Happy holidays everyone.
A quick update on the state of things. While real life issues still have a very noticeable impact on productivity decent progress was made, especially during November and December. Really wish this inconsistency would finally end but ultimately, it's one of those things that's outside of our control and we just have to push through it. Hopefully next year will be less of a stress generator somehow.
Besides the Loyalty animation progress there was a few doz...
2024-01-01 01:24:01 +0000 UTC
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LOYALTY (ELLIE/JESSE ANIMATION SHORT)
Images based on the upcoming animation. These are not part of animation itself though, just some fun with posing.



2023-09-01 03:08:12 +0000 UTC
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DOUBLE UP (New Released Short)
A short animation initially intended as a test to see if it'd be possible to animate liquids the way they were done for static images before. To avoid pesky and time-consuming simulations. Grew up into a full short, with sound and other bells and whistles.
Additionally, it's a test for allowing us to produce 60fps animations going forward. This requires some preliminary actions during project's production, on top of doubling render tim...
2023-07-31 21:43:25 +0000 UTC
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Characters are 18+ years of age and were modeled as such.
Sequel to this post: LINK!
(TIER 2) ANIMATION ARCHIVE (1080p/4K): LINK!
(T...
2023-07-31 21:39:12 +0000 UTC
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2023-07-31 21:35:02 +0000 UTC
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Updated the bathroom scene to look less like a barren desert, including select original meshes to better match Ellie's specific bathroom layout.

Random pose variations. No facial animation yet, so same facial expression across the board for now.


Niprub! 2023-04-16 22:47:09 +0000 UTC
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Characters are 18+ years of age and were modeled as such.
ANIMATION ARCHIVE (1080p/4K): LINK!
Animation Archive>Animations>Shorts
CATBOX (720p): LINK!
2023-03-11 02:45:29 +0000 UTC
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Sincere apologies for lack of news lately. Health issues since late December made it near impossible to spend more than 10 minutes in front of a PC, but it's dealt with now. At least to a degree where some solid work can be done in a single session.
BOUND
Most primary and secondary animations are complete.
All that's left is facial animation and lighting!
A bunch of random previews:

2023-01-30 23:02:45 +0000 UTC
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BOUND
Animation work is well under way. Louis' bathrobe had to be done from scratch since none of the available resources were suitable enough. Worth it for the best physics sim quality too! Violet will be occupying the couch in the background, absent in this preview for now.
BOUND PREVIEW VIDEO
FIRST AID
Classi...
2022-12-07 00:25:06 +0000 UTC
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SURVEY RESULTS WINNER!
TWD characters won the latest survey, which means their specific appearances, outfits and scene will require some touchups. For fresh looks and variety.
Clem's long(er) hair, it's physics and potential outfit.
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/redglumwhippoorwill
The scene that you've seen previously got expanded with a workbench area. Act...
2022-11-05 21:36:32 +0000 UTC
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Which setting would you prefer for a short animation?
2022-09-30 00:46:57 +0000 UTC
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THIRST UP - LIGHTING CHANGES
It turns out the lighting setup from a previous pose didn't carry well at all into this one. Since this segment's animation is mostly complete (barring some secondary animations), previewing it became a constant eye sore due to the harsh lighting. Hence this new update showcasing some of the lighting changes being iterated on so morale stops dropping every time it comes time to preview it.
Here's an example of the old lighting and so...
2022-09-30 00:46:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks.
Sorry for no news lately. IRL issues were taking a toll which resulted in limited productivity, among other aspects. Thankfully things are improving and we're ramping back up to proper daily productivity levels.
THIRST UP
Jessie's on our standardized rig now, so no more time wasted on sculpting corrective shapes for every pose every time. Facial mocap compatibility and other neat features are in too, which'll save time and mental energy going fo...
2022-08-31 21:44:12 +0000 UTC
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Download using the link(s) below!

