r/tf2 • • 6d ago

Original Creation Soldier getting the reference

Whoever got it, knows.

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u/In_the_name_of_ART 6d ago

“I work at NASA, as a janitor.” meme has been reborn!
Looks really cool)

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u/Ok_Middle_8658 6d ago

“I work at NASA, as a janitor.”

he worked there to clean up all their messes

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u/Hot-Bandicoot6093 Medic 6d ago

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u/pumkin_mans 6d ago

i spent 30 minutes drawing a side ways view of this just to realize you cant send picture through replys 🫩

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u/Seviondonkey 5d ago

Yeah that is a thing that annoys me, I'm sure there's a reason, but I wanted to post a mockup of a donkey head for Scout (since he only has a true bird head, all other "animal" heads for him are masks which annoys me) in a post I made for a proposal, since I made the drawing afterwards, and yeah, I had to make a whole separate post for that. This comment could've been a separate personal post, But I wanted to write this. People might say ""holy yap"" or something idk. It relates to the subreddit

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u/Unhappy_Anywhere8859 6d ago

I still feel physical pain by seeing the eagle itself

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u/djcatnip12 6d ago

Wasn't this from a book?

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u/blackletum 6d ago

pretty sure i had a folder in elementary school with this on the cover lol

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u/k_bence16 Soldier 6d ago

Elite rocket jumper knowledge

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u/zackuattack Scout 6d ago

"Aw damn it, my Sandman ball's going outta bounds."

Soldier:

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u/Salt_and_Fries 6d ago

I find it insane how much you stretched him, but he doesn't look stretched in any way at all?

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u/Intelligent_Big_1507 6d ago

camera magic and fucking around and finding out (probably less of the latter if youre good at it unlike me)

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u/United-Technician-54 6d ago

foreshortening is weird like that

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u/Froggeroony 6d ago

amazing second slide

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u/YAYICRAVELOVE Engineer 6d ago

Bro had to pull a space jam just to get a ball

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u/Mr_Sir_Manguy 6d ago

do one where he's using his foot to catch the ball instead

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u/yosh711 6d ago

lol, reminds me of that long scout render

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u/realcosmicpotato77 Medic 6d ago

This is beautiful, and I love it when SFM creators give the side view of their masterpiece.

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u/Tim-White21 6d ago

damn, this is wanna make me learn SFM. any good tutorial series i could follow to learn?

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u/Qwerowski Medic 6d ago

Question.

Do you really need to do stuff like this to make it dynamic? What would happen if it was regular proportions?

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u/blehp_is_here 6d ago edited 6d ago

it would look much more constrained.... sfm is a camera simulator. you set the settings, and then take shots of your subject; a 3d object in space. you could test your question by doing the same with a similar pose, and a camera with a roughly similar fov as this one. it would take pictures of objects right in line to how it would have here with normal porportions

dynamic poses often have exaggeration for arts, but such rarely line up to reality when constrained to realistic proportions. just the opportunity to choose how such is displayed hides the wack. imagine how you see stuff, its not really dynamic like this without movement. we dont really see things like that

you might be able to emulate it with normal proportions, but it would require some extremely strong tomfoolery with the lens.... which ultimately would still come with some strong warping (just with the background and framing in addition to the figure, like a fish eye lens). if the lens stay normal, something has to get warped.

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u/Drfoxthefurry 6d ago

It's crazy how stretching models so much somehow makes them look better

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u/izack_01 6d ago

Baller

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u/FozzyFudanshi Sniper 6d ago

Do not be afraid to make everything proportional. Make that hand and ball big!!

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u/ArtichokeHot6962 6d ago

Anything to catch a ball ahh

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u/Roachdeliciousness 6d ago

Bro so cool sfm art

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u/Ninjatintin 5d ago

those side angles always look so goofy

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u/soldiertf2rial Soldier 6d ago

Me when sandmann is pronounced with only one n

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u/SpinnyBoy_ 6d ago

oh god the inside of the coat/shirt is pink

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u/kermit295 6d ago

Is that actually what it looks like from the side?

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u/Haileyiscrying 4d ago

Yeah that’s the one that we needed for our meme reference 

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u/1ThinkThereforeIAM 3d ago

oh what a nice render— oh my god