Sequence 01 - Next scenes - WIPs

Hello Everyone, hope you are doing amazing these last days of August.

Kahl here to show some WIPs of these shots from the first sequence. I'm currently working on the last three shots before the cycles of Neil stroking himself, and am happy to say we are getting the hang of this new process more with each completed shot.

The first GIF I'm sharing shows the latest version I just finished. The final animation is completed with only the manual lines and shadows pending (the few ones in there are dynamically generated).

The next GIFs show a breakdown of the process:

1. 3D animation: Animation using only the rig controls. Showing you how the 3D model looks without any shader applied. Watch out, poor Neil may look really cursed at this point D:

2. 3D animation with Toon Shader: Same as above, but using the Toon Shader.

3. Draw Overs: Like with the previous cycles, I make some sketches using the Toon Shader lines and colors as reference. In this case, I only considered it necessary to make drawings for the key poses.

4. 3D animation with sculpted frames and in-betweens: Using my sketches as reference, I sculpt the key poses first and modify some controls of the rig to get as close as possible to my drawings. After that, I in between these sculpted frames either with numeric parameters or by adding extra sculpted frames between poses. I also added more in-betweens and modified some movements to make them look as good as possible.

And that's how we got here! Like I previously mentioned, the next step is to add manual lines and cel-shading. I will be doing it just for the main poses since Chip is kindly helping us in-between those, as well as adding extra movements for drags and polishing details. He's currently helping us on that with the previous shots. I also included a WIP of this as the last GIF in this post.

We are still aiming to show you this first sequence fully completed by the first days of September. We are almost there!! And for the next one, we are thinking of a few extras for which we'll ask you for some input ;3 But more on that later. First, we'll focus on finishing this one as fast and good as we can.

Thank you all for your patience and support. We are very excited for everything that's coming and are working hard so you get excited as well. In the meantime, we wish you all the best.

Lots of love from all of us!

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