ARCHIVE DOWNLOAD (HQ): https://www.patreon.com/posts/48884295
IMAGE SET LINKS:
FULL ALBUM (LQ): https://imgur.com/a/DUYGS14
FULL ALT ALBUM (LQ): 2022-05-18 09:37:33 +0000 UTC
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Characters are 18+ years of age and were modeled as such.
ANIMATION ARCHIVE (1080p/4K): LINK!
Animation Archive>Animations>Shorts
CATBOX (720p): LINK!
2022-04-23 23:11:30 +0000 UTC
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CLEM / LOUIS ANIMATION
Last and this month was dedicated to this one. The final to-do list consisted of small fixes and tweaks, which is done. Sound is complete, jiggles are simulated, off to the render stage now- And rendered frames are busted. Left breast cache refused to animate. Noticed too late and now have to re-render it all. Fun times. Release should be soon if that doesn't happen again.
NEXT ANIMATION
This will most likely be an Ellie th...
2022-04-15 20:57:33 +0000 UTC
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Based on the character surveys, we've gone with these two characters for updating to the new universal character rig system that we've been dedicating time to.
For anyone curious, please read our previous write-up on the subject for detailed info https://www.patreon.com/posts/preview-thirst-61830416
To demonstrate the updated rigs, here are some posters along with some work-in-progr...
2022-02-25 20:21:14 +0000 UTC
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Character survey for future shorter work. Animation, stills or both. Which one you think we should prioritize?
2022-01-30 02:17:09 +0000 UTC
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Characters are 18+ years of age and were modeled as such.
UNIVERSAL CHARACTER RIG
This month was spent mostly tackling a question of how to arrange character rigging in a most effective way. Using other people's releases is great until a point where we have to deal with inconsistencies between rigs and how well they're built overall.
So a decision was made to invest time and assemble a rig that will be mostly reusable between different character models, wi...
2022-01-30 02:07:15 +0000 UTC
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Characters are 18+ years of age and were modeled as such.
Thank you everyone for all your support. Enjoy, happy holidays!
ANIMATION ARCHIVE (1080p/4K): LINK!
Animation Archive>Animations>Shorts
CATBOX (720p):
2021-12-24 19:25:21 +0000 UTC
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Characters are 18+ years of age and were modeled as such.
Alt version, with a different character and setting, is coming this holiday.
ANIMATION ARCHIVE (1080p/4K): LINK!
Animation Archive>Animations>Shorts
CATBOX (720p): 2021-12-01 21:48:26 +0000 UTC
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HQ PREVIEW LINKS: redgifs catbox
Animation and physics simulations are mostly done. On it's way to a crapton of overnight render nights.
2021-10-19 19:23:24 +0000 UTC
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A quick, single day character port project. Done as a challenge and to practice assembling characters for a new rig base.
Based on a suggestion box post.



HQ PREVIEW LINKS:
https://i.imgur.com/yPAGig4.jpg
2021-09-09 22:45:13 +0000 UTC
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JUDY PREVIEWS
Skin deformation and physics test. Took some time to make it behave right but ultimately worth it not having to think about body looking too rigid during the whole 3 minute runtime of it. Please don't mind clipping at places.

HQ PREVIEW LINKS: 2021-08-31 21:06:43 +0000 UTC
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CLEM + LOUIS SUMMERTIME IMAGE SET (RELEASED)
Hot, midsummer day, sweaty fooling around situation. A couple years after the final season they finally got fed up with walking on all those glass shards and managed to clean up and repair their living spaces. Featuring cleared up debris, fixed and insulated windows (how the hell did they even survive the winters before?), repainted and renovated furniture and room walls etc.
Download using the image link(s) below...
2021-08-03 02:33:20 +0000 UTC
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Thirst Up Previews 06
Last month was full of various distractions but still managed to get a good chunk of work done. Here's a couple of previews.


HQ PREVIEW LINKS:
https://www.redgif...
2021-07-04 00:23:55 +0000 UTC
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A little character interaction bit. This time with additional experimental belly and thighs jiggle physics, more visible in a solid render. Hopefully it won't break too much with consecutive poses.
HQ PREVIEW LINKS:
2021-06-03 20:39:21 +0000 UTC
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Character survey for a short animation.

2021-05-28 21:41:18 +0000 UTC
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Explode WIP.
HQ PREVIEW LINKS:
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/livedismaldairycow
2021-05-15 19:59:04 +0000 UTC
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We're testing a different, more efficient rigging workflow. Might as well work on a character you folks like most and prep her for future animations.
Between these two characters which one would you prefer?
2021-04-30 20:57:55 +0000 UTC
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