While I don't really follow traditions in general, I do like Halloween. Don't quite remember which date it is tho. :D :D
Got the voice audio a few days ago, adding now.
wip same as in discord, those who saw, need not download this.
audwipdl
It only now dawned on me that half of you aren't on discord so you're kinda out of the loop..
I fukt up, my apologies.
THIS (google drive) is what I've been doing every day for the past month!
Everything is going according to plan with just a few hiccups so far.
DVa's hair had to be changed for technical reasons, although, I think it looks better this way.
I also want to remind you that the PharaMercy animation was only minute and a half long..
This one will be 3 minutes long. That said, I'm well ahead of my self actually! This could have stretched well into December or at least late November, but I'm confident that I can get it done this month as I have nowhere else to be. :D
ALSO, I said I was gonna raise the second tier to $3 and later I said I wouldn't because I would attempt to make due.
Welp, that isn't going too well.. So for those who are already here, starting November the pledge will be 3€ (October is still $2).
For my discord peeps, there's a Q&A channel now. :3
<3
I hope you like it.. Because I don't. Lighting this one was torture, couldn't get it the way I wanted, oh well. This will have to do, got to get back to animating.
DVa-Brig animation is mostly done, it needs some tweaks, but it's ready for the audio..
To avoid both characters sounding the same, Pixiewillow will only voice DVa and Brigitte will be voiced by SilkyMilk (did Mercy in the last animation).
It's pretty obvious it won't be done this month D: .. Not only that, but next month will be all about physics/fluids/rendering.
Counting the days now, I can't promise anything before the second half of October.
This one should work, there appears to be a problem with making patreon link posts.. (This one's a text post)
2020-09-15 01:53:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Just another thing I've been wanting to make for 3 years..
big
smol
[smol 1920x1080]
[big 3840x2160]
Da ting goes boing! Chocolate starfish is itch. ಠ⌣ಠ
Has it really been two months already? Ughh..
I'm not gonna apologize, good animations are hard work.
While "speed-painting" might be a thing, "speed-animating" most certainly is not.
In short - trial and error.. Let's just say I've found a bunch of ways stuff will never work, had no choice but to cut a lot of stuff out. At least the stupidly complicated part is almost over.
mo-wip: [catbox] [mega]
Clearly might stretch into 2+ minutes..
In other news - I was worried I wouldn't have enough to pay for voice acting so I took a freelance security job yesterday (since my certificate hasn't expired yet), so hopefully now I have enough for that. I booked PixieWillow for the 14th September to voice both character which means I have to go terminator mode and finish all of the body animating and write a script till then! :o
Meanwhile, I'll try to fill the void with a poster or something.
Crazy fun to make, got carried away..
I bent over backwards to manually denoise it (denoise plugins just screw everything up).
Hope you'll like at least one of the variations! Personally I like the 5th, like my wallpapers dark, but not too much. >:3
Alright, back to animating.
1920: [1][2][3][4][5][6] (normal)
3840: [1][2][3][4][5][6] (big)
Packed
Hello! Boy, is it hot or what? So hot I can't even fall asleep.. Winter can't get here fast enough!
First of all, there was a delay for which (aside from an epic stomach bug) I have no excuse, I'm sorry.
Playing Witcher 3 Wild Hunt +DLC's probably had something to do with it as well.. In my defense, playing it on ultra settings with steady 60fps is really something!
Again, sorry.
Alright, So while eating ice cubes in this fucking heat, I thought about how I could top that last animation so I figured I'd do something else I've never done before..
Multiple angles and positions!
Don't worry, I'm not gonna go lazy and compile some fucking loop from different angles, no, I mean like switching cameras during the uncut animation.
What you see in those 4 images are the camera angles for the second shot (yep, second shot). Total of 3 shots!
First shot: Both Brig and Dva sitting at the pc looking at some noob's animation; Dva stares intensely at the screen; camera flips to Brigitte, Brig looks at Dva, then looks at her twitching weenie; camera flips to Brig's evil grin; transition to shot #2.
Second shot: (those 4 wip screenshots) Handjob, foot lick, something oral; transition to shot #3
Third shot: Dva bent over against her gaming chair with Brig behind her; Brig POV dong insertion (if blender won't crap out on me again, I really hope it won't); moderately hard ramming with some slapping; Dva starts twitching, unable to stand still; Dva (with her feet off the ground and Brigitte holding her by the thighs) cooms against the chair and on the ground while Brig with shaking knees cooms in Dva's butt.
I started with the second one, the first one I'll do last as that one is the simplest to make.
Pretty much the jist of it.. Actually the tempo at which I do this is necessary otherwise I'll just burn out. +I have to save up so I can afford a VA ($300 a month obviously not enough for everything).
