KimiOmega

A familiar face

Who's that fellah?

I have officially moved from Flash 8 to Blender. The software does everything I need and more. And everything I could do in Flash can be done quicker in Blender too. (As long as I stay organized)

Episode 8 is very close to 70%, I only have a very small part of this clip left to animate and its backgrounds. Then, the last scene! Seeing how things are going, I would love to see where the episode would be at the middle of the next month! I'm really happy the jump w...

King's Castle

Castle Dedede was completed this week, I spent the next 2 days getting ready to start working in Blender, troubleshooting things left and right, setting up keyboard shortcuts and playing around with the brush settings. Tonight, I finally have it the way I want it! (More changes will be made in the future, regarding the brush settings.)

Here are some dark teasers~

King's Throne Room!

I've started this yesterday night but I was only encountering problems then, so I technically started this background this evening.

I quickly made this rug, it was one of the easier parts. I made the insignia in Flash and imported it as an Image Texture. The bricks and checker patterns of the walls and floor are just textures nodes in Blender. Nothing too crazy here.

2023-03-29 01:15:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Ado Potato

Episode 8 is 63% completed! That's 9% in a bit over a week, meaning that Scene 3 only needs 3 backgrounds and sounds to be done! Then, the very last clip of Scene 2 and finally Scene 1. I am one month ahead on schedule and with my upcoming week off in May, I hope I can be very close to the end of the episode by early June.

I didn't have too many updates this month... Mostly due to focusing on completing Scene 2, but now I just have a new place to model (King's Castle) and Scene 1 that s...

Lotsa paintin'!

This clip only needs 2 days of work and then it'll be completed and I can start the last clip of Scene 2. Scene 3 will be very short, so I hope to have Scenes 2 and 3 completed May.

Then, I'll be working on Scene 1. I'd really like Scene 1 to take at most 2 months to complete. Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I really wanted this clip to be completed before April. I'm now ahead of schedule. I will be taking days off on April so I can finish Scene 3 in no time!

Grease Pencil

My first artwork made in Blender's grease pencil! It's still a bit tedious to navigate in Blender, colouring took some extra time somehow and I'll need some time to make keyboard shortcuts but I'm very happy with the result. I've yet to animate a character in it, that's going to be the next step.

When it comes to effects like glow or even blur, however, this is so much better and faster than doing it in Flash, that's for sure. I'd like to try one of the next clips of KG in Grease Pencil...

The new background method

Having a 3D model for the house allows me to makes interior backgrounds much faster than before. I modeled the living room a couple of month ago and the bedroom last month. I would like to make models of every interior that will appear on the show and do the same with IRÔH!.

Adding shading and details has always been the more fun part of backgrounds to me, the object placement, not so much... So by combining different skills, I can make a single background in an hour as opposed to five...

Ade-LineArt timelapse

Only the line art here, unfortunately but there are five Adeleines in this video!

While I'm here, I plan on streaming this week. I am right on schedule but can even be ahead if I still work as much as I do nowadays. The last clip I was working on was tough but the current one is its complete opposite, with only a couple  of animations left to do for it! Even the sounds and backgrounds are already added!

Thank you so much for supporting my creations!

New emotes!

I've made the last two just now. I'm on a roll, as opposed to yesterday, so I'll make the most of it and get as much work done as I can!

The butterfly lady: A challenge in 4 chapters. + New emotes, WOW!

So, apparently, I was working on the money shot of the episode... It didn't take an entire month to make but it was 3 weeks of work for just this shot. I've worked on entire 1 minute long clips that took the exact same amount of time or less. But everything is there, now, except for the butterfly that I'll be making after my short food break. Tonight, I'll add sounds and shading to the whole clip!

Also, I've been working on stuff for my Twitch channel and made new emotes feat...

February Update

Long time no see! I've been working on new alerts for my Twitch channel and have been at it non-stop for a whole week. I want to be done with them for Monday so I can go back and finish that one Adeleine shot from last time. It's almost there!

After that, I will be streaming some animation progress again with brand new alerts! I'm also thinking of uploading VODs on my second channel, for those who cannot catch them live but we'll see.

Walkies 1: The lady, the kids and the butterfly

Ok, I don't think I'm finishing Clip 10 and 9 this month now that this animation is a thing... I love it. I really do like the rough pass for it. It's an ambitious shot and it's going to take a long time, though... "I'm still on it a week later" type of "long time"...

See you when the lineart is finished!

Good Mornight (43%)

The Company love starting a new day early! Adeleine dislikes cutting her night short... Adeleine loves going for a stroll at night, alone! The Company can't stay up too late...

Nothing too exciting this month appart from Clip 10 being almost completed and Clip 9 looking to be a quick one! I don't think I'll have them both completed for late January, but starting the second to last clip of Part 2 in mid February will be a win!

I have 3,5 clips left for Part 2, I'll then be at 60% c...

Snap!

The current clip is so close to being done, I'm aiming to have it finished by Sunday so I can start the next one on the 23th. The following clip will be even faster to make so, in an ideal world, I could finish these 2 clips in only a month. We'll see when we get there.

Oh, I've also written all the episodes and I'm planning on having the ideas that didn't make it into comics.

Short Clips

Some clips I've been making while taking breaks from KG. Despite only being rough sketches, I hope you enjoy these short clips!

Featuring Moon "Nova" Satanus, Katatonyk Satanus, Katatumbo Satanus, Camille "Baby Doc" Mephis and Necky Lucy Satanus!

38%!!!

