I always liked Kyonko's since they did custom texture to make the hair detailed + good body and face overlays, also generally good body proportion to begin with
Working from existing cards helps a lot, I've tried making characters from scratch but putting hairstyles together piece by piece is pure hell and I have nothing but respect for the people that do it, that's the reason why I label my cards as edits and credit the original author, once you have a solid foundation the process goes much more smoothly. As far as making heads and faces you should get as many reference pictures from the source material as possible and keep in mind that translating a 2D image to a 3D model is not going to be 100% accurate, this applies to characters from anime or games like Nikke or BD2 where the originals are just illustrations and many times not consistent in terms of proportion. I would suggest just opening a few cards that you really like and playing around with the sliders and you'll eventually get a feeling for it If you have any specific questions I can try to help as best as I can
Thank you so much for giving your thoughts dude! 🤝 The one question I really have is just workflow. I know everyone has their own style of working with Koiktasu, and most answers I do see is "you'll get a feeling for it" or "it comes with experience" which is an understandable answer because it stems from experience of the individual. But I'm actually stuck on getting this "feeling" coz I have no idea what else to do. Maybe something more like how do you mash everything together with multiple cards even with multiple references?
You are pretty much the guy I'm looking for because you are getting resources and making edits from existing cards. But I'm doing the same thing, and even I'm literally struggling to get something I like. 😂
The DOLLHOUSE doesn't share their edits so making it myself is my only option now. There are two cards in particular that I want to edit to get their their look because I do like their style which I'm trying to copy.
There are a few others, but I'll limit it to these two because they are the biggest difference to what is available. Both Samus and Rosaria don't have anything close to what is being shown in the pictures so I figured that I can make it myself. Two problems, first problem is the current set of cards. If you look up Samus Aran or Rosaria, you pretty much not going to get anything like it. Even some of the latest posts for their cards don't look like this. Second problem, even with refereneces, getting the sliders to match what I'm looking at.
The biggest example that is prefect for what I'm going for is your Chun Li.
Out of all of your cards you've released, this has got to be the biggest jump up from what is availble when searching for Chun Li in Pixiv, kemono, bepis, or Google. For real bro, this has got to be one of THE BEST Chun Li cards ever. This is where I was truly impressed and was inspired by your work. The style of P. Jackson that was used was absolutely perfect for this and I didn't know I needed a Chun Li card until I saw yours. (maybe Cammy next 😋)
This is pretty much what I'm going for. You really make good edits dude. Any advice to getting something similar to your workflow is what my goal is.
spoiler tag to prevent an unnecessarily long post in the sharing thread
It's have been 1 month and no one ever gonna share harada work. Fine, I'll do it myself. and this is gonna be my first time also last time i will do this.
However, when I tried using these cards, a bunch of required mods were missing, which made them perform incompletely. This gave me an idea: why not bundle the mods with the cards to make them more accessible? After working on it for a few hours, I realised the task was fully massive for me to finish alone.
I reached out to Stigma for help, and his generosity exceeded all expectations.
He worked at an incredible pace to finish the project in just two days. Despite his hard work, he humbly shared the credit, noting that "Grok helped a lot".
His selflessness has given me a newfound confidence: there are always people willing to lend a hand. If our forum is a starry sky, people like Wmfrpa, Imai San, tnk.vera, Stigma, tomo110105, Cogito, KK DONALDS'S, Eudxus, Slpooderr, Malokimsa, mimicozzz, kayamiasako, hyperintrovert, fucksssss.......(hope I do not spelling their names wrong) are the stars keeping the darkness away.
In my eyes, if Wmfrpa is the bright moon, then Stigma is a Red Hypergiant—perhaps quiet in his brilliance, but possessing incomparable strength and dedication.
Though my contribution is modest compared to theirs, but I take great pride in capturing their radiance through my pen (keyboard).
Thank you, A_Wmfrpa_Fan. You see, in the past I was just another lurker on VK, and sometimes on F95, I never made any requests, but I also never helped anyone, not even with simple reuploads. At the time, I thought it was unnecessary, since other friendly faces existed and helped, but over time most of those friendly faces started to disappear, but I really don't want Koikatsu to become like HS2 or CM3D, unfriendly to newbies and full of lazy authors with crazy prices. So now I try to help too, be part of the friendly faces of this community, you know?
Anyway, Wmfrpa shared his SuyaSuya 2024, now I will share my SuyaSuya 2025, and maybe another hero will share the full 2026 next year.
I brought this SuyaSuya 2025 because I really like Wmfrpa, Cogito and most chinese users of this forum (Like Gwgxhs, Yuleo, Dlcday2, Kaiser and so many other nice users), so this is my gift to them and everyone here. Happy Easter, KK.Now!
I typed a dramatic walltext about SuyaSuya a few months ago, it was just to discourage people here from buying it again... Sorry about that, I updated it to give info, give it another read if you want.
Thank you, A_Wmfrpa_Fan. You see, in the past I was just another lurker on VK, and sometimes on F95, I never made any requests, but I also never helped anyone, not even with simple reuploads. At the time, I thought it was unnecessary, since other friendly faces existed and helped, but over time most of those friendly faces started to disappear, but I really don't want Koikatsu to become like HS2 or CM3D, unfriendly to newbies and full of lazy authors with crazy prices. So now I try to help too, be part of the friendly faces of this community, you know?
Anyway, Wmfrpa shared his SuyaSuya 2024, now I will share my SuyaSuya 2025, and maybe another hero will share the full 2026 next year.
I brought this SuyaSuya 2025 because I really like Wmfrpa, Cogito and most chinese users of this forum (Like Gwgxhs, Yuleo, Dlcday2, Kaiser and so many other nice users), so this is my gift to them and everyone here. Happy Easter, KK.Now!
I typed a dramatic walltext about SuyaSuya a few months ago, it was just to discourage people here from buying it again... Sorry about that, I updated it to give info, give it another read if you want.
Oh yeah, seeing that Higashi archive image above me reminds me that I forgot to share the updated Ye Shunguang card back in December. I think he said he fixed her horn or something. I can't remember.
Higashi Ye Shunguang v1.2 only this card was updated, not her normal version.