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WIP update: Almost!

First, bad news, I managed to catch covid. Worse news is I'm missing Christmas with the family because of it too! The good news though is I'm almost done with this stretch of the animation and am about ready to do another scene release! I want to eventually swap to the second character but I'm now debating with myself if I make that a separate scene just to make it easier on myself. There is something about a single long animation though.

Also sorry for the slight delay between WI...

WIP update: Catching up!

That's right, I'm hopping back onto this scene! It's like Yuna never left!

I actually got pretty busy with this scene. I went back to a lot of previous parts and cleaned up stuff I thought was pretty rough, pushed the animation further and am prepping for another climax scene. I also managed to catch up both characters with each other!

Originally I wanted to do the Sua scene first but the concept I came up for it I ended up not liking so I'm going to try and come up with something...

Animation Tutorial Part 1

That's right, it's a part one. I realized there's quite a lot so the first part covers what I would call the basics. I'm thinking of doing a second part where I make an animation from start to finish and explain my process as I go. I might even do it live if there's interest in that. I feel like that would allow people to ask me questions as I work.

Don't judge me too harshly, this is my first time recording myself so I flub my words from time to time. I'm also learning my mic quality i...

WIP: Tutorial + I'm back!

I'm back home! I went out of town for a few days for my birthday. Since the client wasn't able to reach back out for his animation I decided to actually slip in that tutorial I keep promising to make.

This has actually been a work in progress for a longish time it's just about time I actually sat down and made it lol. Every time I got close enough to make it, I'd discover some new mod or technique that changes everything and I'll need to start figuring out how to add it into my workflo...

Lazy Lina: Animation + Scene data

Suddenly a completed animation!

Kind of out of the blue I know. I was waiting for the last client to reach out about his commission and since he hadn't reached back out I started just doing some animation practice and then I just got kind of lost in the workflow and just kept working on it!

The idea is that Karet got into the stamina potions and didn't realize how potent they were so Lina ordered some food, turned on the TV and has been managing his "stamina" until the potion wear...

Bonus scene!

Holidays are here so I have family over and as a result it's been, uh, "difficult" to get any animation done to say the least. After Thanksgiving I should be back on the usual grind.

Until then I've put together a bonus scene! I used the SeanVR model I made as the subject and I think it turned out pretty good. It's a study of a miku artwork I saw that I can't find anymore. If you want the "cutoff" look for your character you might have to adjust the camera up/down a little bit. You can ...

Reverse-cowgirl: Animation + scene data!

Finally done! I would have finished earlier if I didn't feel the need to extend it just a little bit. The client didn't want any of the stomach swelling for the climax so it's not included in this scene not that I had the time to add it in anyways lol. I'm already way over the time on this one.

There are 3 variants of the scene this time with the usual "pick your poison". An important note though is you might need to adjust the chest of the character to work for the pose. I did a few pe...

WIP update: Getting into it a bit too much!

I got lost in the sauce and just kept animating. The client initially just paid for a 15s animation and it's already at 16s and I haven't done the climax yet! I added in a bit extra because I was just having fun with it and felt it would make the overall scene better!

Sorry for the delay between WIP updates. I ended up scrapping the original ending to make this so I spent a few days on that and then took 1 day off which is why the timing is weird. It's not like it was animated poorly, I...

WIP update: Bounce Bounce

Pushed the animation a little further. I like the little thing I did with the hips I'm pretty happy with it cause it feels playful. I had forgotten the client only commissioned a short anim so I'll have to make a few adjustments so it goes smoothly into the end but otherwise I'm fairly happy with the work done so far.

Regardless it's just a short WIP update!

Thanks for checking it out!

Character Release: SeanVR

I got commissioned by SeanVR to make their Vtuber model in koi and with their permission they said I could release the model! I learned a lot making it, including how to make some bits glow. I had a basic understanding of it before but I really just used it to make eyes glow. Gives me some ideas for scenes down the line too! I think I did a pretty good job within the restrictions of Koi. I tried to be as true to the original as possible but my own preferences and style will bleed in inevitabl...

WIP: Reverse cowgirl!

Onto the next commission finally. Still fixing the hole in my house but it's workable right now.

You mostly just missed the setup-phase as now I have a little bit of animation on the table! The character is the clients OC, Mallow if you're wondering.

Obviously lots of things like expressions, general body motion and whatnot that still needs to be worked on but I thought it was a pretty pleasant loop as-is so it was a good spot to make a quick preview render

th...

Dead day: My floor collapsed

Originally I planned on posting a WIP of the next comm today but about 2 days ago my floor collapsed and I've been spending the last few days repairing it. At first I thought it was just some minor damage but the more I worked on it the more I realized there was more damage than first thought. I should be finished with the repairs by tomorrow though.

Apparently there was a leak in my walls that rotted some wood and caused the floor to break near the walls. It's a pretty sizeable hole a...

Halloween Slam! Animation + Scene data!

It's out!

Card by valiance: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/107684338

Spent the better part of the day fixing some crashes but it works flawlessly now.

There are 3 versions of the scene file

1. The untouched original for your viewing pleasure

2. a modified version with simplified expressions and additional controls for the arms and body added in the workspace to easily resize a...

WIP: Looking done! but not quite

You may be thinking to yourself "this looks mighty finished, why is this a WIP update and not a release"

That is because after some testing, it's pretty much impossible to swap out the characters for other ones without them breaking the animation. So I'm going to spend tomorrow/later today (timezones) working on making variations of the scenes for easy swapping but unlike my other ones I'll need to do a lot of adjusting. Also need to make the no deformation scene file.

However, I ...

WIP update: I feel sorry for the fence

At my current pace I should make it by Halloween!

I'm getting a lot of animation done for this at a much faster pace than usual. I think I'm just more motivated by a "due date" lol. I also like the concept a lot which helps.

The males face hasn't been animated yet so he's in perpetual shock right now lol. I almost put the mask on his face to cover it but I need to start animating male expressions so now's a good time as any. I had a lot of fun squeezing in little detail...

WIP: Next one!

Alright this took me a minute to do all the setup work for.

I ended up throwing together a custom environment since I couldn't find anything halloween themed and I threw together a shorter male model since all of the ones I typically use are actually quite tall lol. I figured I'd also give him actual eyes too.

The scene will be a doggy style one but female led. The mental image I have for the scene is pretty strong so I'm hoping the animation will go smoothly. Of course, things mi...

Full Nelson Release!: Animation + Scene data!

I wanted to post a WIP last night but I felt like I could finish it up by today so I delayed it a night!

Add some fun details like a little bit of 'water" sticking to the screen and for those not into it I added a variant without any of the deformation (here's hoping it actually works this time). As usual the chika versions are best for swapping. A few tweaks might need to be made. First, just move the folder with the girl to repose them if positioned incorrectly. Second, there's a chan...

WIP update!: A little bit of motion!

And a bigger chest! the client reached back out and asked to "expand the assets" and so I complied.

Most of the animation is my usual affair. What you're seeing is a bit of facial expression and a base layer of animation. I still need to do a second pass to complicate the movement a bit. Getting her booty to jiggle a bit was a task! I actually want to say I'm about halfway done. Like I said this anim is actually pretty short so it should be finished within the week!

just a short...

WIP: Back on the grind!

Some might have noticed I ended up reopening my commissions again so I'm back to working on some of those in the mean time. Originally I wanted to finish the cowgirl scene first but I realized I was just really slow with it as I kept redoing parts over and over. I guess I'm my own worst critic lol. Before I knew it, it was already October. So I decided to reopen commissions to take a bit of a break and knock out some shorter scenes again.

For this one the client wanted Noelle getting fu...

WIP update: A little more + Bonus scene

I managed to get myself pretty sick this week. Was out with a somewhat serious cold and couldn't focus on doing stuff that required higher brain function like animating since I was basically high on cold medicine the entire time. As a result I through together a nice simple scene while I was recovering but when I wasn't down bad I was able to squeeze in some more animation so I'm a bit further there as well.

Not shown was also me toying around with a few scene ideas for Sua. I have one...

WIP update: She's back!

