Animation Progress
Hello, everyone!
So far, Batcat is chugging along exactly on schedule. I was able to get the apartment-exterior sequence done, including what I think may actually be the first walk cycle I've animated by hand, for better and for worse.
Usually, if I need a character to locomote, I do everything in my power to keep the shot waist-up and just slide them along while bobbing their hips up and down. On the occasions where the shot composition...
2025-04-15 10:04:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I have decided to put this week's Progress Report in the Misc Bin tier, because it is as much a showcase of some writing efforts as it is a Progress Report in the traditional sense.
Batcat
The Batcat lewd scene has been fully blocked out and sent out for dubbing! The core scene clocks in at 3:29, with a few flourishes before and after that are too much of a headache to properly account for.
In total, the video is currently running +8...
2025-04-09 01:19:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I didn't quite manage to make my goal for this week, but it wasn't for a lack of trying. I was aspiring to get the whole of the studio scene finished by today, so I could send it out for dubbing. I did manage to get the sequence up to when the animation loops I had shown off last week come into play, though, which is a significant inroad into the effort.
However, my PC woes have decided to rear their ugly head again, and roughly half the week was ...
2025-04-01 09:46:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Last week's Progress Report ended on a cliffhanger, as I set out to reinstall Windows, and the myriad uncertainties as to how that would go. I am supremely pleased to report that the Windows reinstall went flawlessly, and I am once again operating with the full wind behind me. I haven't had any performance issues whatsoever since the reinstall, and I was able to get all of my major programs reinstalled and reconnected effortlessly. We truly do live in t...
2025-03-25 07:31:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Last week, I noted how my goals for this week was to build the new Barbara model, and have her fully faceposed and in Source - with a stretch goal of getting her outfit made as well. I managed to complete that, and more.
In the end, I managed to get Barbara built and faceposed, with two different hairstyles, and her sweats outfit for the project. I also completely rebuilt the old strapon model (from 2013! My god!) she will be using from scratch, and
2025-03-18 08:31:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
As I noted last week, as of 11:59PM yesterday, the Batcat storyboard has been officially locked down!
Innie and I managed to cut the storyboard from 11.5 minutes down to 7.5 minutes. We could have gone even more aggressive, but we had hit the point where any further cuts would start to compromise Innie's vision - and since we had managed to get it under the 8-minute threshold I'm aiming for, I decided we didn't need to cut any further.
2025-03-11 23:09:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize for this post being a day late (as they so often are). As Monday closed out, I was less than 10 shots away from finishing the Batcat storyboard, and so decided to delay a day to get it done so I have something complete to post.
Without further adieu, you can click here to watch the full 11-minute draft.
2025-03-05 08:53:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize for being a little late with today's post. The spontaneous decision to release the Bluesky pinups today meant that I wanted to give it a day before making another Patreon post - I hate barraging peoples' inboxes with notifications.
And boy howdy, is it a doozy....
2025-02-26 01:40:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey, everyone!
You won't believe how many cobwebs I had to work my way through to get this post up onto this Misc Bin tier. Needed a bloody machete to cut through them all, it's been so long since I last posted anything to this tier.
Over the past week and a half, I've been posting daily 4k pinups over to Bluesky, as a means of getting the new account out th...
2025-02-25 05:23:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize for this week's Progress Report being late. I wanted to launch into this week's Report with a fully finished draft of the Batcat screenplay, but that isn't going to happen. I considered delaying this post till the screenplay is done, but that could be as late as Friday - it's a big screenplay, with 118 shots currently accounted for, with 5 of 7 scenes adapted.
Needless to say, there is no way this is fitting into an 8-minute window. Ju...
2025-02-19 02:50:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I've decided to make this week's Progress Report available for all paying members, since it is a significant capstone on the Overbreed effort.
For this week, I've managed to put together the storyboard for the post-Sombra narrative interstitial, which closes out the video. My initial projections I've been making, based on how the other interstitials had gone and what I wanted to cover, had this one clocking in around 5 minutes.
In the end, I managed to shave...
2025-02-11 02:37:54 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize for this Progress Report being a day late, but I was within spitting distance of finally finishing off the Sombra sequence when Monday closed, and so I decided to delay for a proper announcement!
The Sombra sequence of Overbreed Episode 1 is FINISHED!
It clocks in at a hearty 34.5 minutes, and is by my estimates approximately half the total content of the planned video. This falls in line neatly when I place it up against the sto...
2025-02-05 06:45:18 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize for this update being late - as I was prepping to write this post Monday evening, InsideIncognita jumpscared me with the first draft of her Batcat story. I was immediately sold and jumped into SFM to build a quick mood-piece that pulled a few scenes from her draft.
I wanted to make sure that it was all in-line with what she had in mind before I shared it, though. And so I decided to wait until we managed to discuss this evening and get...
2025-01-29 09:06:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize once more for this Monday Progress Report coming out on Tuesday. It ended up being pretty late Sunday evening when I got back from helping my friends move their in-law out of the house over the weekend. I ended up spending Monday just recuperating from that. To which, I have two things to say:
Firstly, fuck Sleep Number beds and their steel-frame bullshit.
Secondly, if I ever had any doubts that the thigh-high joint is a ball-joint before, I cert...
2025-01-21 20:09:32 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I apologize for yet another delayed Progress Report. I was out of town for the weekend, helping set up, attending, and then helping break down some friends' baby-shower. It was a fun event, but it also resulted in it not being till late Monday evening before I got home, and by that time I had neither the energy nor the content for a Progress Report.
This past week was spent entirely working on game design for the brothel manager game. I did not intend for it take a...
2025-01-15 07:21:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
It's the first Progress Report of the new year, and it's started out fairly strong on my end. I hope it's started strong on your end, too!
