I decided to share the current stylization progress on my socials. It’s already usable for animation, so now I can gather more feedback and figure out what to improve, fix, remove, or add based on the comments.
Today I was thinking that with the release of the new version, I’d finally be able to continue working on stylization in Cycles. But they postponed it to another date, which means I have to delay my work too... I really can’t wait to bring my idea to life and start making animations in the new style but it's impossible in current version cause of annoying bug with custom shaders.
I’ve built a setup that works perfectly in Eevee, but unfortunately it doesn’t work in Cycles because of a bug. The good news is that this bug has already been fixed in Blender 5.0, but it’s currently in Beta until November 5.
Since I use Cycles for my main projects, I decided to pause work on the stylization for now and continue once the stable version is released.
Today I finally converted my entire fur system from a particle system to a geometry nodes–based one. Visually, there should be zero difference, but geometry nodes will give me much more flexibility for customization and animation.
