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Preview Renders of Talia's First Animation!

 Hello everyone!  I consider Talia's first animation to be "next generation."  It is the first animation where I had doubled my computer's memory so I was able to use more and higher resolution textures (Note her skin bumpiness).  Also this animation is voice acted and it was recorded with new higher quali...

TOOTH AND NAIL!

Wow.  Just... Wow.  I've never seen my cloth system put up this much of a fight.  It was refusing to cooperate at every possible turn, and with fierce determination.  It really, REALLY did not want to get simmed according to the script.  But... I finally got it.  It took a lot longer than I wante...

Happy Holidays!

Hey everyone.  Hope you all have a great time.  Talia's shirt is simming now.  It's going very slowly.  Fortunately her shirt is only on for the first third of the animation.  It will probably take a few days to finish.

Meanwhile, here is a little test I did of shrink-wrapping skin with Storm. &...

Talia's Hair is Done!

And it only took all day!

(grumble grumble Storm will do this faster and better grumble grumble)

Getting There!

Talia is done.  I might want to try to finesse some goings-on in her armpit area but everything is now in-place.  What remains is her hair and clothing (before her top is ripped off).

This preview is a viewpoint not seen in the final animation, from behind.  Notice how the lats are pushed away by her arms...

Talia Milestone!

I've just finished animating her hands and fingers for the whole sequence; with one exception...  Where they interact with her biceps.  That's because I haven't make her biceps flex-able yet.  So that's the next step.  My intention is to push the envelope in bicep peak altitude!

Talia's Powerful Pecs Finished

Breasts, Arms, Lats/Traps not done yet.  But I'm getting there!!

Talia Update!

I've made various morph shapes for Talia's chest so she can bounce her pecs and flex them from various poses.  And I've just finished animating all of her pectoral animation.  Maybe I over-did it with the bouncing but somehow I don't think you will mind. :D

All I have to do now is sculpt the alternate flexed v...

Talia Progress!

Hello!

Here's what has progressed on Talia:

I've animated the scene's camera.  Then I animated her eyeballs.  Then her eyelids.  Then her eyebrows.  Her whole head is now full animated (and I am very pleased with the results).

Then I animated her breathing, including her fancy diaphragm t...

Liquid Assets

I did a test to see how well my new "Storm" simulator could do liquids interacting with animated models.  The answer is; really quite well!

Anyone want me to get Talia wet on her next animation? :)

Talia's Mouth Final Model

Here's the mouth animation transferred to the final model. :)

EDIT: I've just finished animating her eyeballs.  To finish her entire head I need to now animate her eyelids and eyebrows/forehead.

Talia Progress Report

Howdy!

I've been cleaning up / re-animating Talia's head and neck animation to more closely match the voice acting.  Adding little head bobs to accent certain words.  I've completed the first 4500 frames.  So roughly 1600 frames remain to be finished up.  After that I can transfer the mouth animation...

Progress!

Hope everyone in the US had a yummy Thanksgiving.  JonTron had a funny video on Thanksgiving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2dXQDNZxgY

I'm 5/6th complete with lip-sync!  Wanted to get it all done today but I'm pooped. ...

Getting there!

As you can see in the above image I am roughly 2/3rd complete with animating Talia's lip sync.  Have a good Thanksgiving for those of you in the US who celebrate that.

Just For Fun

Would anyone like to try and guess what she is saying here, based solely on the mouth animation?  If you guess right I'll put a gold star on your forehead*.

*If we meet and I have a supply of gold stars in my pocket at the time

Progressing On Lip Sync

Howdy!

Here's a sneak peek at Talia's voice along with some mouth animation.  I'm roughly 1/4 finished animating the lip synch as I type this.  She's got a cool voice, right??

Talia Update

I'm done editing down the audio and I have re-done the transfer of her leg animation to her final model.  More to come!

Splicing

Hey all...  I am 2/3rds done editing the raw audio recording into the animation's vocal track.  We sat in her car for 30 minutes last night, reading lines over and over to try and get the best read possible.  She's not a professional actor so it took a while.  This of course means editing all of this down ...

Talia's Skin And More!

I've just finished re-mastering Talia's skin textures.  Almost every part of her face skin was redone to go along with completing her body.

This render looks fantastic, it is using "image-based lighting."  Unfortunately this option is really slow.  I estimate the animation will need over two months of ren...

Talia News!

Hello!

I am in the middle of painting skin textures for Talia's body.  I thought it would be fun to incorporate the "skin size" weightmap I make for her skin pores to determine the size of her skin textures.  Working well so far.

ANYWAY...  I got responses from FOUR more la...

Talia Updates

Hi,

I've got her skin pores texture made for her entire body.  The replacement audio recorder arrived and recording sounds much, much better.  There is a tiny amount of noise in the uploaded test because I recorded this next to my computer (fan noise).  I've got one response from the ad I posted looking f...

Nailed It

Hello all..  I couldn't get much work done yesterday due to a long journey that needed to be made.  I'm almost done making the skin-size weightmap for her entire body; this is related to the skin pores texture in my previous posts.  In the meantime, here's a fun update on her fingernails.  Same was done to...

Pretty Pleased With This!

Still only on the face so far.

Skin Pores Update

Turns out I wasn't exporting the normal map correctly from Substance Painter.  Now I've got it right.  Time to see about making the texture look more organic / less uniform.

First Skin Pores Test Render

Hey all...

Here I am taking more advantage of the extra memory.  I'm making skin pore textures.  So far they are only on her face.  Those who are interested in the tech details read on..  If not, skip to the next paragraph.  I created a "skin size" weight map..  This essentially defines whe...

Unknown Recording Date

Hello,

I've just finished animating all instances of Talia's hands interacting with her legs.

Talia's voice actor told me she has only two days off a week and we can possibly record on Tuesday (later today).  I sent her an email yesterday asking, "Are we go for tomorrow?" but she hasn't replied. :/  If w...

She's Got Legs....

....and they're fully animated for the entire sequence.

Now that her legs are final I need to adjust all of her hand animations that interact with the legs.

Ready to record!

My stuff arrived today and I tested it out.  I bought a small digital voice recorder, a power supply for my lav mic, a cable, and a wind muff.  I can now record remotely.  Attached is my first recording; after post-processing.  It sounds very nice!  I probably sound like I have a cold still.

I'm...

Talia Animation Update News

Hello everyone!  First of all thank you to everyone who wished me well while I was tightly packed with mucous.  I'm feeling a ton better now.  Sorry for the disgusting imagery in my opening sentence.

Anyway I have just edited out all of the pauses in the animation that I mentioned in an earlier post. &nbs...

Retros (Redux)

I *THINK* I've gotten to everyone who had a retro request by now.  If you don't see what you were expecting, check your spam folder, and if you don't see anything send me a message and remind me of our arrangement.

Note if your request is Talia I'm still finishing her up! :)

Thank you everyone for your patien...