Future Plans, Chloe Rigging, etc.

With the Bunsen animation being fully completed, I’ve already been shifting my focus towards the next projects, which I wanted to announce in this post.

July Mini Animation

For July, I’ve been planning on doing another mini animation, which is likely another continuation of the big tummy animations of which I’ve already done two. These two have been the most popular mini animations by far, so making a third variant of them was pretty much a no brainer. For this one we’ll see the return of Zoe with her room as the setting. I’m simultaneously going to work on other stuff, which is more middle and long-term related. This includes work on the new Chloe model, as well as environment work for her set piece.

Chloe’s Tease (Encounter 3 Prequel)

With Encounter 3 being such a massive project, I’ve been planning to precede it with a smaller animation that introduces Chloe beforehand. It’s also going to be a sort of test run for her model, as she’s going to be a completely new rig that I’d prefer testing in a smaller animation first. Encounter 3 is going to be a massive two part animation that is supposed to have well over ten minutes of runtime, tackling a project like this with a completely new, untested rig seemed like a recipe for possible disaster. Furthermore, I wanted to release another more compact animation before Christmas, and this would be perfect for it.

The animation would be a full POV experience where the viewer would slip into the shoes of one of Chloe’s servants, who had been caught stealing from her treasury. There would be no intro for this one, with the animation jumping straight to the action. It would basically begin with Chloe shoving the viewer down to the ground and laying herself atop of them, teasing them both verbally and physically. I’ve noticed that a lot of people enjoyed the scene in the first Encounter, where Zoe looms above Space Hero and licks him, before he briefly grabs her lip. This new animation would involve quite a lot of that, with the focus being mawplay, object vore, and teasing in general. Chloe would probably be a bit more dominant and growly since she’d be putting her servant into their place, it would however not involve any actual vore, as she’d only go as far as to take the viewer’s head into her maw, suckle on it and threaten to swallow them. It would be very sensual to say the least~!

Just like in the previous animations there’s going to be full dialogue, but it would be a bit more limited, as the focus lies more on the teasing than anything else. The planned runtime for this would be 1 – 2 minutes, it would however be quite dense with action.

Also, and please take this with a huge grain of salt, but once this animation is completed, I want to use this as a test project for possible VR shenanigans. Having moved to Redshift, I should now be capable of rendering 360° image sequences, and something as compact as this would be a perfect opportunity to test this out. The initial animation would release in a normal video format first before I’d give this a shot, though. It’s going to need quite a bit of internal testing and a substantial rendering effort to make a VR version, so it wouldn’t be something that I’d be able to release immediately afterwards. It would be more of a separate project that I’d sideline, and should it be successful and well-received, then I might do more with it in the future!

Encounter 3

Once this prequel animation is completed, I’ll move forward with the third Encounter episode, which is most likely going to be my most elaborate animation project yet. I’ve planned to split it into two, or perhaps even three parts. The first part would involve Space Hero getting introduced to Chloe, who would have a little chat with him in which she’d already tease him quite a bit. The plot would revolve around Space Hero needing an Ankh as a key item to progress. Of course this item would be in Chloe’s possession and she certainly isn’t just going to give it to him. Eventually she’d swallow it and challenge our hero to get it back, granting him a limited number of tries, which would lead is to the second part, in which Chloe would grow to the size of Zoe and get into a boss battle with him. Overall this animation is supposed to feel like a mix of the previous two Encounter episodes, involving a good deal of banter and teasing for the first part, and a full on bossfight with a ton of vore for the second part. Unlike Zoe, Chloe is supposed to have genie-like abilities, which gives her abilities such as size shifting, teleporting, hypnosis and a number of other abilities.

Note that the environment work I’m currently doing for the prequel animation will also be used in Encounter 3, as both animations basically play out in the same setting.

Chloe Progress

For the last 2 – 3 months, Chloe has been in the hands of Disregard, who I’ve commissioned for her rig. In regard to rigging he’s quite a bit more experienced than I am, plus this split of labour was quite necessary for me to focus on finishing the Bunsen animation and go straight to the next projects afterwards. The rig is pretty close to completion, and once I have it I’ll apply some last touches and get started with Chloe’s groom, which I’m hoping to sideline while making the July mini-animation with Zoe.

Here's a few tests that Disregard has given me in the recent weeks. He mentioned that he wants to do a mini animation of his own with Chloe to test the rig for errors!

I’ll be posting a free version of the alternative angles of the Bunsen animation in a few days, which will fully conclude this special episode. There have been a few people asking whether Bunsen makes another appearance in the future, but it’s very unlikely that he’s going to make more than a guest appearance in future animations. The exit surveys of the recent months spoke quite clearly, and adding the exodus of a third of my supporters, I can say with little doubt that this animation hadn’t been too popular, which is why I’ll stick to the regular format of female anthro characters going forward. Perhaps I had bitten off a bit more than I can chew with this animation as well, as Bunsen took significantly longer to animate than Zoe, which dragged out the production time of this animation way beyond its estimated window.

Here's hoping the current roadmap is to your liking! I really can't wait to get back to animating as I've been quite excited to get started with Chloe. I'll make sure to keep you updated! (: