NPC 019: A little surprise for the monster hunter

Who could say why Zaphus started to swell up. Perhaps all the years of dodging partner was finally catching up to her all at once. Or maybe someone finally surprised her and the karma of the universe was coming to give her exactly what she deserved. (And she absolutely loves it) One thing is clear, her ability to sneak around will certainly be hindered by the sounds of her newly acquired assets anytime she moves. Looks like she'll be settling down. Of course she won't be alone. In spite of her reclusive nature, there are always at least a couple of thay'valay women looking to help a mother to be.

I hate that this took me so long. Not that I was working on it feverishly, but more so that I was feeling the burnout. Which is really disappointing because I was very excited to work on this at the start. When I finished her design and was thinking about what I wanted to do with her I was very enthusiastic. But for some reason I just couldn't get myself to do more than a little bit. It might just be that there was so much I wanted to do that it crippled my speed. Near the end the speed picked up of course and now it's done. I'm still not sure I'm entirely satisfied with how she's come out. I mean, I am really happy with her general design and appearance! Quite a lot actually! I just worry that her shape came out a little bit too similar to jelly thay'valay though. I tried to avoid that by lengthening it and also having a dedicated growth set for the three B's. I also wanted to make sure she was plenty sizable by the end and ended up actually pumping her hips/butt up another size. I tried to add some more detail to the general animation like having her look left and right during the BE segment.

I'm also less than happy that I didn't animate her turn around like I did with Licorice, but I was asking myself if it really hurt the animation like this. I'd be curious how everyone feels and if it's really egregious I can go back and add a similar animation to Licorice of course.

Also was a little silly with the added portrait and gave her purple heart eyes to fit with thay'valay blood being purple. And yeah, there's a clean version uploaded of her anim too in case the snow makes it less pleasant to look at. (And you can see how awful my animation on her cabalest is)

But what's important is that it's enjoyed so I hope that everyone does just that!

For the filimuri lumberjack, I'm going to try something a little more simple to see if it helps with my speed. I do already have a general idea for her physical appearance and I'm thinking a tropical/water based species with a lumberjack would probably cut down coconut trees (Is that even really a thing? Going to look that up after I'm done writing this). Which kind of made me think of coconut milk. I wonder what would happen if you drank magicked coconut milk? Ven'drothe is already designed so all I need to do is animate the lovely woman having a little backblast and blimping as a result.