Welcome to October Patrons! #ItsTime (Animaton/OLL Updates)

Hello OLL Patrons! I hope you're all doing great. :) 

ANIMATION QUALITY UPDATE

This month's animations are much more improved in terms of animation quality/fluidity. Of course, I aim to do much better but I think I can say that this month's animations are a lot more fluid than they were in the past.

With natural physics not being in TS4, I really tried to sit down and learn how to mimic the movement of the sims character breast bones.

In theory it seemed simple (and I've seen many creators successfully pull it off) but during this learning curb I found so many ways of doing it. So I decided that instead of delaying the release of this month's animations, I would distribute the different 'breast bone animation styles' within different animations and have you guys let me know which ones you liked the most. 

NB. Also, always remember, if you don't like the breast movement at all, you can remove Denton's Breast Movement 'package' in the WickedWhims folder/set and they won't move in-game. 

Anyway, when preparing for the release of OLL's October animation set, I had to do a complete overhaul on my workflow and my animation style whilst still keeping the aspects which many of you guys like. 

My aim was to push the flexibility and fluidly of movement of my sims to the maximum. So hopefully, you'll notice a lot of things which make your sim characters appear more life-like.

(i.e. 

• Breathing 
• Blinking
• Reduced Stiffness
• Increased Flexibilty
• Smoother Movements

So I'm really hoping that you guys like it.

SAUNA & KITCHEN COUNTER ANIMATIONS ARE HERE!

Now, last month I asked you guys which animations you'd like to see. And as you'll see below, 'Sauna' barely overtook 'Kitchen Counter', so Sauna animations were the first thing I started working on BUT seeing as 'Kitchen Counter' got "69" votes, I though, hey, why not add it to this months animations. :P

SPECIAL LOCATIONS & CRATES

Last month, I also made a poll which asked you guys which 'Special Locations' you guys would like me to make animations for. I am really hoping to get around them next month (#hope) but with the ideas I had, I quickly realised it was going take a long time (and wasn't going to be possible this month) so I hope you guys don't mind the wait.

Instead, as many of you guys will know, Redabyss has been helping me out in the past and he suggested that I made a few animations using some crates which can be found with the Get To Work EP. I hope you guys like them when they're released.

HOW TO MAKE OLL ANIMATION SUGGESTIONS/REQUEST

I haven't yet got the point where I feel comfortable accepting animations requests mainly because of my crazy my life is at the moment. So as soon as I get a comfortable, I hope I can make a tier for personal animation requests.

In the meantime, please feel free to put your animation requests in any of the comment sections (especially if you're a patron). I read all my comments but just note that I never usually make promises. Mainly because normally I don't know if I can do an animation, until I've actually done it. :P

FINALLY

Lastly, I would just like to say thanks to all you guys who have been loyal and have supported me so far, I am extremely grateful always and I hope your experience playing TS4 has been enhanced with my work. :) 

Enjoy the influx of animations previews and downloads coming up! 

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Link to release dates: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14721079/