Rendering is done. It was a bit of an ordeal, but I think that means I have rendering set from now on. I've just been rendering with AVI since I had trouble using image sequences with my video editor. The problem with AVI is that the file size is massive, and after a certain point SFM seems to corrupt them. That's why I try to keep clips broken into short pieces, and it makes rendering a chore.
Along the way, basically every scene had some sort of fix needed. Mostly it was clipping issu...
2019-09-20 17:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Polishing is done, and it's time to render. With the settings of 1080p at 128 samples, it should take about 4 hours or so to render the whole movie. Of course, there's a bit more to it than that. Since I render with clips rather than image sequences, I don't want to render the whole movie at once. I have to render it out in parts, so I can't just leave the whole thing to render at once. Additionally, I'll have to make some fixes along the way that slipped through polishing.
Ultimately, ...
2019-09-18 20:20:16 +0000 UTC
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All major animation for the movie is done! It's just polish left for it to be render ready. It'll probably take at least a day or two to do all the polishing.
Rendering is another point. It's usually not long enough to factor in for shorter loops since those only take about 15-20 minutes to render. This is a full movie though, and it will probably take at least a couple hours to render. Additionally, I'm considering a new patreon tier with some alternate versions. For example, versions ...
2019-09-12 19:25:58 +0000 UTC
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Just a couple of WIPs for this weekend since last update was mid week.
Scene 4 - Gfycat (Sound)
Scene 5 - Gfycat (Sound)
2019-09-07 16:24:51 +0000 UTC
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Gina's debut as Jack!
The scene is 26 seconds long and almost entirely done. Mainly, I need to do Jack's finger posing. There's some other polish to do, and I could probably do to improve the slap.
Gfycat (Sound)
2019-09-05 02:42:06 +0000 UTC
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An earlier update to make up for the other ones! I've made some great progress so this is a full update report.
As mentioned, I have all audio in from the voice actors. It's been added into SFM and paced out to the scenes. The audio actually extends out the scene with Jack and the finale. On the flip side, I think I'm going to cut the two really short Grunt scenes. Mainly, with the audio in place, they don't really fit the pacing well. It's not that significant though since they only ad...
2019-09-05 02:32:44 +0000 UTC
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The first scene with its audio. Animation is near complete, it is mostly just lacking polish.
Gfycat (Sound)
2019-08-31 20:47:42 +0000 UTC
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FemShep with some batarians.
Clean
Messy
2019-08-22 18:05:45 +0000 UTC
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Here's a couple of animations in progress.
Scene 1
Scene 2
The scenes are lacking in polish, but the core loop is in place to record for audio. Lip sync, facial expressions, and variation depend on the voice acting.
2019-08-17 21:35:41 +0000 UTC
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Technically, a day late but also pretty much on schedule. I waited to post until I had everything I wanted ready.
To start with, animation is going really well. The base animations are done for 8 of the 10 scenes. The only scenes with no animation are the intro and Jack's scene. The base animations mostly account for core loop motion. The pacing is more or less final but the scenes will be lacking polish. Lip sync, facial expressions, and variations will all require the voice acting. I'...
2019-08-17 20:58:07 +0000 UTC
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I'm linking the storyboard in case anyone doesn't want to spoil all the scenes as I grouped them into one image. The script is uploaded as an attachment.
Storyboard
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Cut Content
The movie mostly has generic male crew, but there is also Jack and Grunt. I considered adding even more cameos but decided to cut them. Ultimately, they over complicated a project that's meant to ...
2019-08-09 21:17:31 +0000 UTC
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The storyboard and script have been finalized. It took longer than expected since I waffled with a few scenes and the intro. Ultimately, I decided to cut out some of them and keep the intro as simple as possible. One of the main points of this project is to keep it short, so I've kept to that 90 second max.
As I mentioned last week, the storyboard is actually quite high quality. All the poses and lighting are basically at final tier. This is more complete than most of Undercover ASSignm...
2019-08-09 20:50:47 +0000 UTC
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Poster from an early scene in the movie. Nearly finished quality pose and lighting.
2019-08-02 21:23:25 +0000 UTC
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This is going to be a brief update because I wanted the script and storyboard done for the end of this week, and they're not quite ready.
That said, I think it is going really well, and it will probably only take a few more days to finish. The total run time should be around 90 seconds. I think that's going to be my hard limit so this project doesn't run away. I've got an ambitious number of scenes from short to medium in length that make up the whole project.
A majority of the sc...
2019-08-02 21:18:50 +0000 UTC
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It was simple enough and she's quite popular, so I finished another one of the Cassie posters.
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2019-07-30 20:09:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, I got back earlier in the week and I'm already at work in SFM. I finished up a set of posters for a commission, I'm just waiting on the commissioner's response to post them. I've also been tinkering with some posters of my own while waiting for the polls to finish.
