Now you guys can see what I gotta fix.
Some stuff I have no clue why it happens. Like Sayori's innards kinda poking outwards and oh boi the physics! Weird shit these days.
Youtube's linking is a bit broken in the new uploader, because of course it is, so tell me if you can't access this
Happy Thanksgiving!
So this has most of the video in a complete form.
I still have work to do with Minmax's scenes, but most of my scenes you can see are near complete!
I'm very sorry about the wait so far, but thank you for your patience and I hope it's worth it!
Edit: During Yuri's entrance, I JUST spotted that blue car on the far left freaking out due to physics being on while animating. Man, it's always something to fix.
This is nearly done and ready to go!
Needs some aspect ratio fixes, more screenshake, and some depth of field!
Sorry about the two or 3 mistakes that showed up in render. They definitely weren't there before! Just goes to show how hard it is to keep all these things in control!
Despite those problems, these scenes are pretty much done!
2019-11-10 04:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't believe just part 1 is 2 minutes long. Wtf.
Clothing and Hair physics added in!
Lots of animation fixes. Pretty much this is ready to go to me!
Book title will be changed to match Yuri's favorite kinds of books. (The ones where the nice main character snaps. It's kinda important since that's what this whole video is based on with its idea)
As you can see, the physics are all over the place. He apparently fights Blender's physics a lot!
I gotta go in there in my polish run to fix all that.
10/18/19: Solving Issues!
Finally got somewhere with Minmax's side.
I learned quite a bit too while I was fixing another artist's messy files.
So this is pretty important. I solved the depth of field issue with the models that also caused them to stay in front of any transparency at ...
2019-10-11 02:43:44 +0000 UTC View Post
After everything is glued together, THEN WE... wait for Yuri's voice actress.
But I want to be prepared so that when she's finished, I can get the project out the door as asap as possible!
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Actually, I'll just have the sound go up with the fixes.
Don't want to make a mess of the youtube uploads by essentially uploading the same video 3 times. I see all of my uploads when I look at my channel, so it's a mess.
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Most of my stuff is almost done, just ...
Edit: Final scene had Natsuki wish to be back at the school before she made Yuri's personality changes. The screen is supposed to flash white and then they're back, but I'm lazy.
This is the final full wip snippet for my part of DDLC. It's now on to polishing it all up and doing complete Early Access versions.
Minmax's part might be a separate snippet still though.
But do please tell me what you think of the overall thing so far!
I'll start by saying I sure as hell didn't exp...
9/30/19: Natsuki city rough draft done
I can't believe I did this today in one go. I was about to end it halfway from animating too much but I stuck it through. Now to put this in UE4 and then go back to polish up everything.
Fade to Natsuki already being a bit huge in the daydream.
2019-09-28 00:56:47 +0000 UTC
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Just as planned.
Ok, a bit bigger than planned.
Wait.
How long is this?
Jesus, 1 minute of animation!
I expected 30 seconds! This is gonna be a LONG video once everything is put together and paired with Minmax3d.
After dealing with a bunch of irl stuff recently this weekend, I've thought about this a bit.
So Sizecon is coming up in February and I thought it'd be best to bring it up with you guys on if I should go.
There's a bunch of people to meet and greet, but it'd be a bit expensive to go from California to New York and definitely stay throughout the weekend. (Although I'm very careful with saving up money. I do love New York too)
The big question is if it'd be super worth going?
I ...
9/11/19: The City Scourge... it's 9/11... Probably a bad time to post this.
Anyways! I put this together as a template to follow for my future self.
Just so he can ruin the entire plan by maker her bigger than expected. The bastard.
Ok, after felling the building with the billboard knife, (that's currently to the right of her hip) she steps BACK so it falls, then climbs over to do the ROAR thing on the other side that will blow away traffic and stuff.
After Yuri's city scourge stuff, then it's time for Natsuki's very short version with not much movement. THEN WE GOTTA GO BACK MARTY! (Cleanup run)
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With some more animation down, it's to put things in UE4 for update pics to look good.
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With the change to what I've been studying hard all last month, it should help re-inspire me and get things done a bit quicker. Good thing all the animation so far is rough draft.
Nevermind. It's too late to c...
