Big Gulpe - Polished playblast

Here's a more polished version of the last playblast with improvements to the overall motion, as well as some additional animation that simulates the rolling of Zoe's belly muscles. I'm quite happy with how it turned out, ohoho~

I sadly didn't have the time to render this out with the preview fur, as currently both my computers are rendering frames for the animation literally every minute I'm not using them. There was quite a bit of a screw-up earlier this month in form of a memory leak, which manifested during a lengthy 5000 frame sequence (native 60 FPS rendering will be the end of me). I always render as an image sequence, so this shouldn't be an issue, but I figured out then that whenever I'd close and re-open my project, Zoe's new dynamic fur would be in a slightly different position compared to last time, likely due to the fur system working with some sort of random seed. This became quite a bit of an issue with some of the render layers not properly aligning anymore. I didn't get around to fixing the issue, but managed to find a workaround by fading certain layers together in post-production. Fingers crossed that it's smooth sailing from here on!

Right now all the scenes for the preview version are animated and polished, with me mostly doing render and compositing work at the moment. I'm still hoping for everything to be in a somewhat presentable state until the end of October. There's still quite a bit of material to render and composite, in fact so much that I might only have a single week to do post production and sound. So yeah, the Patreon preview version of this animation might be a bit rougher than usual! As always, I'll give you another update mid-October, likely including a few more render previews. In the meantime I want to thank all of you for your incredible patience! ;w;