The polls are going quite well. Unsurprisingly, the group Normandy short is winning for Miranda. The second two polls are quite close though. Ashley has a slight edge on FemShep. Currently, Morrigan and Isabela are ...
2019-07-26 21:38:21 +0000 UTC
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The Lust of Skyhold - Morrigan (desire demon futa gangbang)
Morrigan consults with ancient demons of Skyhold to learn of their powers. They'll tell her everything so long as she provides them satisfaction...
Sweet Dreams - Cassandra (qunari gangbang)
Cassandra Pentaghast is adept at fighting demons. What happens when the greatest demon is her own desire?
Pirate Booty - Isabela (gangbang)
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2019-07-18 19:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The Promotion - Ashley (human gangbang)
Shepard saved the Citadel with Garrus and Wrex at her side. What, exactly, did Ashley Williams do to get her promotion?
Dirty Business - Liara (mixed alien gangbang)
It wasn't easy getting started as a fresh information broker on Illium. An early tip led her to a meeting between a krogan businessman and the eclipse mercenaries. Luckily for her, they ordered some exotic entertainment for th...
2019-07-15 19:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Pure Krogan (with Grunt)
What happens when pure krogan and human meet? They bang.
The Normandy's Bitch (with various)
Everyone has a turn with the ship's new fuck-toy.
Citadel Romance (with MaleShep)
Miranda and Shepard enjoy their new apartment.
2019-07-11 19:00:00 +0000 UTC
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I'm going on vacation, and I'll be gone for about a week and a half. While I'm out, I'm going to run polls for short movie pitches. I've extensively re-done the scenebuild for my Mass Effect movie, but it's such a big project. I want to build up to it with a few short movies.
I'm going to run 3 polls while I'm out. The first will be about Miranda. The idea is to show off the new model and more of ZeroDiamond's voice acting. The second poll will be about Mass Effect but feature other cha...
2019-07-10 18:46:09 +0000 UTC
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The winner for the poll! I added some basic sound.
Gfycat
Mega
2019-07-10 00:32:39 +0000 UTC
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It was a close poll, and I really liked the pose, so here's the second place consolation prize poster.
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2019-07-07 17:12:26 +0000 UTC
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Ivy (option B) takes the victory with another close poll! She wins with 8 votes going for this pose while Cassie had 7 and 6 votes for her options A and B, respectively. I'm going to see how it goes animating this one. Particularly, I'm not sure how well I can utilize any of her in game audio, so sound is not a guarantee.
Cassie is still popular enough, and I really liked some of her poses, so I want to at least finish off her second place pose for a poster.
2019-06-24 21:42:08 +0000 UTC
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Layout:
Ivy A Cassie A
Ivy B Cassie B
Ivy C Cassie C
Since I'm indecisive, I made a bunch of drafts for each character. Multiple choice because there's so many options. The goal is to animate the winner, and I'd like to complete the poster for a runner up or two.
Although I don't know too ...
2019-06-21 18:50:38 +0000 UTC
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This is my first completed loop in a long time. I think it came out quite well, but it took waaay too long to make. It took something like 30-40 hours to do, and loops normally take me about half of that. This one is longer than usual, but I spent a lot of time adjusting the length and changing the audio.
Gfycat
2019-06-19 03:41:57 +0000 UTC
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I have updated Undercover ASSignment to include the new scene build and Miranda model. At least, all but a few exceptions. It was an incredibly tedious process because the movie is broken up into so many different save files. I had to update each save one at a time. As such, I have skipped scenes 1 and 2 for now. SFM can only copy to one clip at a time, and scenes 1 and 2 are broken up into about 20 different clips each. That's more work than the rest of the movie combined. Additionally, ther...
2019-06-01 02:14:05 +0000 UTC
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Been playing mostly Borderlands lately, and I had Maya on my mind. This pose came out nicely, so I wanted to finish it.
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2019-05-30 15:39:39 +0000 UTC
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I want to go over the results from last week's character survey as well as talk about possibilities for content.
Starting with Mass Effect, Miranda takes the easy first overall with 8 votes. Ashley is second for ME characters and third overall with 4. Rather surprisingly, there's only a few more ME representatives. Liara (x2), FemShep (x1), Jack (x1), Oriana (x1), and Samara (x1). Perhaps people expected Mass Effect content so they didn't include more? I actually made the total for 10 c...
2019-05-24 22:23:22 +0000 UTC
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I got pretty overwhelmed with poster ideas and kind of burnt out having to do editing, so I haven't released anything in a while. Isabela's booty was too good to quit though.
Picture 1
Picture 2
2019-05-21 21:26:16 +0000 UTC
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