Eh, this happened last time as well, the actual animating is only 20% of the work and if my past is any indication, the overall look of the scene will change. And now, I completely lost time making Dva's hair from scratch (modeling/texturing/shading)...And not just the hair, other things too! Sculpting/re-rigging.. The fucking architecture.. Lighting/tweaking/materials and many more things I don't even remember! I mean holy shit!
I mean, what day even is it??? Tuesday? Saturday? I don't even know! AaaAAAaA!
As you may or may not already know, I revived the discord server "Ren's tomb" (against my better judgement) along with the patreon role. I don't know if it was a good idea or not. The only noteworthy thing about it is the #wips-on-the-fly channel ($2 tier) where I will post tiny wips about whatever I'm working on at that moment.
If you feel like the patreon bot is a nut for auto-inviting you against your will, you are free to leave and forget that ever happened (sorry for the ambush <3).
Uf! Long read! Thank you for reading to the end.
Your patience is greatly appreciated, now more than ever! <3
Is this a reference? :o
3840x2160
1920x1080
In other news, the animation scene exists, but it's a mess. I'll try to go more in depth about it in a few days.
Would have thought I'd have an animation wip to show you now, unfortunately I had two great ideas and they both backfired on me. But third time's the charm, this isn't the first time I had to start over.
BUT.. I know I'm on to something! While trying to figure out how to spectate a normal ow match to record ingame footage for one of my scrapped ideas, lightning hit me and I thought of something that I have never seen anyone do before! I tried googling to see if this was a thing already and I found nothing! :o
Test #1
Test #2
*Sculpting intensifies* :D
1920x1080
3840x2460
While my rigging assistant was attaching the dong on DVa, I didn't wanna just sit idle..
So I thought I'd tinker and improve the Brig model somewhat.
I used Cycles render engine for this and while It's the best thing ever, and as much as I'd like to.. I won't be using the engine for animations. Reason is simple.
It takes Eevee (the engine I used for pharmercy) about 30 seconds to render this image.
It took 30 minutes to render it in Cycles.
So you see, I can only use it for posters. Still, pretty dope. :D
Looks hell of a lot nicer than last time, no? :)
5120x2880 big nuff? lul :3
There are no decent file hosts for images D:, I'm waiting to see if I can get invited to nopy.to
Meanwhile attachments are available. If it really becomes necessary, I'll upload them on mega.
Edit: Oup! Found a host..
1920x1080
5120x2880
1440p WQHD (mega)
1080p HD (mega)
720p (mega)
I may have overdone it a bit, after looking at the finished render I see a lot of problems I didn't even notice before. But fixing them would mean re-baking the fluid and re-rendering and there's just no fucking way I'm doing that again! xD I was gonna write a long-ass speech about behind the scenes stuff, but fuck it, I'm tired. I hope I've lived up to your expectations..
Ps. $2 tier will stay $2, I will not be increasing anything.
Mfw 55 hours..
I suddenly feel the need to throw my 7 year old i5 cpu out the window with magnificent force.
This bake is with a custom fluid preset I created for the pharmercy, unfortunately we all have to bite down and wait for it to finish cOmPuuTinG dErP..
I did however render a test scene with the preset so can see how the fluid will behave (see attachment).
Uffff, the model isn't done yet I guess (though arhoangel said he'd post the model yesterday).. That's fine, got to fine tune dat rig so it has no bugs.
On topic: In the interest of saving time, I've drawn a crude reference for what kind of shlong you'd like to see on D.Va so that I can add it the moment the model gets released (instead of making a poll at the release and waiting days for the poll to end, lul).
Chose carefully, the shape of da cuck will determine what kind of activities D.Va will be involved in.
No end date is set, the poll will end once the model gets released.
(btw Pharmercy is coming along smoothly so far (now that I'm home every day), I've already ordered the rtx 2070 super and with it I expect production speed to skyrocket :3)
And for the love of fuck, please stay safe.
I know, I know, people grow impatient.. And yet, I'm doubling down.
I am going to invest my last paycheck into RTX 2070 SUPER (vs the one I work with now)
Whit this I expect the shading look better and the overall performance of the render engine to be way better. And I am certain, I'll be able to render 4k videos at true 60fps including this one.
The state of the current animation is what it is. Both characters have been voiced and I've started adding fluid sims.. I expect this whole thing to be done before or around mid June.
[Spoilers..]
MEGA (same as attachement)
I finally did it! I resigned. The feel of relief is strong. 3 more weeks of mind-numbing boredom and I'm free!
Bot wait, there's more...
Arhoangel is finally releasing a D.Va model!
