schooling saturday ~ hair decoration guide!
May 27, 2017 10:28:18 GMT -5
Jess 💌, Trisha 🌅, and 7 more like this
Post by ℓacey ☀️ on May 27, 2017 10:28:18 GMT -5
sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to planning out and decorating a more complex baby. below, Ꮭilibet 🍑 shares her methods of bringing a complex, tattoo-filled baby to life!
in this tutorial, i will be showing you the process i used to do the hair decorations on my baby, fern, from Trisha 🌅 . here is the end result:
to start off, i always always plan out in photoshop first so i know what i'm aiming for, with all the individual decorations on separate layers. then i hide all the layers but one so i can focus on the placement of that one pixel, as you can see in my photoshop mockup below:
so then i go into lnzpro and add a ball in, size 150, at the end of the hair code. you need to know the number of the ball to make it non rotating or the decoration will roll around all over the place! i pasted fern's hair code into excel to count the rows cause i was NOT about to do it by hand haha. then i added the number of balls to 138 to figure out which balls to make nonrotating (291-296 for fern!). then i just have a guess at where the first pixel goes. first i tried:
63, -50, -100, -50, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
and i realised i would need to cut up that tattoo into two parts to be happy with the placement. the key to the best placed crowns & arches is AS MANY PIECES AS POSSIBLE. which means it takes way longer but it's worth it. so then i tried placing the first one again:
63, -100, -80, -50, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
way too high and central...
63, -110, -50, -50, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
too high...
63, -101, -50, -45, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
close enough for now. time to move on to the next piece which i guess might be around here...
63, -60, -90, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 14, -1
oh no, the bottom half is getting clipped in her bangs. so i bring it forward...
63, -65, -88, -50, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 14, -1
i guess i might need to tweak the first one now...
63, -101, -60, -45, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
63, -65, -85, -56, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 14, -1
and again...
63, -90, -70, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
63, -60, -95, -50, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 14, -1
ok, i'm happy with the front view but not the side view. i think i'll place her other pixels and fix it after though, so i can see how they all work together. so i show the next layer in photoshop...
add a ball, and take a guess at the placement...
63, -28, -110, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 15, -1
not quite...
63, -20, -110, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 15, -1
yes! and also no... i'll fix the side view at the end though. time for the next pixel:
this one took a LOT of fiddling. i reckon you probably have the jist of my commentary by now so here are all the attempts & pictures:
eleven new piece
63, 60, -70, -55, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 16, -1
twelve
63, 60, 0, -55, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 16, -1
thirteen
63, 50, 0, -45, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 16, -1
fourteen
63, 60, -10, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 16, -1
fifteen
63, 60, -30, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 16, -1
sixteen
63, 60, -30, -28, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 16, -1
i followed the same steps for the flower & bee:
seventeen new piece
63, 48, -60, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 17, -1
eighteen
63, 48, -73, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 17, -1
nineteen
63, 50, -75, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 17, -1
twenty bee
63, 65, -80, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 18, -1
twenty one
63, 75, -85, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 18, -1
twenty two
63, 70, -95, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 18, -1
& then i felt like i could see the whole picture and figured out i just needed to move the pixels on the other side back a bit:
63, -90, -70, -40, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 13, -1
63, -60, -95, -30, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 14, -1
63, -20, -110, -20, 10, 244, 0, 0, 0, -1, 150, 8, 0, 15, -1
& she was done!! basically it's a process of opening the game, looking at the movement, and fiddling.
HAPPY DECORATING!!! <333333333
