I made a model of Specter from Arknights. Total time it took from model start to end of render + VRM delivery was 49 days.
render plus paintover.
shader update, was messing with hair and face normals here, extra bias masks, as well as using a more radical lighting technique to see if I could make the model look more flat and toon-ish.
shader update, using colors vs object base color to skew the way the shadow is casted on the character. This works by dividing the shaded painted color by the object base color, resulting in a usable bias map.