figured it was about time for a bio post...

Merk/Danny

old, Canadian, still can’t ride a bike

agender, he/him

professional-ish college trained 2D/3D artist

2D - character design/illustration, portraits, BG painting and layout

3D - sculpting, retopo/modelling, textures, rigging, Python scripting (I try)

COMMISSION INFO - https://dannyt.carrd.co/

Gumroad - https://merkygloom.gumroad.com/

FR - Merk #48127

Discord - merkygloom

Twitter - merkygloom I do not consent to have any of my content used for AI/ML model training.

Nearly done with Batrat's setup!

Please help me decide

Flight Rising art

another WIP of Batrat featuring some wing controls. Had to do away with the arm-wings as they looked really dumb for a PC player like me, so they're on the back now, and fully controllable!

Blendshapes time! I think I've finally got the head-seperation process down to a science. Might write a script to make it quicker later :P

Background comm

Texture WIP for Batrat

Batrat's sculpt is done, time for retopo!

WIP watergun, ready for highpoly and texture

new VRChat base soon!

Lowpoly ice cream truck - still image renders

Modelled in Maya, textures in Substance Painter. Original concept by Alexandr Krainuk

Lowpoly ice cream truck - turntable render

Modelled in Maya, textures in Substance Painter. Original concept by Alexandr Krainuk

Retexture commission of the Draconian avatar for VRChat. Model by alber

3D printable character sculpt of Storm the winged lion - still image renders

3D printable character sculpt of Storm the winged lion 🦁