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WIP: Halfway through and getting to the pose-change!

First, thanks for all the birthday wishes on my last post!

I've officially made it to the halfway point of the animation. It's purely animation though, I haven't done any effects or lighting quite yet. I have plans to have the usual juice FX and to play around with the shading a bit. But saving that for last will save me tweaking it while I'm working on the animation

I feel the chest doesn't bounce like I want it to so I'll likely go back and manually tweak it. It's jiggle is curr...

Off day: It's my birthday!

I was going to do a WIP update today but my family came over to my house and told me today was my birthday. I totally lost track of time and thought it was tomorrow. They took me out to get food and we just hung out for the day which was nice and relaxing. As a result I didn't get to render a video out so I snuck a screenshot in of my current progress. I actually quite like the camera angle.

Not that there's much to show as far as new animation tricks. It's mostly more of the...

WIP: Progress report

Just dropping some of my progress here. Not much to say about what I'm doing that I wasn't already doing before, other than I'm not liking the camera movement and how still some shots are. Like I said in the last post I'll likely go back and fancy up the camera and body motion a bit to compensate for how "still" hentai/anime is. But using this still approach lets me rapidly animate. I'm learning it's actually a real technique animators use to animate called pose to pose. It's used to rapidly ...

WIP: Actual animation to show you!

This was supposed to be yesterdays preview so now that the installation is done I'm posting it today!

Turns out all that updating I did yesterday still didn't fix the hands. I ended up going back into making and just making his hands the default size then increasing them in studio using KKPE. It's a bit of a hacky solution and it means if you replace the male you will need to shrink the hands back down in KKPE if it looks too big. 

Now that I have a fully updated HF install t...

WIP: Bug fixing and patches

Looks like it's finally time for me to update. While working on the animation I noticed the males hands kept getting bigger and bigger every time I loaded a new character over him or toggled IK. I figured the cause would be my outdated ABMX version. So I went to update it, which required an updated KKAPI which required an updated Bepinx, which broke a lot of my older mods.

So I decided to hit it with the updater to see if I could just patch the problem away by using the latest HF patch....

WIP: Getting started

Starting on my next commission~

I spent most of the day doing a lot of setup since this particular animation will have quite a bit of pose-shifting in it. So the groundwork had to be layed out and every part of the characters had to be moveable. It's why I didn't bother rendering out anything since not even a second of actual animation has been done.

The commission this time was to recreate a scene from Bible Black. Obviously the entire scene was too long so I'm going to do a ~2is...

Off day: Feels good to be inspired!

TL;DR - Found an artist I liked and had fun researching his characters and designs. It helped me understand what I can do better. The images are the results of my study.

Since I just finished a commission I gave myself a day to play around and decided to use pixiv to actually look at art instead of playing games. I discovered a fairly popular artist that goes by LAM (you probably heard of him?). His use of colors and the crazy stuff he did wi...

Full Nelson Yelan : Scene Data + Animation

Finally done! The Holidays got in the way a bit but I managed to squeeze it out last night!

~VERY IMPORTANT: When you load a new character in, they will likely look like a butchered mess. Just make sure you load them in, SAVE and then RELOAD the scene you just saved. it will fix the problem. I have no idea why that happens but it's a problem with this specific scene.~

Took a good deal of wracking my noggin to figure out how to get the bulge AND belly swelling on t...

Holiday off-day~

I spent the holiday today with my family and we were talking about all the things we were thankful for (which is the spirit of the holiday). Which got me thinking about how I'm thankful for you guys who follow and support my content. So I wanted to wish you a happy thanksgiving. 

I've been hard at work on the animation but didn't have time to do a render today what with family over and everything. I don't exactly want grandma to see the NSFW renders. Thankfully it's 90% done, just ...

WIP: Full Nelson Yelan - Speed up and preparing for climax

Didn't get as much done the last few days as I wanted since work and family obligations are getting in the way such prepping for thanksgiving and my mothers birthday and even my own birthday is coming up!

But I managed to push the animation a bit further despite it. I'm liking how the motion and expressions are coming along. I feel my efforts and research on expressions is paying off slowly. Much like lighting, it will be something I'm working on all the time. In particular I like the i...

