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Published on May 16, 2015 9:59:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHJS26i7ssM

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Yahoo, I finally have my 2nd video upload! And holy moly, this took ages! Well, at least I did it! :^)

This is a character I made up in June 2012, which initially drew on paper . I did make her in 2D flash years ago and I thought "Hey, let’s make a 3D model of her in Blender!" Just one thing... This model took me over 100 hours!! I made a lot of mistakes (especially when building the mesh and vertex groups) but I kept persevering.

How I made the "Blender Megumi Test" was by doing a little bit of blender work every now and then to make the solution. But, wow, I started blender back in October 2013! If I ever make another Blender model I'll be sure to make them in PlayStation 1 standard, which I kind of wanted to do. But wait, there's a bit more I would like to say here.

I did make up a 50,000+ worded story a few years ago with this character in it and I made up about 15 more characters, so I picked "Megumi" since she's the first female character I ever made up. I have drawn 2 more versions of "Megumi" in 2D, but I chose this version.

Here are some cool notations I would like to say:

(1) I have made an armature object and tested the animation off screen and works very well
(2) I do have shape keys for facial animation, but I need to make more, as right now all she can do is half blink and fully blink
(3) I have tested this with cycles render and it renders VERY SLOWLY! Not joking, it took me 30 minutes to render this exact video, so if I ever make a 2 minute render, my laptop WILL CRASH. D: so I’ll have to do it on my PC at some point later, since I made this video on a laptop.
(4) This is my 2nd video upload. Next one will be in ages, so apologies for that!
(5) I want to also put her in unity3d but the program keeps crashing! Help?.
(6) I have modelled the inside of her mouth area so I can make her talk using shape keys. This will probably come next.
(7) I know I already stated this, this character is fully owned by me. She's not published in any official game/manga/anime etc.

Anyway, I had to access helpful tutorials and ask questions to nice youtubers, so special thanks goes to:

BornCG - Tutorials on vertex groups and IK rig bones and shape keys
VscorpianC - Basics to blender like importing 2D images, rotate, scale etc
Alexandr Khodanov - How to build the arms, legs, torso and head in anime style with his own examples

There were a few other helpful people I would give thanks to, but I can’t remember who they were but they each helped a little each. :^)

Edit: This video is NOT made for kids because I've shown this video to many adults, especially at work who are 20+ year old.