June Updates

--- 6/29 ---

Dva Intro WIP is available

Mega Link here 

There is a lot of work to be done on it still, but this should give you an idea of where it is going and the progress that has been made between renders. I am cleaning up movements now that they are blocked out, running cloth sims, hair systems, and starting facial animation.

I still need to balance the audio too to tie into the other shots, that will happen post render.

--- 6/24 ---

Dva Animation pt 5 is available

I posted part 5 last night, I hope you all have had a chance to see it and its to your liking.

I am still animating the intro, and will share a WIP soon. Animators and vfx artists all over the world are starting to crunch right now as studios try to bounce back from the pandemic and the overtime is heavy so I have not gotten to do as much as I want with it. I work on this every night its just hard to give 100% at the end of every day. Please be patient with the other artists out there, they are probably dealing with the same thing.

Because I do not want to have an idle render queue I built a VR scene and just sent that job a few moments ago. The frames are taking a very long time, this new scene was made to reduce that render time per frame. It also breaks up the VR animation from the compilation stuff so I may continue to do this on the other VR animations.

I am trying to render to 4K this time, which is about 2K per eye. Eventually I would like to raise that threshold but I am just one person so I can't promise that quite yet. when it does finish I will release it here for download, and post main content elsewhere online for streaming.

Sombra VO is recorded

In other news Peachy has recorded the last of the performance for the Sombra animation and I can begin cutting sound together and start the framework for animation on that once the Dva intro is sent to render.

She did an amazing job! I really think you guys will like what comes out, the effort the voice artists put out is really important for the performance.

--- 6/11 ---

Dva Animation WIP is available

Mega Link 

I messed up on some timing in the intro shot and did not make as much progress as I wanted to this week. I am adjusting the Intro now. It is not available and will not be released alongside the POV shot. So as soon as this is done rendering I will just release it. and then the Intro after.

--- 6/8 ---

Mercy won in the character poll. 

She will get an animation after Dva and Sombra, and there will be no detail poll this time because her shots are already planned.

Sombra Voice Over

Mizz Peachy is okay, and she has agreed to record the rest of the Sombra dialogue. I still do not have it as of now, and If I have not gotten a stable read on part 1 of the animation I will make the intro instead. 

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The polls are open

Be sure to vote for the character that comes after Dva and Sombra. I do not know when the next poll will be available, & I do not know know if we get a detail poll this time. So please be sure to vote before that closes. It is open through the 7th.

Dva animation pt.5 is rendering

I have a WIP viewport animation that I am working on for those who like spoilers. I am going to make a little bit more progress on the intro before I share it out so that it will make a little more sense. If you like to be surprised at the end then I would just recommend waiting for it to finish rendering, the viewports are low quality, not at all like the renders.

I am animating the Intro right now while pt 5 renders. Expect to see a WIP next week.