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In the Woods, Exclusive Angle

Exclusive angle of "In the Woods" for Diamond Tier. Honestly, probably my favourite exclusive angle yet, haha. The higher quality version without Imgur compression is attached to this post.

In the Woods (Patreon Release)

Animation's finally done :D

This is a short loop, but I ended up rendering it from two angles to give the illusion that it was a bit longer. Aside from that, there's no giant post about its creation this time, lol. But like I said, there's more to this and I'm currently working on putting all the parts together to make one longer animation. 

I'd like to get a climax scene in there somehow, but with all of the different armatures and with how fiddly Blender can be with fluids,...

In the Woods (Preview)

Half resolution preview of the next animation!

I actually do have more to this, but this is just a short loop: I'm thinking I might publish it on its own so I have something to put up on e621 toward the beginning of the month, since the full video is going to take a little while to finish with what I have planned.

I promise it'll be worth it, lol. :D

New Screencaps (and an announcement!)

Hello again :3 Sorry it's been a while! It's been a pretty busy month, so I haven't had as much time to devote to this stuff as I'd like. Still, I've been working with Blender here and there, and I've finally got a little bit of something to show for it.

I wanted to do another tentacle animation, and I wanted to go back to using an HDRI for lighting since that provides the most natural-looking results. Aside from that, not a whole lot to tell about this one! lol. Though for some reason...

Double Tentacles, Exclusive Angle

Exclusive angle for Diamond Tier! :)

Animation's out on e621!

Heyo :D just a quick announcement that the double tentacle animation is out on e621 over here: https://e621.net/posts/3017841

Also thought I'd make this an image post so Stone Tier can have a screencap of the extra angle. :3 Enjoy!

Double Tentacles, Patreon Release

So after a bit of a wait, this double tentacle animation is finally finished!

I had some trouble with the animation on this one, but outside of that it wasn't too difficult -- didn't have all the crazy amounts of problems rearing their heads like usual, lol.

However, for some reason during the entire first half of the animation the denoiser wasn't working. So I figured I would be able to take the already-rendered frames and just re-composite them through the denoiser node. But n...

Double Tentacle Render

Still render of the upcoming animation for Stone Tier folk! The full early access animation should be up in a few days. ^^

Mud Wrath Exclusive Angle

Whew! Finally got this finished, lol. I would have had it out sooner, but as mentioned in the update post, there was a lot to this one I had to go back and re-render. Then last night, a few more issues stuck out and I had to re-render even more of it, lol. Overall, it's been quite the process.

One of the things I was worried about this animation was the mud sim, which is pre-baked and doesn't loop like the animation itself. So, my solution (which I'm kind of proud of, lol) was to simply...

Update on the exclusive Mud Wrath angle (and other things)

Hello again! Thought I'd drop in and give everyone an update as to what I've been up to. I know you might be wondering where the diamond-tier exclusive angle is.

I had it ready and was going to post it last night, and then I noticed a couple errors that really stuck out, and were incredibly obvious due to the new camera angle. I was hoping that I could get away with just re-rendering small sections, but unfortunately these issues affected the entire latter half of the animation.  2021-10-20 02:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Mud Wrath is now public (And I've added a goal!)

Hey folks! Just announcing that Mud Wrath is now public on e621, over here: https://e621.net/posts/2979134

I've also put up my first goal. I wasn't exactly sure how to go about this since I've never done a goal before, lol -- but since Angle 3 on Mud Wrath had a bit of traction before Angle 1 took the lead, I thought it would be reasonable to offer up Angle 3 as a reward for reaching this goal.

I didn't want to...

Thanks for the milestone! (and a first-look at the next animation)

Hey again! I just wanted to drop in and thank you all. I've reached $100/mo thanks to you folks, and I really, really appreciate you supporting my work like this.

I wish I had something more significant to say than that, haha. But in the meantime, I do have this small little preview of what I'll be doing next. This will likely be a shorter animation, but I've still got a bit of something special planned for it. You'll just have to wait and see, lol. :D

Thanks again!

2021-10-12 20:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Mud Wrath, Poll for Exclusive Angle

Bit of an experimental one this time, folks! Vote on which angle from Mud Wrath you'd like to see the entire animation rendered from.

Angle 1:

Angle 2:

Angle 3:

2021-10-08 15:42:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Mud Wrath, Patreon Release

Here it is! The full-resolution, fully-completed version of Mud Wrath with sounds and fur and all! Been a long time coming but I feel like it's been totally worth the effort, lol. There's not a lot for me to say about this animation that I haven't said already, but I'm sure I'll have some wall of text ready to go for the public release, haha.

Also, I feel like it'll be a little weird to have an "exclusive angle" for Diamond Tier for this one since the whole animation revolves around ha...

Poll for replacing the Eevee previews

This is just a simple poll for people who've seen the new Mud Wrath animation preview. In that post, I talk about how for this preview I rendered it at half resolution in Cycles instead of the usual Eevee.

I'm thinking this is probably a good plan going forward, but I wanted to hear everyone else's opinion first, lol. If you liked the Eevee previews better, just let me know. :3

So on the one hand, we have previews rendered in Cycles with better lighting quali...

