So the stereoscopic version of "Yumi Grows More" is down to less than 100 rendering hours to go. It's such a pisser this would have been done long ago if I had noticed that the skirt data was lost in the hard drive crash. Sigh. But now I have to put that aside as it is time to render Yumi damaging a car. ...
2016-12-31 16:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostCloth simulations are done! Huzzah! And I have to say... Sometimes I even impress myself! ;)
Glass simulations are complete!
Remaining steps: Cloth sim and final lighting and any background dressing.
2016-12-30 01:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Look at me kicking arse! Note in the image above the hair is not rendered, only the shadow of the hair.
I have wonderful, funderful, joyous news.. I could use some after hearing about the loss of our Princess. :(
Yumi's skin is complete! What remains are sims for hair, cloth and glass.
Hope everyone had a festive holiday!
Yessss! I had some trouble getting the new rigging technique to work for a day or so. Thanks to some help from a brilliant friend, I have got it working perfectly now! See the attached sample. What you see is Yumi's back sliding over the surface of her ribcage. ...
2016-12-26 15:17:17 +0000 UTC View PostHere's an update on my checklist to completion:
Primary Character animation... DONE!
Car Damage... DONE! (not including glass)
Camera animation... DONE!
Secondary character Animation (eyes, jaw, etc)... DONE!
Muscle Growth & Flexing... DONE!
Remaining tasks:
Hair Si...
2016-12-22 04:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostPrimary Character animation... DONE! (including hands & fingers)
Car Damage... DONE! (not including glass)
Camera animation... DONE! (Including stereoscopics and shaking)
Remaining tasks:
Secondary character Animation (eyes, jaw, etc)
Muscle Growth
Hair Sim
Rig pectoral and ba...
2016-12-19 22:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
Just letting you know I'm still banging on the animation. I am creating the car body damage as I finish cleaning up the remainder of the character animation because they are quite interdependent. I am thinking this phase will be done tomorrow... or perhaps the day after (I hope). Then comes breaking ...
2016-12-16 22:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I've been banging this animation. Hard. The main character animation will probably be done in 1 or 2 days. Then comes all the breakage effects.
Meanwhile.. I did some experiments with some different techniques.. Attached is a little test I made. Could result in some interesting new ...
2016-12-12 14:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostI am transferring & cleaning up the motion capture rig over to Yumi's rig part-by-part. It's exciting to see her come alive.. Again. :)
2016-12-09 13:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
2nd time was the charm. Motion capture recorded and the first clean-up pass is complete. Here's a little preview.
2016-12-08 10:02:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I recorded two motion-capture scenes today. One for the next Yumi animation, another for a friend. The one for my friend exported perfectly but the one for me did not work. I think the same exact thing happened last time! Seems this new technology is not without flaws. Oh well. I will record t...
2016-12-07 10:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I am hoping to have the car finished by the end of the day today. Here's a look at it in it's current state. Mostly done.
2016-12-05 12:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostI just ordered a new hard drive to replace my dead drive. Also a new SATA cable... And... A light for my bicycle. They will not be here until the 6th. On the bright side, this was probably the best time of year to have to buy a new hard drive.. Prices are probably discounted for the shopping season.
I j...
2016-12-02 11:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The subject pretty well covers it. :)
2016-12-01 20:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe beautiful, pectoriffic, dirty-blonde Naomi makes her debut in this animation. Please bear with me as I finish up the animation.
2016-12-01 02:24:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt's in the wee hours of the morning here.. I finally got it all done and some of you have the animation in your email. I'm pretty fried. I need to get some rest then I will send it out to the rest of you right after I get some rest. Sorry for the extra delay. :(
2016-11-30 13:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The model looks nice already, but it needs changes for what will happen to it.. And it has no interior; that's a problem.
Looks like the animation will be done rendering in ~35 hours.
I posted a little teaser featuring Naomi's buff body on DA.
I really, really like how Naomi looks. Yumi was really good too, but I think this is far and away my best work. What do you think, would you like me to make the next animation Naomi's firs...
2016-11-26 12:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
Just finished re-rigging Yumi's hand for future animations (and for future characters). This was using my new weight painting system.. It is overall better but the most noticable improvement is the rigging for the padding where the palm meets the fingers. This looks much more natural.
On the...
2016-11-22 02:39:43 +0000 UTC View PostEarly today the main render pass was completed. And the hair render pass was about 12 hours from being complete.
A lot happened since then. My hard drive died. It was the drive holding all of the rendered frames as well as other files for the project. As my drive gasped it's last breaths I managed to sa...
2016-11-20 09:41:15 +0000 UTC View PostI just discovered a new breakthrough with rigging.. You may remember I was stuck trying various methods for getting muscles to slide over the suface of, say, the ribcage. To be fair I didn't "discover" it.. Someone told me about a feature of a plugin I purchased a year ago that I never knew about! All this time and t...
2016-11-17 23:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! We've just passed the 2/3rds completion mark on the first render pass. It's looking sooooo good! I'm looking forward to seeing her with hair once the 2nd pass is done. :P
I'll keep you all posted! Thanks for being patient!!!!!!!
We are within arm's length of hitting the halfway point of the first render pass. I told you it was a biggun! :D