2019-09-09 21:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, uploading to multiple sites takes forever. One change is at the end being that there's no full list of Patron credits. It's just there's a LOT to keep track of and it can take awhile to do. Which is a heavy load on top of everything else i'm already doing.
I still do have the original $30 patrons hidden in the video from then.
I think next time I'll make a list of who's hidden and have that in the end credits. That could be a good middle-ground.
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Here's the musi...
2019-09-07 05:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to try composing music for the full release because it's all I've been thinking about for awhile. It'd be a shame not to try.
So enjoy the core video with sound while I work on it!
Ok, a few glitches I worked out, but it takes forever to render.
This is definitely on track to be out next week
2019-08-24 03:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostWell I didn't want to go straight back into the bowsette vid and just add lip sync.
I wanted to improve upon it JUST a little bit.
Ok, maybe a bit more than a little bit since I didn't like the way the characters looked.
Anyways, i'm doing this now because I feel that I can get this done before t...
2019-08-22 02:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Having a LOT of trouble with destruction here.
But it seems Unreal Engine Chaos is coming out super soon and it looks like THE way to do destruction without going through multiple programs like I don't know how to do right now.
I decided to finish off the rough animation for the rest of the non-city parts tonight.
Hey! So i'm up to the scene where Yuri is about to tear through a city brutally.
Send me some ideas for how she does it and i'll see if I can get them in!
From around 100ft upwards to giga.
Can range from twisted school girl playfulness (skipping across and destroying houses as her foot lands on them) to... well, destroying stuff in a massive combo.
Should I include a combo meter? That sounds kinda funny...
2019-08-13 03:52:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Things learned during this.
Camera shake in UE4.
Lighting characters using different channels rather than a spotlight right in their face.
Further lighting changes to be more stylized than realistic. (Pinkish hue to sky)
Also learned stepped animation and proper camerawork with that.
It's been an interesting 2 weeks.
Oh! Sorry about not much facial animation. A lot will need to be planned for voices, so it's best to not be too hasty when things don't match up. Requirin...
2019-08-10 00:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Got quite a bit going here. You know, I don't look the camera's over-smoothness of some scenes. I gotta figure out how to cool its interpolation jets.
This also has a ton of VR potential, BUT VR and the Anime shader don't like each other. Just one of those things.
2019-07-27 07:26:01 +0000 UTC View Post8/9/19: Nyuri's Debut
Ok! The scenes that were completely unfinished before now have their rough animation all layed out!
I had to animate that tree getting all pushed up on by Yuri. Each branch. At least it came out looking fantastic and that's all that matters!
2019-07-20 04:39:47 +0000 UTC
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I'll put the full score from the video up here if it comes out pretty good.
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I'm at a point where Bowsette will definitely be done this week and DDLC next month if destruction goes as well as I think it will. (After having hell with it, naturally)
Then I'm taking the Marin video in the stepped animation direction for the first time. So i'm super excited for all these things!
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Stepped animation is just not easy to implement in 3d space.
I've been tryi...
So the past few months, my house has actually been without working water in multiple rooms. House flooded, water pipes broke except for 1 bathroom, hot water heater broke, so gotta shower at others' places, electricity re-wiring, and a bunch of house bullshit from the 60's breaking down.
Because of you guys, I can help pitch in with my family to get everything back to functioning!
I've actually been saving up a lot in case for these emergencies. There's currently a lot of holes in the h...
It's finally time to move on.
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Until people talk about making a part 2 or adding sound.
(Let's see when Youtube wants to take this down)
11 hour stream to get this done!
This clearly needs this last week to finish. But what I have right now is showing everything i'm trying to show without obvious things in the way!
So I thought that now was a perfect time to release the early access so that I can get everything done during this week. Sorry this is all taking so long. This video just keeps on punching with different things to fix.
Worst one being the camera bug ...
So I just noticed her yes doing something weird. No idea what it is, but hey. VR is working so far. Except with the anime shader. So I gotta plan for that.
2019-06-20 20:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Once this video releases, i'm gonna sit down and relax knowing I've created a happy universe... I think that's the quote...
I also will probably jump on the next project immediately.
I'll flip a coin on it.