The Heat Updated - Animation Update!

Heyo!
If you don't wanna read about the animation stuff, then the comics are starting back up this week as promised! Here's the new drop from The Heat, thank you SO much for your patience 🥰
https://nexycomics.com/2024/06/25/the-heat-currently-releasing/

Animation update:
Back from a week of grinding this animation pipeline... God DAMN did I hit a lot of road blocks!
But this week was SORELY needed, cos I can't imagine how long it woulda taken me to get THROUGH them if I wasn't able to solidly work on it like this, so thank you all for supporting me in pursuing this whole new avenue of work! 😘💜

And I am getting through these roadblocks! One of the MAJOR helpers over this time has been my good friend SpungyJacket who is a Blender Goddess and a WEALTH of knowledge and an amazing shoulder to cry on when things go wrong... I've shed a lot of tears on them over this time 😅
THANK you Bestest Spunge! 💜
If you wanna see their work (lots of superhero merging and TF fun), you can see it on the Tweeter and support their Patreon if you like what they do:
https://twitter.com/Spungyjacket
https://www.patreon.com/Spungy

As for where the project is at? Well I just today got over a MAJOR hurdle that I've spent the last few days on, so I'm feeling good with it.
It's not ready yet and still has a ways to go, but the bones of it are there.
I've recorded the mocap, recorded the voice track, got all the assets of Nexy's bedroom and Nexy herself (pic at the top of the post), applied the mocap and expressions, and adjusted a lot of materials for the new render engine.

So what's left is:
Adjust the lighting to look good, rig Nexy's hair properly and apply physics, convert the materials for it as well, tweak/refine the mocap sequence, render it all out to video, then edit the video together with some small sound design elements.

If I don't hit any other major road blocks, then I think I should hopefully have this to show you at the end of this week is my goal 😊

Thank you ALL again for the love and support , it genuinely means the world that you supported me to try something new like this 💜
The comics will also be continuing as normal this week so you'll see the next drop of Got ya Girl later on this week as well!

Much love,
Nexy xx