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Hey everyone, I hope you're all well.

Progress has been a bit difficult this week. I've been working on the animations I mentioned last week, but it's taken a little more time than I hoped. Daz studio just plain sucks when trying to do anything where you want objects to appear to touch and interact with each other. Pretty much anything I want to do has to be a custom morph that I have to create and import into Daz.

That said I've got the first animation done and it's rendering now. I'm happy with it for the most part, I couldn't quite get the exact look I was hoping for but that may simply be down to the size of the objects being animated :).

I'm working on the second animation now but I've had to do some other things first. I've been using a custom mesh (geograft) for the characters beasts so I can import them into blender at a higher resolution than if I had just used the base character mesh. I realized I needed to do this when I was playing around with simulating Nikki and Karen squashing the breasts and such earlier in the year. I've mainly used it on Ellie so far to make her boobs look squashed in by her top.

This has worked reasonably well but one problem I've noticed is that as I made it a single mesh for both breasts and because I use a setting in blender that simulates pressure, if one breast gets squeezed it causes the other to inflate :P. Not a problem if things are perfectly symmetrical but I'd like to not have to restrict myself like that.

The solution was just to create a geograft for each breast separately, only I forgot how I did it the first time months ago and kept running into problems with UV mapping and weird distortions, but I've manage to resolve that now.

I also created my own custom nipple morph. There are nipple assets on the market but they use their own geografts that would mean I can't use my own.

 It's simple but still better than the default nipple shape that looks kinda undefined I think.

I did fun 4k renders of Misato this week. In my head she is of Japanese heritage but this outfit is perhaps more chinese in style? I don't know, I'm not an expert on asian culture I'm afraid, I hope she isn't too offended.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy and that's all I have for you for now.

Thank you all as always and take care.