Working on my first cutesy model--curious how to make eyelids for dot eyes?
I adore dot eyes for cute things, but I wonder if it works better for 2D than 3D animation? How does one rig eyelids for dot eyes so they can be expressive? Cos it seems that mainly eyelids don't show with dot eyes UNLESS the artist is showing some expression.
Anyone here have some experience with dot eyes in 3D modeling animation?
In other news, working on this strawberry, which is the first cutesy model I've ever done for the first cutesy story I've ever written. The reference image is not mine, I found it on the internet, but it gave me confidence to flip the berry upside down and learn how fabulously dumpy strawberries are! The cutest form.
All the tutorials I found on strawberries used the sphere and then shaped, but it's so much easier with the Laithe tool, so I suggest that instead.
Most tedious part so far: the seeds for sure. You'll notice how many are sticking out and others are buried. Just took some finesse on the inflate-sub to work that out. Then getting this slime to a shape I liked (a lot of experimenting videos I did not include in my time lapse).
I'm working on getting in the rest of the leaves now that I have my feet leaves more or less shaped and sized. After that its all details and textures and painting... but yeah, I really gotta figure out how I want to deal with this little berry's eyelids! Give me your tips!