Character Debut 01 - Shouko

My first character is complete, her name is Shouko!



This is the first character I've made from scratch in 3D after making a few 
based off MMD models and such. For my first character I wanted to make an 
"average" sort of girl, I have ideas for more eccentric and flashy characters 
but I wanted a good baseline to start with to make sure that I can make a basic 
character look good. She's roughly based on the default character from 
Artificial Academy 2.



It took quite a while to get to the point where I found my character to be 
more appealing than the AA2 girl, but by now I think I've reached a point that 
I'm happy with. Of course, AA2 came out in 2014 so it's not the most impressive 
of achievements, but I'm happy with how she came out nonetheless.

I'd like to make a few more characters to make sure I really know what I'm 
doing, and then start to use them in photo sets and animations! I'm sure it 
will be awhile before I get there, but I've been having a lot of fun so far 
learning 3D and I'm happy that a productive hobby like this is gradually  
starting to take more and more of my time instead of video games. I've come to 
realize over the past months just how much time 3D production takes, and I 
can't afford to be wasting too much time if I ever want this to seriously be 
my career. Sometimes I just look back at how slow I was in the past and laugh, 
and nowadays I'm starting to always think about how I can make things 
simpler, quicker, and more efficient for myself.

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