WIP: Full Nelson Yelan - Pose shift

The legs looked out of place so they've been included into the males grip.

Getting the pose to work was actually quite a struggle but I like the pose a lot more this way so it was worth the effort. Looks more like a real full-nelson scene!

You can also see how the stomach deformation will look here. It's a bit better than the one I did a while ago using a clone of the character. This time the deformation is actually happening on the character. 

You can also see I've sta...

WIP: Full Nelson Yelan

Alright, took a day off so I'm getting around to starting my next commission!

Knocked out most of the prep-work yesterday and got started on the actual animation today. The plan is to go from rubbing to insertion to climax. I know, it's a plot worthy of an award. 

The animation will have insertion bulge + coom inflation at the request of the client so I'll also make a version for those not into that. It's really easy since it just requires me to delete a few parts ...

Dirty Dishes: Animation + Scene Data

Finally done with this one!

Unlike my previous works this one doesn't have audio. I'll likely push out an audio version down the road just not today!

~I ended up using this animation to try and experiment with expressions. The face type I'm using is a good deal more expressive than the older one. The problem being that, from what I can tell, other face types don't work for expressions when loaded over her. Now normally I'd say no expression no problem, but expression is kind of th...

WIP update: Dirty Dishes - Pose shift and preparing for final stretch!

Probably the final update for this one. Next you hear of it should be the release post. The animation will be fairly short compared to the last commission.

In the request they wanted it to end in a climax/hug combo followed by a smooch so I'm getting her into a huggable pose! Right now her hands clip a bit during the pose shift so I'll be spending the next few days refining all those quirks out, fixing the males hand clipping and animating booty squish/camera angles as well a...

WIP: Dirty dishes - Pushing the animation and focusing on expression!

Just keeping you posted on the WIP!

I made a bunch of progress yesterday and today. Actually quite a bit more than you see here but this is as far as I got with expressions.

The plan is for the thrusting to speed up over time until he's doing some backbreaking work on her. I want to animate her booty as well so I might have to move his hand to prevent the clipping that's already happening.

I'm liking how it's going so far though. I feel the female is a LOT more an...

Bonus SD release!

Originally I wanted to post an update to the WIP today but life got in the way. So while I got the animating done I didn't have time to render out the preview video before it got too late into the night and now I'm sleepy~

I don't like going silent for more than a day or two so I figured I'd drop a bonus scene in~

This was my first scene testing a new lighting method. As usual when you try to get good lighting it means deleting what the game provides, so to get your lig...

WIP: Dirty Dishes

Got around to starting the next animation. Like before this one was a lot of setup using folders and the like. But I think it typically results in smoother movement.

This is the commission from a user on Pixiv. He wanted a wholesome vibe. So I tried to capture that playful housewife vibe. So stuff like the playful hip wiggle and her not really minding he just walked up behind her and stuck it in hopefully sell the vibe of a young couple "experiencing" youth. 

I'm a...

Quick Animation: Pullups! - Animation + Scene Data

Since I finished Ganyu, I wanted to animate her and workout animations are great for practice and plenty of reference exists for lots of exercises. 

Since its just a warmup animation before I start my next commission it's made relatively quickly. However, that doesn't mean I didn't learn any lessons from it. 

It turns out the head type I use for her causes facial expressions to break for head types that don't match. So if you load a character that doesn't use Turime head...

Genshin Character Release 01: Ganyu!

Ganyu is done! Decided to put off patching the rest of the characters in favor of releasing the one I'm working on.

I think she came out good. She still very much looks like Ganyu, while still reflecting my art style. 

I also made 3 body types for her, Modest, Lewd and Hentai.

Each one upping the thickness further and further. In the previews I'm using Modest for the moon scene and Lewd for the desk scene. 

Modest takes the most from her default bo...

Not Quite NTR?: COMIC + Scene data + ELENA FIXES!!

That's right, a Comic! Or would it be a Manga? Webcomic?

Whatever it's called I made one! I also might animate this one once my hand recovers or something similar. I'm liking the lighting a lot.

Most of the text and effects were added in post, save for the steam and "sorry hubby" in the first one. I figured this way anyone can add whatever effects they want over it themselves. In case anyone is curious I used Krita for the text and effects, which is a free art program y...