I say "fairly strong" because, well, you may have noticed this Progress Report being made on Tuesday, rather than the scheduled Monday. And that's because Monday ended up being a particularly bad day for my executive function.
Other than that though, the rest of the new year has been going strong!
As I mentioned las...
2025-01-08 10:23:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
It's the end of the year, and the end of my Blender explorations for now. And since it's the end of the year, I've decided to make this Progress Report visible for all Patrons.
The last thing I fiddled with was revisiting breast physics, namely collisions and jiggle. It's a poetic symmetry, ending the experiments where I began. This time around, I used cloth simulations, and they worked so much better than the soft-body I started with that it's fr...
2024-12-31 22:59:54 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I hope you're all having a great end of the year, and enjoying time with your friends, families, and loved ones. I come bearing Christmas gifts in the form of a Progress Report! Whether or not that's equivalent to a lump of coal, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
This past week was mostly spent on more Blender simulations and game brainstorming. Of the handful of tests I did, far and away the most successful was the hair-sim tests, seen here.
I can't ove...
2024-12-25 02:23:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I apologize for the Progress Report being a day late. I ended up not sleeping at all from Sunday into Monday, meaning that by the time Monday proper rolled around I was pushing 24+ hours of being awake and was not at all in a position to really make a Progress Report post. Insomnia and fucked sleep schedules are one hell of a combination. Do not recommend. One out of five on Yelp.
I'm now properly rested and in a much better state, and so here we are!
Last w...
2024-12-18 08:38:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
The Frozen dub recording is currently in process. I have absolutely no idea when the audio will be ready, and frankly, I'm not concerned about it right now.
The esteemed MimiHung, who voiced Anna and Elsa in the opening sequence all those years ago (as well as Mei in Overbreed Episode 0!), was more than willing to reprise her role and voice the ladies. I won't lie, I was concerned if she would be or if I'd need to recast - a lot can happen in two ...
2024-12-10 13:02:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone.
Last week, in the wake of the public & 2160p release of TO BREED & BOND, I put out two large blog posts. The first post was a postmortem on the video, breaking down the tortured development cycle and investigating ways to avoid it from happening again.
Far more relevant to this post and all of you is the second post, which is a
2024-12-03 23:39:28 +0000 UTC
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Runtime: 14:33
@BordeauxBlackVA - Pharah, Ana
@SilkyMilkVoices - D.Va, Tracer
@_PixieWillow - Emily
@MidnightDatura - Symmetra
Exclusive 2160p Release: November 22
Public 720p Release: November 22
Fareeha "Pharah" Amari and Satya "Symmetra" Vaswani, li...
2024-11-18 06:26:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
We're getting close to release now. Very close. This isn't a hard commitment, but I think it is fairly likely that this will be the last Progress Report before the video finally gets released. And it's about fucking time, too.
There was a time when I thought I'd have this video done and out the door by the end of July. I genuinely, honestly, and sincerely don't even know how the hell this video has ended up taking 3 fucking months longer to produc...
2024-11-12 07:01:37 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
All of the labor-intensive VFX work for the Pharmmetra project is done! All that's left to do is color-grading and motion blur, but neither of those are labor-intensive, and I am leaving them till the very end.
I have now shifted my focus to the sound design. As of today, I have all of the critical audio tracks generated and exported. The only audio track left to be generated is the non-sex Foley, but I am intentionally going to leave that till the end of this pro...
2024-11-06 04:30:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I've decided to make this available to all paying Patrons, due to the final section of this post and the ramifications it has for the release date. It's nothing cataclysmic, but it is a delay. And I think everyone should know about it.
Where We Are
As of yesterday evening (circa 10:30PM on Sunday October 27), all of the principle 4K footage for the Pharmmetra project has been rendered! This isn't including anything I may have missed and ne...
2024-10-29 10:17:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I've decided to make this post public to all, because we've hit the biggest milestone!
The final 4K render has begun!
I think I've got the animation just about as good as I am going to get it, without burning untold weeks more than I already have. I'm not 100% happy with it, but "perfect" is the enemy of "good enough", and I think the project is very far along the "good enough" spectrum at this point.
I've done some napkin math based...
2024-10-22 08:38:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
So fun fact, I didn't realize I used the same exact shot for a point of comparison this week as I did last week. Total coincidence that it just has the best representation of the changes made, within the first project file.
With that being said!
Every day, we step closer to the finish line. All of the jitter animation is done across the 15-minute project, as well as all of the camera choreography / animation. I'm now working on fixing hair clipping. I've got...
2024-10-15 21:53:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Things are chugging along. I've gotten the first 12 minutes all jittered, with 3 minutes left to go. Gonna be a bit of a crapshoot as to how quickly those final 3 minutes will go, as half of them involve 4 characters (slows jitter down), but 2 of them are mostly just talking (speeds jitter up).
Howdy, everyone.
Progress is chugging along. All of the lip-sync is finally done, and I have moved onto the jitter phase. It's a subtle thing, but I think it personally adds a lot to the "completeness" of an animation. Take, for consideration, this Progress Report's poster.
In the bottom image, Pharah is standing perfectly still while Symmetra talks. Top, she has a notable sway to her body as sher watches. Makes her feel more lively, rather than an unanimated 3d model. Or Symmetra...
2024-10-01 20:17:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone.
Pharmmetra's still not done. Apparently, I grossly underestimated just how long the lewd-sound lip-syncing will take. I thought it'd take 2 or 3 days. We're approaching, like, 3 weeks now.
The project is split into 3 files, which I'll call Alpha, Beta, and Gamma for clarity. I have fully finished all of the lewd lip-syncing for Pharah and Symmetra across all three project files. Tracer and Emily only exist in Alpha and are completely lip-synced. Ana only exists in...
2024-09-24 22:00:51 +0000 UTC
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