September 2021 End of Month Animation Report

Hello again! Another month gone by, and not much to show for it this time -- but that doesn't mean I haven't been hard at work! 

Despite IRL stuff getting in the way, toward the beginning of this month I started work on "Mud Wrath", which you all saw a short preview loop of a few days ago.

I can't really say that this is the hardest animation I've done, but it's certainly presented me with tons of challenges, and I honestly think that the biggest setback for me right now is t...

Regarding the Mud Wrath loop, and plans going forward

Hey all!

Bit of an unusual post today, lol.

You may have noticed that I posted a short Cycles-rendered loop of my upcoming animation for all patrons. Ordinarily I wouldn't post something like this, but because it's almost been half a month with no word from me, and the animation still isn't finished, I wanted to update you all and show you something rather than nothing.

It's been a bit of a weird month; there's been lots of IRL stuff going on, and time has really been slippi...

"Mud Wrath" Preview Stills

Couple of stills from the upcoming animation "Mud Wrath", where our hyena finds himself stuck in a muddy pit of tentacles, lol.

Hyena Roast is now public!

Hey :D Just a heads up that my hyena roast animation is up on e621 over here: https://e621.net/posts/2912934

I've also moved the benefit of Eevee animation previews to Iron, as I felt that tier wasn't really getting enough, lol. And as always, thanks for all the support. ^^

Hyena Roast Diamond Exclusive

Exclusive angle for diamond tier patrons! Bit late because I ended up having to re-render this one due to me accidentally keyframing the camera and causing it to fly away, lol. 

Hyena Roast, Patreon Release

Hey all!  I super apologise for the delay on this one. Normally I wouldn't post so close to the end of the month, but this animation gave me a heck of a lot of trouble, so much so that I had to rerender large chunks of the animation several times -- and once even having to rerender it from scratch. It sucks when I think everything's fine and then random errors sneak by me at the last second, rofl. But that's just part of the process, I suppose.

ANYWAY, you guys get the animation ea...

Hyena Roast (Eevee Animation Preview)

As promised, here's the early Eevee render of my upcoming animation! This is basically the finished product, but on the final Cycles render there's a few kinks I want to iron out -- basically just the animation needs a couple more passes on smoothing out the motion. But everything else is essentially complete.

One thing about this preview render is that it doesn't include the second angle that I had wanted to do. The reason for that is mainly because the second angle is a close-up, and ...

(Almost) Mid-month animation report

Hey all :) Since it's been a bit of time, I figured I'd make a post and update everyone on where I'm at. Right now, I'm in the process of working on that animation I posted a preview of near the beginning of this month. It's going good, but as usual I ran into some road blocks during the process.

This time, the biggest challenge has been trying to figure out how to balance the motion of thrusting from different directions. The hyena's armature was originally built with inverse kinematic...

WIP images

I rendered out a few more images from the upcoming animation. I know the face angle is a bit silly, lol; I don't think I'll include that angle as part of the final animation.

I'm also still a bit undetermined as to which angle or angles will be Patreon exclusive. I almost feel like maybe I should have one be in the public animation and have the rest be here, but I also feel like if I didn't have at least two angles then the animation would end up feeling pretty sparse.

Gotta th...

Preview of the next animation

Hi again! Got a couple preview screenshots of my next animation. I did some work on the sky in this one. As I couldn't get the HDRI I was using looking right, I ended up using Blender's default "Nishita" sky, along with some clouds I ended up making procedurally. 

In addition to the sky, I went procedural with the ground as well, using noise textures to create a ground with displacement over it. I know it doesn't really look realistic, but considering how easy it was to make said t...

Plans for Page Changes

Hey again everyone! It's been an interesting month. Between work IRL and working on these animations I've been pretty busy. 

Speaking of that, this last month has shown a fairly distinct lack of growth on this page; which is fine -- I know feral hyenas aren't everyone's cup of tea. I do intend to diversify my roster of characters, and I've got a few other models in the works; it'll just take a while before I have them ready, as making a character is an extremely long and difficult ...

Next animation released!

New animation is out, this time with fluid physics. Check it out over here https://e621.net/posts/2838780

Poll For Exclusive Angles

Hi there! This is the first one of these polls, so I'm pretty excited to see how it goes. Anyway, recently I've been thinking about ways to improve this page, and have been considering various changes that could make that possible.

One thing I'd like to potentially implement is the inclusion of an extra animation angle for subscribers. 

Since rendering is such a time-consuming process, my initial idea was to have this reward be included as part of a new tier. That tier, if it...

First look at fluids

Hey all! It's been a while but I've finally got fluids working! This is actually something I've been wanting to do for the past couple of years, but due to ongoing technical difficulties and my lack of knowledge, I never got it working right.

Anyway, what you're seeing is a render (albeit from a different angle) from my upcoming animation, and the third (and maybe final) part of this specific "hyena on a rock" series. For this scene, I really wanted there to be a good climax, and gettin...

New animation released!

Completed the first part of the little two-parter I've been showing you folks. You can check it out over on e621, here: https://e621.net/posts/2823758