i need to get better at adjusting the shoulders too #i think just planning things out instead of blindly jumping into blender would help a lot lmao #anyway i'd love to talk about the funny egg but i need to nail down the exact shit it does first #and it might also require me to talk about the general worldbuilding more first which is also hard #world egg

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yippee the rig is done and the weight painting is serviceable she might be ready :D i definitely need to make more shapekeys for the face and i think i need to fuck around with some textures for better effects, maybe adjust things with the shader further, but as far as i can tell this is doing pretty what i want it to be doing so far

#purp art #my characters #mallory varjoranta #weight painting is wack at some places with the clothes bc the whole body is modeled but it should be fine #the outline is slightly tricky to work with bc the thickness depends on where the light's hitting the mesh #and with darker areas in the texture it gets greedier than i want it to be #but i should be able to work around those

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Your heart is a beating glass ornament

#purp art #my characters #mallory varjoranta #i figured it was about time i actually rendered something and made a piece out of it and yeah it works :D #im not sure if posing a 3d model saves time from actually drawing the character yourself and it has certainly some limitations sure #but i think it makes for an engaging step in the workflow that might help me out in some situations #also with the bg i have some more concrete ideas for general aesthetic related things... #including glass. im going to have to model myself some glass i hate drawing glass and trying to keep it glass-y with this style hee hoo #saltwater

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not to yap about my ocs but mallard's relationship to her ps1 games would've been anomalous when she was a kid. not in the sense the games are haunted or anything but rather the way she interacted with them was unintended and weird in many ways

she only had a handful of games and the crown jewels of that collection were digimon world 1 and 2, games almost esoteric in their design that is often unfriendly to the player. she loved those games. had notebooks full of scribbles and notes written as she tried to deconstruct the games and figure out what was going on. strategies crafted over months on how to get specific digimon near certainly in 1, which items to bring into specific dungeons in 2 and floor patterns that repeated from time to time. hundreds of hours of playtime in both individually. she never would have beaten 2. might have gotten close in 1 but never actually made it. she thought they were infinite and perhaps even ever-expanding experiences. she might have had a spyro game as well but would not have much cared for it because she managed to finish it. there was an ending she was able to reach, and that was more disappointing than anything to her. so she returns to her digimon games, chipping away at them, months of her childhood sunken into ps1 games as new consoles come out until she finds other things to do that start cutting down that time

of course she eventually reaches a point where she realizes that games having endings is a standard practice and that the digimon world games always had endings, she just played them like a child and never got to see them. not that it wouldn't have been a kind of formative childhood experience to her and shaped her relationship with games (and things beyond games) down the line

#soda offers you a can #mallory varjoranta #saltwater #actually i was debating if i should've given her a different console to grow up with. like the saturn or the dreamcast #im sure those would've also had weird esoteric games on them but im most familiar with the digimon worlds #and i could easily see a child pouring excessive hours into them should they get enamored by them

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yeag i think i've made something i can work with. of course i still have to rig it and that's a whole other nightmare for a later date hee hoo

#purp doot #my characters #mallory varjoranta #the eyes were just. dear god the material is probably dogshit complicated #like i made them their own materials separately and then slapped the toon shader shit on top of it to make them more consistent #there are colors underneath the grayscale. but they are a secret :) #i might need to do a couple more test renders bc idk if the outline is working exactly the way i want it to? #it could be a camera thing though

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went on a run with my jojo interpretations this weekend hee hoo

#purp doot #my characters #mallory varjoranta #iisakki varjoranta #im pretty settled on the names so i think i'll tag them yea #the influences are very present but i think that's ok for now #i just. couldn't let go of the buns i love drawing them sm... #but yeah uh deets? #mallory sounds a bit like mallard so she got that as a nickname. she's also called duck sometimes i think #american mom i have yet to finalize much for but i have a general idea for her #unsure if mallard grew up in the states or finland but i think she's living in finland with iisakki atm #she's also Very prone to accidents and small cuts and stuff #iisakki has big old man vibes even tho he's like. middle aged still lol #he's a surprisingly good cook! tho he prefers to cook like. very traditional dishes #lots of potatoes and dill and fish. meatballs and all that good jazz #not sure what the source of his bigger scars are but i'll figure it out later when i get to story beats and shit #prolly all i have atm? all i can think of anyway #saltwater #<- i'll make that the tag for whatever this setting is #(yes i used it on ao3 for a jojo fic series yes i still plan on writing it)