Character WIP: Genshin Impact - Ganyu!

I hurt my hand earlier today so animating was painful. Character making is a lot easier to do with just one hand, albeit a lot slower.

First step of me using non-OC's. I used to play a game called Genshin Impact, which is fairly popular so most probably know of it. One of the characters I used all the time was Ganyu. Since I like her aesthetic, and her outfit was available, I figured I'd go ahead and make her.

Now, Ganyu already exists as a card for KK so Instead of making a direc...

Character Release: Elena + Halloween Scenes!

Happy Halloween!

The cheeky shorty Elena is out just in time for Halloween day! I really love how she came out so I made her a cute witch outfit and put her in a few scenes!

I decided since there's really no better day than today I'll release the Halloween scene as well! Well, it's still Halloween for me at least.

Besides the Halloween theme, I wanted to give her the vibe of a new or young wife which I think comes across. I then experimented with a new way to do hips and boo...

Halloween! Get Spook'd: Animation + Scene Data

This was actually another commission I got from a user from the KK discord (forgot to ask if he wanted to remain anonymous so I'll assume yes)

Essentially they just wanted the referenced animation as a scene-data so it was nice an easy to make. I started on short loops! I then modified it a bit further. Really goes to show how a bit of reference goes a long way when learning to animate!

I also watched a guide on arm animation so I tried to get fancy with the shoulders on this one....

Bremerton Mating Press: Animation + Scene data!

Finally done!

Bremerton base card by マキスcan be found: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/99490886

The version in the video is a modified version by the Anonymous requester. Thanks for the commission!

~This feels like it took ages, though if I track the actual hours worked it probably is about as long...

Character Release 9: Ryoka!

Quite a bit different from my usual character releases! As opposed to the soft waifus I release, she is very much a hard-body character (she still has soft assets though).

Since I'm (still) working on the mating press animation I figured I'd get something together for you guys to play with in the mean time. 

You may vaguely remember her from the vote I hosted a while back. She's had a LOT of work done on her since then. notably, I've been tweaking values to try and get someth...

Mating press WIP update: Expressions, juice FX, motion, etc

I'd say the animation is finally nearing completion.

Most of the quirks have been worked out. Besides tweaking the juice FX a bit more the rest of the animation is basically, well, just animating. As well as the grunt work of fixing clipping issues. 

So this will probably be my final WIP update on this piece. Next you hear of it should be the actual release. Just gotta put my nose to the grindstone and get it done.

As for the expressions, the reference I...

Mating press WIP update: Leglock anim and more!

More progress!

I think I got the leglock looking pretty good so I'm more confident in sharing the WIP~

Also the first part of the climax has been animated! It's going to go on for a bit longer than you see here. Basically I'm going to create what is starting to become my standard "mess". 

I also further animated the items for the new, faster pace. I'm satisfied with the vibrators movement but everything feels shakey so I'll probably go back and give them another onceove...

Mating Press WIP update: Leglock! (Map scene data)

So I followed some advice from you lads and took a rest day yesterday! I played some videogames for the first-time since I started animating which was fun. Minecraft for those curious. Reinvigorated I got back to animating today and made good progress on the scene! I actually made a LOT more progress as a result of being well-rested. So instead of something minor like the bed shaking or a toy bouncing I actually got on to pushing the animation towards the next pose. Well, minor pose shift but...

Mating-press: WIP preview 5

EXPRESSIONS!

Bremerton is starting to look a bit more animated finally. I'm having fun pulling the eyebrows around, I think it pushes the expressions further. I do feel like this is a weak point for me however. Like with my lighting/shading studies you might see expression studies come from me in the future. Since I got such good results from my last series of studies I feel like having focused goals like this helps.

I've also begun to include some secondary motion, such as Bremer...

Bonus SD release: Angelica's "Blessing".

Today was a dead-brain day. I didn't want to do much in the way of thinking, so while I got some more work done on the mating-press animation, it wasn't as much as I'd like and isn't really worth doing an update for, plus the last few posts have been nonstop WIP updates so breaking it up with a release isn't such a bad idea!

This is one of my other lighting/shader experimentation scenes. This one in particular I feel is pretty nice as a bit of minor tweaking and its just a decent skirt-...