I will let you guys decide what kind of dong she'll have (weenie, sausage or mushroom), poll will start shortly after model release.
Hi! First of all, my apologies for the silence, being an essential worker during these times is very demanding and frankly I'm sick of it. (I's not 9 to 5, it's 8 to 22)
I will notify my boss this month to seek a replacement as I've decided to quit my fucking profession and let my certificate rot.
Consequently starting 1th July the second tier will be $3 instead of $2.
On to a cheerier note.. What you saw in the last poster turns out is not what the end animation will look like, not even close!
I already got a voice actress to voice Pharah (as you can hear in the wip).. And even though I paused the pledges last month, I commissioned another VA to voice Mercy which I will pay for from my own pathetic and tiny paycheck.
Anyway, I believe I've got enough keyframes in place to show it off somewhat..
So without further ado: MEGA dl (same as attachment)
Stay safe! <3
I sowed the seeds and watched them grow. I cultivated a long chain of events leading to this. All of this… has been my design.
-Will Graham
Geez, you would think that I wouldn't need to go to work so much these days.. Coworkers don't even wanna leave their houses.
Aaanyway...
My obsession with customization and experimentation took it's toll on animating, and slowed it down slightly. But on the up side, I'm now making my own props from scratch! (hairclip, rings, sleeves, that ornament in the background nobody will ever notice lol)
Copious amounts of sculpting! (as evident by the difference between this and the first wip)
I found out I can throw any video in blender in seconds like a prop, unbelievable!
Speaking of insane.. Thanks to my big MacGyver brain, I figured out how to do something that I have never seen anyone do before (in r34 3d porn), see candywrapper.mp4
Stay safe! <3
In the last post I said I'd be using Sombra.. I did, I tried two different models, but they both had so, so many problems! Mercy is super challenging, but at least doable.
Dis is da wae, my bruddas. *klock klock klock*
*Animating starts*
Best. Scene-building. Experience. Ever. So far.
While I was writing this post, I was trying to decide whether this would be a Pharmercy thing or not.. But I've decided to let Sombra have her way. B)
I have no clue how this will unfold yet.
<3
2020-03-07 13:41:56 +0000 UTC View Post
MEGA 1080p
MEGA 720p
(same as attachments)
*relieved screaming*
*skipping long and boring speech*
Could it look better? The answer is yes, absolutely.
But fuck, If I were to work on it until it was perfect, you good people would have to wait another 10 months! So here it is.. The result of me cramming a year of learning blender in 3 months. Imagine compressing an elephant into a zip and eating it like a sandwich lol..
I hope I've lived up to your expectations. <3
Hello.
Meant to post it many days ago, tho It took around 100 hours (20+ test renders) to get a decent result! Who knew the fluid physics could be so volatile? No one told me.. :D But this will have to do, I don't wanna waste any more time messing with the settings+might make it even worse. Anyway, I feel like I'm finally closing in on rendering and sound, just need some more animating at the end and a few fixes/touch ups. Any further updates I will post in the comments.
mega (same as the attachment.)
Last wip was piss poor, sorry about that, didn't know how to render the viewport at the time..
And here's also a MEGA LINK for the iOS people.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Apple will never be worth it.
The image you see above is is me obsessing over lighting and shading again (some things will never change) and is what it will look like when I'm done. Might get a bit brighter, maybe not. See attachment for the actual wip. All things considered, I'm progressing pretty fucking fast!
2020-01-19 20:15:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year! <3
Learning blender is putting my brain into overdrive. I'm Trying to learn 30 things all at the same time of which the most frustrating is setting up hair physics...
Speaking of physics, it took me forever to figure out how to make boob physics submit to model alterations, but now that that's over, I have a higher understanding how shit works so it was well worth exploring. This poster is a shading trial and error, my head is spinning of the possibilities! I also decided raping my pc won't work with blender, if I'm gonna animate more than two characters in a single scene, I will need much more hardware power (my i5 feels like pentium 4 now haha). I know I'm overdue for animations, but my mindset has not changed - I refuse to produce garbage, I will work on it until it looks amazing. As always, your patience is deeply appreciated! <3
Merry Latemass!
Photoshop is just ms paint at this point, blender is magic!
I just need to buy this one blender plugin that greatly speeds up fluid simulations asap and if all goes well I can finally get back to animating.
<3
2019-12-28 03:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
...Work->buss->home/blender->breakfast->taxi->work->home/blender->1h sleep->whatever the fuck one eats @ 3am->blender->POST... All because I promised Pharah this week ^^
I'm fine, srsly.
Had to hire help and buy a few props (bike & background stuff) to make this, I hope it was worth it!
Stuff, stuff, stuff... Omg, I am learning so much!
Next week: Futa Pharah.
