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[Update] Sweaty Summertime Shrinking - Animating the climax

Added 2025-10-30 00:30:41 +0000 UTC

Animated another set of shots: finishing up the climax and leaving only the 5 shots for the ending as the last (though they'll still be a lot to do afterwards as well).

I was hoping to squeeze in some shot corrections (orange and red shots) as well, but this was a rather rough month in terms of getting stuff done, so I settled with just animating the shots I'd marked for this update.

Even with these new ones I'm already picking up small bits and pieces I want to correct on re-watch, but at the very least the bulk of the animation work for this one is almost done now.

A new climax:

In terms of major changes, the big one is replacing the old climax (though I've kept the original as a sort of lead-in shot to this new addition).

For the original version of the shot it was one of those cases where an idea ends up not translating well into motion; with it looking like Hugo was getting his head repeatedly and awkwardly bonked against the floor (which wasn't the vibe I was aiming for).

So, I switched that out for this new in-between the legs shot, which gives a much nicer view of Hugo's cock bouncing up and down as he gets pressed to climax under Lug's thrumming index toe. Cleaner. More readable. And I'm still able to convey a lot of expression just via his feet and toes.

As a side-note, I've been liking the idea of all the shots where Hugo is completely enclosed by Lug's toes being shown with this kind of low-light night-vision look, so I'll be going back to set up something similar for other such shots in the future scene-building + lighting passes.

Obviously there's something very important currently missing from this climax shot and I will be returning to do all the necessary liquid simulation stuff once I've finished up with the last of the main animation pass.

Updating footprint materials (WIP):

Something else I've been working on is reworking the custom footprint setup from last update. The old version's height map relied on a combination of stencilling and hand-painting, which is very time consuming, so I wanted to try and make something that was at least semi-procedural.

After a lot of messing around I managed to figure out a combo of geometry nodes + shader nodes setups that works rather well (still a work in progress):

I'll still need to bake this to an image map to hand-paint in the actual whorls (the centre swirls of fingerprints and toeprints) but this approach will save me a lot of time and is much easier to transfer to other models too.

What's coming up next:

I'll be jumping back to working on Perfect Parking Spot some more, specifically finishing up the rest of the destruction stuff for shot 4 and getting it ready for doing smoke simulations.

Depending on how much I can get done this time I may double up on updates for Perfect Parking Spot before jumping back to working on Sweaty Summertime Shrinking some more, but I'll let you guys know about what I settle on in the next update.