This clip was December's clip and considering the animation above is the last thing to finish before sound effects and backgrounds, I'm technically still on schedule. I get to start the next clip on early January!

While I don't like setting dates for anything I do, I'm looking for an August release. I've managed to make every clip so far in one month (add a couple of days for some), so, if I keep it up, August seems accurate BUT we never know what will happen, there's still music to mak...

A third of the way there...

The Company decided to surprise their guardian and draw her, after spending months with her. They seem to mostly remember her as a loving yet somewhat scary monster with sharp fangs and claws and who loves to paint. However, they also believe she only shows her teeth when someone harasses her new family. With that in mind, the little soldiers feel secure, knowing that someone is always watching over them and that this certain someone knows how to fight!

The episode is 35% completed! 25%...

House experiment: Success

Spending 4 days on that house saved me hours or planning for the 5 backgrounds I made yesterday. Here's a sneak peek. All the extra stuff was drawn on Clip Studio Paint, this isn't an add-on or a toon shader to make the lines, I just spent an hour on each background to make it better and I'm happy with the result!

Adding shading is always fun, it's just the planning process of backgrounds that isn't, so now, I don't have to worry about the item placement and such! Yeh!

A lovely house!

This took 3 days to make, I just finished it now! I still need to fix the stars on the door. I'll use the same technique as the windows: The Boolean modifier, that can simulate a cut through any object, so I can have the stars engraved in the golden spheres.

There's not much to add here except that working with those will make perspective drawings much better and I only have to add details on Clip Studio Paint without having to draw every single prop. It'll still take time to make it lo...

Suddenly tall grass!

Something I made this weekend. I wanted to see if 3D backgrounds could help, so I remade the tall grass from episode 6 and 7. After many tries, I got a result I like but not as much as the 2D stuff. I don't want the backgrounds to be only 3D, I'd like to use a base and add more details on top in Clip Studio Paint or something but I'll make it so it's not jarring.

Mor on that later...

The 3D Company!!

Ok, I think I'm done with Blender... For now. I've been working on a commission all day and finished the night by completing this! All I had to do today with this file was adding the eyebrows and such. Just the Circle + Path curve trick I've used for Moon's hair and eyebrows. Ever since I learned about Smash Bros. back in 2004, I've always wanted to replicate the trophies introduced in Melee. Another childhood dream completed!

Anywho, KG episode 8 is finally 30% completed! Halfway throu...

Trophy?

Oh yes, this is all coming together...

The 3D Company: Only missing expressions

The bodies, eyes and cheeks are all done! If I want to have them all on the same picture, I have to duplicate the bodies as well and link eack face to a separate body... I think I'll do that tomorrow. But hey, I made their little tongue:

The inside of the mouth is a different colour, I used backfacing ...

The 3D... Company?

As I was drawing The Company for episode 8 (Clip 8 is close to completion already, by the way! More gifs coming your way later this week!) I was wondering how fast I could make them in 3D... So...

While I won't be making Adeleine, at least The Company will be a fun activity during animation breaks. They have the same colours as in the series, The armature took longer than it should be everything moves perfectly now. The body used to bend while I was moving the arms and the Weight Paint ...

Judgment Day

I can officially say that I like Blender now. That was very fun! I want to get better at 3D animation as well now, just for fun, I don't plan on going 3D in the future but it's a good set of skill to have.

3D Moon: Not yet, it's not over yet! + Walkies Clip

Oh, look at that! A new outfit!

Yesterday was a massive grind day: Animating clip 2-8, music making AND 3D modelling! But one of those things (the music) didn't turn out too great but the core idea is there! On the other hand, the animation was quick and fun and the 4AM 3D modelling was really enjoyable!

Now, this outfit only needs shorts and the shoes but the dress and accessories were so easy to make that I'm considering remaking them and record the process, I don't know.

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4K Render

Here's the latest render! I modified the tail, instead of using the tair particle system, I decided to give it the same texture as her hair. I'll still try to animate it while taking breaks from animating on Flash but for the overall look of it, I'm considering it done. She looks like an old 64 game's render but less shiny.

I'll be streaming the end of the current KG clip tomorrow or on Sunday, whichever day is better to me. Take care, everyone!

3DMoon: The Eye Ordeal

Yet another chapter of the saga, everything most mostly done, the eyes were still lacking. I wanted to keep them as an image and draw individual emotions but I still wanted to try modeling them to see how they'd look. They didn't looks great...

But I still kept the sclera, I didn't want to delete it since, unlike an image, I could have it glow in the dark. That's when I decided to keep the best of both world and mix them. Now, the eyelids and lashes are a flat picture and the scelra was...

Bad hair day, in 3D woooOOoooh

Here's today's update, I wanted to use the hair particle to try and recreate her rather messy hair but it became to real, figuratively and literally. That's when I made her regular hair more puffy and followed a tutorial to have a good hairy look without spending 3158 years on it.

And that's the hair done! The final thing before the clothes! I'm keeping the messy hair, it can work with her casual outfit. I'll start the clothes after a nice shower and dinner break.

Visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yesterday

Just kidding, it's actually 3D Moon again, got you. Anyways, yesterday, before going to bed, I tried the tail hair particle system and comb tool to make the tail. Look at how fluffy it is!

Today, I finished all the textures except for the hair on her head. I wanted to make flickering lights for a long time now, so there it is. With the help of the person who showed this on his stream months ago, making me want to have that in the first place. Then, I wanted to add Moon's scars but I don...