December 26, 2025

Work in progress

Work in progress of my new/revamped pony model.

The new pony base model is almost done. I am going to wrap it up after I'm back from the holidays in January. There are a few things left to do on it, but I wanted to make a small post before then just to show what I'm working on at the moment. When the last features are done I am going to make a big post where I go through all the new features for the model. So expect a wall of text when that drops.

Currently I just have a few features left todo:
Face rigging, so I can do lots of varied expressions and nice lip control.
Muscle sculpt, shoulder, neck and rear muscle/tendon details.
New eyelashes, I want to try make eyelashes out of fine hairs this time around to give it a consistent look with the high fidelity mane.
Magic rear tattoo + eye colors!

I hope to be able to make a lot of new characters going forward, which I either use to make image sets or animation variants with. Here's a sneak peak at a new character that was being used to test some cloth physics with, can you guess which based on the silhouette?

I attached two videos below for a 360 view of my current work in progress, which will get the additions I wrote above by the time I make my next finalized post.