Quick Update!
Added 2025-12-25 14:42:16 +0000 UTCHi all! Merry Christmas! 🥶
Just a very quick update to stave off any reasonable concerns for this month's content. The POV animation is on its way and will be published before the turn of the year. I'm very sorry it's taken longer to polish than expected. This animation, along with others following it, are all part-in-parcel with a larger 6-8 minute project. I've been dipping in and out of different animations – particularly when one gets updated with a significant change, the others need updating as well. In hindsight, I wouldn't build a project in this manner, but if there's any silver lining this set of animations will be completed in relatively quick succession.
As an aside, I wanted to share something that I've been working on over the past two months. Blender doesn't have a working soft-body simulator, which has resulted in some big challenges for Zoey. It has a dedicated physics option for soft-body, though it's very very poor and outdated - most artists resort to using cloth physics instead. Cloth physics produces fairly good results as a workaround (Zoey's fatty parts have been largely simulated with this method), but it has major issues when it comes to things like compression and volume displacement, which require a lot of hands-on finessing with frame-by-frame sculpting and shape keys. So with some methodical help from ChatGPT, I've been developing a genuine soft-body simulation add-on for Blender, which utilises a FEM solver (a physics approach that best captures volume displacement), with a GPU backend for accelerated performance (FEM is computationally taxing). This is something that will help a ton for animating Zoey in the long run, and I'll be eager to share it for free once the add-on's up to scratch. <3
Comments
So cute and Jiggly
Junkman
2026-01-02 00:51:56 +0000 UTCHappy new Year
Httastt
2026-01-01 09:20:03 +0000 UTCHappy New Year from Australia
FelgrandEmperor
2026-01-01 04:51:00 +0000 UTCi guess happy new year
ZXC bezdar
2025-12-31 19:06:33 +0000 UTCThanks for the info
Araitsu
2025-12-29 14:43:36 +0000 UTCIs it gonna be this one month boss?
salah
2025-12-28 17:42:19 +0000 UTCI'm very mad at all of it being a traditional illustrator and photographer myself, it's killed those industries. But I do see some use for certain tech coming out of it like for image recognition and speech recognition, along with stuff like code and search within databases and the like.
YellowSnowleopard
2025-12-26 23:12:12 +0000 UTCThanks
Grizzz
2025-12-26 20:52:02 +0000 UTCAbsolutely. I have a bit of coding experience to pick apart some of its odder habits, but it's is remarkably adaptable so long as you prod it in the right directions.
paan
2025-12-26 18:45:52 +0000 UTCLucky teddy
norman157
2025-12-26 05:01:38 +0000 UTCThe actual file will be decensored
norman157
2025-12-26 04:59:41 +0000 UTCありがと!
paan
2025-12-26 02:54:11 +0000 UTCI'm looking forward to it! Your technological innovation is amazing! Thank you for always providing high-quality art. From a Japanese fan! (Google Translate)
がぜねこ
2025-12-26 01:59:19 +0000 UTCwp
ZXC bezdar
2025-12-25 23:36:22 +0000 UTCThanks for letting us know what's up! I look forward to the POV coming in this last week of 2025!
Cear
2025-12-25 21:46:36 +0000 UTCPixiv policy, he explains that in other post
wevo02
2025-12-25 20:23:47 +0000 UTCSo there was a xmas miracle!!! Keep going!!
wevo02
2025-12-25 20:22:58 +0000 UTCThanks for the update my good friend. But do you really need the censoring? 😒😒😒
Grizzz
2025-12-25 20:03:23 +0000 UTCJust be careful doing coding with an LLM, those things are kinda good at throwing you good looking answers that can blow things up when put to use.
YellowSnowleopard
2025-12-25 17:25:49 +0000 UTCyeah blenders soft body is chopped. alot of clipping and other things which make the aniamtions look worse and less smooth. but i hope you can manage to reach a point where the old maya quality returns.
InkSho
2025-12-25 15:40:21 +0000 UTCOh sweet. So you weren't just working on your animations but also on providing an improved feature to the program? respect.
FelgrandEmperor
2025-12-25 15:18:08 +0000 UTC
