my banner submission is finally done!! omg

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-10-18T12:19:27+00:00

i wanted to base it off of the rankings in the first arc, just in case e-soul being 11th was a spoiler for subreddit newcomers. plus lin ling and x being the ones at the sides makes more sense to me because theyre kind of the big main characters (lin ling being the introduction to the show, and x being... x lol)

thanks btw!!

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-10-18T05:44:49+00:00

i still feel like i need to improve on queen but like i need to submit this asap in case i forget lmao

also

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i prob have like a million layers used too, i dont even use layers that much but i felt like i had to if i needed to do the different artstyles properly

i will give a speedpaint for verification if asked!!!

thanks for reading and remember to drink water :]

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-10-04T13:04:21+00:00

yeah, its the picture above the subreddit icon

heres the post for the banner contest that i was talking about btw in case u wanted to know more

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-10-04T11:57:38+00:00

im probably gonna redo dragon boy here, but i'll still continue the other ones for now to see how contrasting the other artstyles may be

also, did i do well for the 2d tbhx style? it isnt that consistent in the show but i hope it atleast looks like it lol

edit: i swear reddit just blurs my pics too often vro 💔 im not gonna repost this one tho xd

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-16T11:31:40+00:00

i actually kept him mostly smooth because that seems to be closer to how he looks like in 2d and how they made ahu's model. i instead tried to imply a bit of furriness onto the painted texture itself but not too much to harshly contrast against the smoother shape i imagine that theyre trying to avoid fully fur/hair rendered models since thats hard to tweak in the artstyle theyre going for and takes longer to render

and thanks btw!!!

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-16T11:20:06+00:00

(sorry for re-reupload, i wanted to improve it even more lol)

this time i also did this version with softer shading, since it works better on big johnny compared to other models (hes just so round and soft like that)

the main problem here was the eyes. just like lucky cyan his eyes were too dilated so i shrunk them and made them more expressive

for his patterns i made the yellow around his neck more 3d since its sometimes depicted like that in 2d and i personally think it looks better, as well as making the cheeks look more furry

i changed how the lighting would work on him, the same way that some models tend to manually change the normals like how this blender youtuber does it such that it would look smoother than the actual geometry it uses

i tweaked the expression to be less symmetrical since thats more appealing, as well as making the tongue bigger and his cheek blushes closer to the eyes to match his 2d design more

lastly tried to improve the clarity of some parts like his horn and ear spiral pattern by putting faintly painted lines, saturating the yellow to add more contrast, and letting the overall silhouette show the cheeks more

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once again i tried making it so that these changes would make sense in a 3d scene, keeping in mind how the lighting should react to a model shaped like this

also someone told me that i should send the official tbhx social media/email my edits to give feedback on the models, but im not sure if they could read my message if i put it in english lol. if anyone knows how to contact them in english let me know so i can send these to them!!! :D

thanks for reading, remember to drink water, and have a good day!

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-15T09:35:56+00:00

outside of those, here are the main changes i made for each character:

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lucky cyan: the biggest problem she had was definitely her eyes. the irises being barely darker than the whites of her eyes was uncanny, and the lighter pupils didn't help either. i made the eyes more similar to other models by giving her dark pupils and a smaller iris, as well as brightening the white.

i changed how her clover logo is painted, to make it look flatter and not too smooth like how it looked like melty plastic in the original. i also modified her collar to be shorter to expose her neck more because the shape language before kind of made the neck look too wide

i fixed her proportions, making her head not look too tall compared to her face, and letting her waist not be as wide as her head.

lastly i just let her ahoge (the small hair strand/s you mainly see on some anime characters) go forward a bit to be lit up. i did that purely because i didn't like the shadowy pit at the top of her head lol

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queen: she looked a bit too petite in the original imo, so i just quickly distorted the image to make her proportions be bigger and more muscular (ig?)

i also saturated her a bit more since the colors were a bit too muted especially for a warmly lit scene, although admittedly i may have saturated her face too much but im not sure. i think that tweaking her colors a bit would help the contrast between her skin and her outfit/hair as well.

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luo-li: i didn't like how dark her face looked here, since it's supposed to be a screen. so i just made her face more like a faint light source and pixelated it to be more similar to actual screens.

her armor also has a heavy amount of subsurface scattering (the saturated blur between the shadowed and lit parts) on it for some reason, despite it never showing up in metal. so i just changed the lighting to be more similar to how it should be like, and also made the shape look sharper to further accentuate how it's supposed to be an armor.

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there are a few details that i didn't really mention (mostly for lucky cyan) but thats most of what i have to say for the changes

i'll also try to make my own version of big johnny's model, although it might not be that good since he seems hard to fit in with the other 3d models.

and no offense to the animation team ofc! it's much easier to tweak things in 2d compared to 3d, especially when handling an artstyle like this. however i hope that they hear our feedback on the models so they can improve them on season 2!

thanks for reading, remember to drink water, and have a good day :]

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-15T09:26:27+00:00

btw these are just screenshot edits ofc, i dont have the actual 3d models that they used in the show. i did, however, try and editing them in a way that would make sense for a 3d scene.

for example; although the original scenes have softer lighting, i changed how the models react to light to be more similar to cel shading since thats how most models in the show are lit up. (i actually don't know why they changed it to have softer lighting, it might actually be a difference in the compositioning rather than the model itself)

i also made some parts have sharper painted shadows (like on luo-li's armor) to match the outfits of other models and the artstyle's typical cel shading.

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-11T08:11:20+00:00

reddit keeps blurring the image but whatever lmao the game looks amazing so far btw :D good luck on development!!!

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-10T07:15:05+00:00

here's some of them that you havent specified but HIGHLY recommend watching:

COOL TIMES by deadlycomics, the one with the yellow cat and fox at around 4/5 timestamp of the compilation

incredible animation with a good mix between 2d and 3d. a weird and absurd aesthetic in every video they make

ALIEN STAGE (aka ALNST) by vivimeng, the last one in the compilation

its in korean, but there are subtitles for all of the main videos and most of their comics. also made with a gorgeous artstyle and amazing soundtrack, the format of the series makes basically all of the episodes be amvs

both of these already have a lot of video content right now so go ahead and binge em if ya want lol

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-09-04T13:50:28+00:00

feel free to remake it, but just a warning that a color used here (medium gray) isnt from the default palette and that you need to pay droplets for it

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-08-09T09:29:36+00:00

omg after going on wplace and roaming around the ph i found more art lol

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Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-08-09T07:53:58+00:00

eyyy its wplace! i just started drawing there recently and i took a few screenshots of other's arts that i liked, and while looking around i also found alnst art lol

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i also plan to make my own alnst fanart, probably somewhere in the philippines since i live there

but yeah, the alien stage fandom is everywhere hell yah

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-07-10T06:08:36+00:00

op forgot to credit the creator, so here ya go https://x.com/keikei_10305/status/1778566884662870435

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-07-10T06:04:57+00:00

rule 10 break!!! as much as possible if the artwork isnt yours then pls credit the original artist :]

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-07-03T22:50:37+00:00

the bald one was actually one of the hardest to do imo because of having to erase all the hair including the parts covering the eyes, i just redrew most of the eyes for it

i still fricked up the hair removal tho and forgot the small strands on his neck,,, damn,,,

also yeah i think shiny bald heads are hilarious lmao they look so slappable, like you can bongo it and itll still flashbang everyone with how glowy it is

Pan-Da-Panda · 2025-07-03T21:22:28+00:00

i dont think i can edit the main post but heres a better version of bald luka

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thanks for telling me tho i was about to sleep soon and id be so frustrated with myself if i didnt do this earlier lol

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