Iris Sculpt

After wasting months painting iris textures and trying to bolt them onto an old sculpt, I finally relented and resculpted it.  I wanted to wait until I'd replaced my severely declining Wacom before doing that - until I realised the eraser end of the pen (which has the same functionality as the pointy end) still works!

New Skin Products Launch

Universal Human Skin Shader and Face Textures are now available:

Most of the rigs and base meshes have also received a big update, the details of which can be found on the overhauled Universal Human website, along with instructions for making your own textures and baking displacements, amongst other things.

I now await a flood of cosmetics and skin care spam in the comments.

Made Up

All prettied up for the the new skin products launch.

Skin Tone

Let's get some colour back in them cheeks.

Flexpressions

New dynamic wrinkles and textures stress test.  Details here. 

The Perfect Face...?

Here's what 18 models and celebrities look like blended together (in Blender, not in a blender).  More info here.

Plica Semilunaris

For the uninitiated, the plica semilunaris is the vestigial nictitating bulbar conjunctiva adjacent to the lacrimal caruncle at the medial canthus (obviously...), and is the main focus of today's video.  More info here.

Skin

Retextured the face to better withstand close-ups, but I overshot the mark a bit... now it goes all the way to macro!

Wrinkles & Skin Slide

 Heh, forgot to post this on my own website.

Universal Human Website

The other day I added a proper front page and gallery to the place where the Universal Human documentation resides, and then didn't bother to tell anybody.  I should probably do that.

8 New Releases

My Gumroad store just received a massive influx of new items!  But first, here's the obligatory demo video for the long awaited Face Rig:

Rather than disrupt my site's aesthetics with a cascade of Gumroad buttons, I've added some pictures to click on for instead for details.  The fourth one just goes to the storefront, so here are direct links to the Head Base Meshes: Male, Female, African, Asian, European.

Version 2.0 Out Now!

Finally! I cobbled a video together mostly from pertinent bits of the full video, and revamped a music sketch I found in my archives.

Here's that product page button again, in all its conspicuous glory.

Buy Human

A Snag

I've slightly bungled my self-imposed deadline by possibly not being clear enough about the actual week of release (it's this week), plus I realised at the last minute that the launch video could really do with a soundtrack on it… so let's give it another day or two to be safe.   In the mean time I've *secretly* updated the file on Gumroad, so customers don't have to wait… ;)

Stand by for the PROPER release!!

Version 2.0

The showcase video I'm making to coincide with the Base Version update is taking too long, so instead of making everybody wait around for that to materialise, I've decided to cut to the chase and release the goods already.  Not right now though, since I said I'd put out a last call before the price goes up.  So let's say Tuesday or Wednesday next week (East Australian time), barring any snags.