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4K/30FPS (h.264) 2023-05-18 00:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Autosave - Render Playblast

Here's a new playblast I finalized this morning! I sadly needed to cut a few seconds from the ending since the gif was getting a little large, oop!

This scene took admittedly a lot more out of me than previously expected. The long monologue was already a lot to animate on its own, but what really caused me to get stuck ...

That really hit the spot - Playblast

Here's a new playblast of Space Hero hitting the spot! Bunsen's, to be exact. :D

Bunsen is quite a bit heavy and chonky, so I tried my best to show his weight in this animation by making him wobble quite a bit upon impact. Will probably have to animate the nearby trees to sway a little more, but that's an easy fix!

Getting out of this forest - Playblast

After the animation preview ended with such a cliffhanger, I felt like I shouldn't wait too long with the next scenes preview!

First off, thank you so much on the feedback on the animation preview last week! Seeing so many positive comments has taken a lot of stress off my shoulders and made me even more eager to finish...

Halloween Special - Patreon Preview 2 (1080p)

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Here's the second Patreon preview of the upcoming Halloween Special!

There's still quite a bit of work to be done here, with multiple scenes still missing from th...

Halloween Special - Patreon Preview 2 (4K)

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Here's the second Patreon preview of the upcoming Halloween Special!

There's still quite a bit of work to be done here, with multiple scenes still missing from th...

Soon!

If you followed my Twitter, you might have noticed that I recently got Covid, which unfortunately put me into timeout for a couple of days. I guess with my last booster dating back to over a year, it hit me a little harder than I had initially hoped for, but I'm well on my way on the recovery and have recently gotten back to ...

Render Previews (Not Mobile Friendly)

(Give it a tiny bit of time for the gifs to load!)

Hey guys! As expected, rendering the preview version of the animation isn’t quite finished yet, but it’s progressing pretty well! I’ve taken the extra time to polish up a lot of the animation, which included some slight retiming, more accented motion, breathing, a...

New Previews, Render Workstation, Release Schedule

First off, happy new year! Hope you all had a blast going into January! I've been admittedly keeping a bit quiet since I've been grinding away on the new animation, which has seen a lot of progress in the recent weeks. The progress had admittedly been hampered a bit by the finalization of my new render workstation, but I'm gr...

The Empress' New Clothes - Chloe Updates

Here are some updates on Chloe's overall clothing design! Cid recently finalized her bra, loincloth, and wristbands and also managed to update her maw a bit with better geometry. I also sat down to overwork her tongue a bit as well yesterday, which now looks a tad squishier. Note that her mouth render still isn't final just y...

Anywho! - Extended Render Playblasts (not mobile friendly)

Here are some first in-progress render playblasts of the recent scene, as well as the next one. Note these are just rendered at preview settings with a lot of the features missing! Lighting, materials, and effects are a work in progress.

This month I finally managed to set up my new dedicated render node, which packs an...

Anywho! - Playblast and Intro Render Preview

Looks like Bunsen is getting a little impatient with out delicious Space Hero! 

Phew, this scene is still a little rough and not quite done yet, but I didn't want to move the preview to next month. I think it's save to say we finally made it to the fun bits, hah!

Hoh boy, seeing how many scenes there are stil...

Bunsen Introduction - Extended Playblast

Here's an extended version of the Bunsen introduction, showing a bit more banter between Bunsen and Space Hero before we get to the noms! Still going to rework the facial expressions of the last shot a bit, but we're pretty close to getting into the vorish bits. Hoping to be there by the end of the month!

Note that this...

Chloé - Anubian Jackal Redesign (No Clothes)

As announced in the last post, I had Chloé taken back to the drawing board for a redesign. Last month I had a lot of time to think about making her Zoe's sister, but eventually abandoned the idea after coming to the conclusion that it would be better to do another update of Zoe's model down the line, which should only clean ...

Bunsen Introduction - Playblast

Hoh boy, this animation was quite something! I admittedly needed to start over with this after thinking I was just able to animate a dragon walking out of my head, oop! Fortunately there's a decent amount of reference material out there that helped me getting the movement of his legs and torso right, which were quite a bit mo...

Intro Playblast, Render Previews, Bunsen Material Overhaul, etc.

Oh wow, who knew Space Hero's blaster doubled as a flashlight! This playblast finally concludes the intro, which admittedly took a little longer than expected, but unlike the intros in many previous animations this was almost entirely done in third person, which took quite a bit to animate (especially with walk cycles not bei...

Playblast, Tongue Material study, and Covid

First off, here's a recent playblast of the end of the Halloween animation's intro! I'm already a lot further into it, but since the animation is a bit more polished here I figured I'd show this part. I'm fairly close to the part where Bunsen gets properly introduced, so hopefully I should have some previews with him next mon...

Chloe - Facial Tweaks, Body Fat Deformer, etc.

With Cid having finalized his work on remodeling and retopologizing our vixen last month, I've been taking it from here to do more tweaks on her before she's getting fully rigged in October. Since the model turned out quite different from the original, I'll be sticking to making her Zoe's sister and treat her like a new chara...

Zoe 2.0 - Work in Progress shots

As promised, here are a couple more WIPs of Zoe's makeover, fresh out of Maya! As you've probably guessed from the recent teaser, this is a full makeover of the model that merely used the old version of her as a base. Her shape, topology and UVs have been completely remade. This includes body physique, hands, feet, and tail a...

Uncertain Walk (Playblast) & Zoe 2.0 Early Look!

Here's a first look at the first playblast of the upcoming Halloween special, which starts out with Space Hero nervously making his way through a seemingly never ending forest! I'm already a little further into the animation and aim to have the entire intro part done in two weeks or so. I'm also considering to start rendering...