These 3D Characters Will Come to Haunt Your Nightmares
Eye-pleasing ugliness to rival Kotte Animation's works.
Hoping to make viewers uncomfortable, 3D Character Artist JM, known as Main_Arachnid_4080 on Reddit, has unveiled a collection of facial sculpts that, unlike many other digital characters we here at 80 Level usually spotlight, aren't meant to trigger your pleasure receptors, but rather poke at something far less explored: humanity's innate morbid curiosity.
Embracing the concept of "eye-pleasing ugliness" in the spirit of Kotte Animation, JM's creations depict heavily distorted human faces that one could say teeter on the edge of the Uncanny Valley – disturbing, sure, but laced with just enough absurdity to be comical instead of horrifying. According to the artist, each model takes about three hours to sculpt, retopologize, and rig using Blender, with JM hinting that at least some of these adorable monstrosities were made for a work-in-progress animation.
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