Alright she's back in the scene doing some little background things. Mostly just recording on the phone.

I ended up catching her up about 20s in. She needs a little more to be completely caught up. I swear I've deleted more animation that I've made of her at this point lol. I just couldn't make up my mind for what I wanted her to be doing. It's still pretty rough in its current state but the major acting beats are about right. I just want to get the timing down a little better.

I ...

WIP update: More more!

Pushed the animation further and I figured out what I wanted to do with our extra girl. However her animation hasn't "caught up" yet so she's still invisible for this preview. She'll be back by the next WIP update as catching her up will be my main focus.

Hard to tell cause of the low quality of the preview render but yes, she does get heart eyes once she really gets into it. I went and did a second pass on the expressions tweaking a few things.

Feels good to get another 30s of a...

WIP update: Finally some action!

There's actually a LOT more animation done than what I have rendered but I wasn't happy with it. Mostly just our favorite background gal. Originally I wanted her walking into frame but I just couldn't make the walk cycle look natural which means it's for sure something I'm going to need to work on in future practice sessions so for now I have her toggled off while I try to figure out what I want to do with her in case you're wondering where she went lol.

I decided for my own sanity to j...

WIP update + Scene file preview release!

Alright, it's taking me a bit longer to do the next part of the scene as it requires a bit more setup work so I can properly change the poses (mostly for the BG character)

However, I kind of feel like it's been a long dang time since my last scene release lol. So I thought it'd be fun to drop a sort of "demo" of the scene file while it's still being worked on since I thought the HJ portion feels somewhat complete. Though I for sure will go back and touch it up down the line.

I hav...

Character vote: Sua wins!

I honestly didn't expect it to be as close as it was. Everyone was in a handful of votes from each other!

Sua did squeeze out a victory though!

As far as I'm aware there's no existing model for her I can use in studio so I'll be making one myself which might take me a bit but once it's done I'll also share the model as well.

Also a thought I've had is possibly adding the runner up to the next vote automatically? Let me know if this is a good idea or if you want a completely ...

WIP update: back on it!

Alright, burnout over and my mini vacation is done! back on the grind. Went ahead and finished reworking that section again. I like the way it is now acting-wise so I'm going to go with this and clean it up some more!

While I think the beats themselves are good I need to work on smoothing it out a lot. Notably the part where she gets up off the desk is a bit rough.

So hopefully this is the last time you'll see these 20 seconds reworked lol.

anyways enjoy the WIP upda...

Character Vote!

Alright, I got enough suggestions to actually hold a vote!

Whomever wins the vote will have an animation made of them (and a card if they don't have one, don't expect anything great though lol). My plan is to slot said animation into my usual workload, so you'll see WIP updates and the like of any work featuring them like any other scene I make.

If this does well I'll try to do votes for things like scenes or themes as well~

I'll be doing the vote on strawpoll ...

Dead day! + bonus character

Sorry for the lack of a WIP update recently. I was pretty unhappy with how a part of the anim looked so while I was reworking it I ended up not really doing anything new. I got a bit burnt out so I took a few days off to just chill for a bit which I figured was the correct course of action.

I did manage to push the animation a bit further but it's just a few extra seconds. Not really worth rendering out for an update quite yet. The part I was redoing was the hand motion again. I was sti...

WIP update: Extending the HJ out

Alright, I figured literally 5 seconds of hand action might have been a bit too little so I extended it out a little longer and honestly, I might even add some more but if I do I'll add it in later once I get a feel for the entire scene.

I am happy that I extended it out a bit more though. I was falling into my usual trap of making stuff happen way to fast.

I do need to put in some time to smooth out some of the rougher parts between the original motions however.

I also thi...

WIP update: as usual "fluid simulation" is hard

Especially when you can't simulate fluids and have to manually animate every strand by hand! I still feel like I need to do some more with it too. For sure I need to smooth out the motions some but I feel the first climax is taking a bit. After this of course will be the insertion because I can't let this poor guy have a 1 and done!

I'm also thinking of cutting this part, moving it down the timeline and extending the HJ portion out a bit. I was so focused on how I was going to animate t...