Vyxes

There are three ways I like to convey narrative information: dialog, composition and body language. Of the three, body language conveys the most about character.  Regardless of any complex backstory, a character's face and body in the moment shows who they really are.  For body language and facial expressions, I use a simple alphabet of general gestures: up and out, down and in, relaxed to tense. Up and out is the expression of retreat. Down and in is the expression of attack. As simplistic as this alphabet is, the combinations - along with direction of focus, context, and interaction - can communicate an elaborate story of character emotions. Finally, the amount of energy or engagement one has in the gestures is as important as the gestures themselves. Even without a distinct expression, tension alone says a lot about a character. While there are many ways to express tension in the face and body, I am always adding tension to the following four facial points: raising both

After years of playing around with slime effects, these are the methods that I use the most. Keep in mind, I only make still images. I don't know how any of this would work for animation. Also keep in mind, I use Blender 2.79b and Photoshop but what I do can be replicated in other modelling apps. While I'll provide other examples, what I'm mainly going to do is breakdown this slime panel. At this point, all my slime effects are either separate, simple models or a texture overlay to an existing model. SIMPLE MODELS I model most slime in a single plane, adding Solidify and Subdivision Surface modifiers to complete the shape. If I need to do anything more elaborate, I'll apply the Solidify. Then it's all about the texture and the UV Map. Any organic texture will do. The main trick is, to stretch the texture, shrink the space on the UV Map. With those methods in mind, having slime ooze over a body gets pretty easy. Keeping the model to a plane makes mapping it around a