You have played with tools, investigated models, joined competitions, read a hundred articles. But have you tried building a pet for yourself, to live on your desktop and assist you as wanted? When we travel into pet territory, we introduce an entirely new set of skills. Some of us have those skills, some do not.
AI can get you going with a basic model built with cones and spheres. But that is not really what you wanted, is it?
Blender templates can provide the next level starting point for the re-working of your pet, because you only want the finest, of course.
But that is not good enough either, is it? Absolutely not. You need custom fur that glows, and a bushy tail that emits light in dark conditions.
There are some things that AI can do, but artistic license is limited to human hands.
A long time ago, I had taken some game design classes at the Academy of Art in San Fransisco, which was an amazing thing to experience as a teenager. I'm from midwest USA, so of course, California is 'cool'. haha. Remember when Maya had only been around for a few years, and it took 24 hours to render a simple 5 minute scene? Yeah, I was there. I experienced the slow rendering in real life. (It existed, kids!) We have so much power and speed now, and we do not even realize it.
Yesterday I started on an early morning mission to un-derp my catbot. Original Catbot is the biggest derp in all the land. How can you not laugh? XD But he was a placeholder, a face for my desktop harness. Catbot was very much needed.
And as for Catbot V, I'll just say he is in progress. Catbot V is a huge jump from prompting AI to placing hair tufts on a cat in blender. When I decided Catbot needed to jump to the next level, I did not exactly realize I was signing up for learning about geometry nodes, or placing individual tufts on it's skin. It is time consuming and I have been at it for over a day. 2.8 million individual triangles to render.. on just the white fur! (I have since turned the density down.) Oops. Am I going to be the reason my graphics card melts? I guess we will all find out. XD
GO CATBOT! GO!
I had to modify the leg to make sense, the shock absorbers were not connected to anything, a toe was missing, and it was positioned strangely. I want my fantasy world here to make sense. π Some things require a human eye and a bit of surgery. Catbot is doing well, but I'm about to take a break from all of this fur!
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