WIP Laimu Model updates (and also Ari i guess)

saw someone else's attempt to touch up her model a bit and suddenly had a moment of clarity and locked in so i guess we doing this now

LAIMI
New back hair, new accessories she was missing, redone the shape of the bangs after actually bothering to AlphaMask for once in my life to stop things from clipping, similarly also actually zoned in to do proper ColorMasking so instead of all her front her randomly being Green tips its now more or less just green where it actually should be (theres alot less green in her hair than most artists will lead you to believe) reshaped and angled the hairband which frankly always annoyed me being so far off the forehead and did some shader stuff so it looks less flat, slightly different ahoge, fixed the ears a bit, Friend drew up a little texture for the lime-slice on the necklace so it no longer has to be 7 items anymore, now its 2 and also shiny

ARI
The old christmas outfit i was gonna use for a christmas post that im clearly to late on by nature of losing time doing that other stuff lol but i prolly still gonna do a quick one atleast in the next few days, mostly just shader stuff to make it shiny and sparklier, standard hair is where the real big upgrades come in. it was previously 2 copies of the same hair which was really annoying for me to use as controlling that was a hassle and literally lagged my pc with how many physics slider would pop up moving it and also if left unchanged lead to those hairpieces clipping into eachother.
Now its a single copy of the hair and i offloaded all the color stuff into a copied material, also replaced what previously was a (old and low res) texture and made all the rainbowy shiny stuff happen via matcap/reflections so its a lot cleaner and shifts color dynamicly on viewing angle to match her constantly shifting colors a bit more
been procrastinating updating her but maybe i can actually throw this one out as a full on release soon


OTHER STUFF
Early 2026 has some exciting stuff lined up, theres new Deme stuff in the works and i got a couple new models lined up that may all be ready before the end of January even including Alfhilde and a whole new Froggyloch and potentially even more if time allows for it!
Also somebody dropped a card for smaller vtuber Ohitspiper the other day and i quite like her look so after im done with my current slate i might take a look at doing some work on that, for anyone who wants to just have it as is, here you go Piper - BepisDB, its pretty decent for what it is but also a disclaimer that one of the textures on the top broke when i loaded it into KKS aswell as the pigtail being displaced to far to the left
a little slow on raw content this december but hoping quality can make up for that!