PxlFur

Work In Progress, otter explores a tiger

Here is a new idea I'm working on, the basic premise is that the otter is exploring around the tiger. These will get developed into a series of short loops and may be expanded to become a full animation. It's all work in progress and rough around the edges, broad brushstroke starting point.  

attached are some preliminary renders and I'll start looking at animation once I know what furniture/set is available (the new environment's poll finishes on Monday.)

New character chosen

The new character has been chosen by the Executive Producers, the sculpt that will become the next character is (drumroll please) the Raccoon. :D

Currently on the pile is simulation and character creation and looking at some short loop ideas that will get fleshed out a bit more when I know what the EPs have selected for the next location (that's going to be this coming Monday) so I can work with some props/set dressing, as the size difference of the characters really needs something for...

Fox, Tiger and updates

Here is some stills of my Fox and Tiger enjoying themselves. ^_^

Still working on simulation, time is being spent on research/tutorials. I'm running into a lot of issues and needing to work out solutions. 

This is the reason why I've started the Project Pile, I want lots of content to chew my way through whilst working on the larger projects like simulation (and whatever the next R&D project after this) along with the longer animations so I'm always putting out content. A...

Simulation update

Here is a little something I've been working on. After a week of playing with setups constraints and variables. It's the same underlying animation, the simulation is adding all the additional movement.  Let me know what you think below.  

Next thing I'm tackling is making another part of my characters stretchy ;) need to sculpt up some toys for them to play with :D 

Character selection.

I've put up a poll for the Executive Producers

 https://www.patreon.com/posts/character-poll-37251484 

They are currently deciding which of these is going to be taken from a sculpt to a fully rigged character.

Sun Terrace Tease Part 2

Here it is, the animation is done. =^_^=  A tale as old as time, the otter is just so smoll compared to the yeen. Takes a bit of work to stretch him out, but they both seem to be happy with the results. :D

As covered in a previous post, I want to be able to diversify my time, keeping lots of projects on the go, preventing sensory fatigue, maintaining "a fresh set of eyes" and as they say, a change is as good as a rest. Introducing: the "project pile", a never ending source of mater...

Behind the scenes, the right level of info for you

I'm aware that some people might not want to read my technobabble or view early iterations of work and 'spoil the magic' as work in progress 3D can look... weird. 

I'm thinking of doing this one of two ways, I'd like to hear what your preferences are. 

Either a single post with a nice big delineation line, above it would be a brief overview

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below would be the technobabble and attachment...

Rendering and a note on my Animation Workflow

After a little over 6 weeks (incl weekends) of 5+ hour days and many a late night. The work on the animation is done and the render is underway. ETA is a little under a week and a half (barring any interruptions) EDIT: Might end up being closer to two weeks. Needed to alter some settings as there were errors showing up. more samples. longer render time. :/ 

I'm sure some of you are wondering why my animation takes so long to do, here is a little write up.  

For the most ...

A new still and some updates

A big thank you to everyone for supporting me.

I've been hard at work on the animation and although I was aiming to have posted it by now, I'm happy to say it's almost complete with just a few final bits of polishing needed. I will shortly start it rendering. 

Why's it taken so long? With everything that's been going on in the world and adjustments I've needed to make, my concentration has not been the best and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Every day has been an uphill strug...

Updates and Community Input

Where we're at, the animation is still in the works, about 2/3rds of the way through and I'm hopefully going to have it finished and rendered by the end of the month (please take that as a rough guide not a hard deadline) 

Looking forward I want this community to help me with my future endeavors so if you ever have an idea of something you'd like to see or suggestions for improvements you think I could make please feel free to let me know.

In that spirit I'm after location/se...

Stretching the otter

I know I said It'd be a bit of time, but after blocking this frame up I needed to share it. 

Will get back to doing animation work now :D

Updates

I'm still here and working on the animation. ^.^

The screenshots posted so far are from my first section of blocking, this now needs to be processed more doing things that don't really translate well to screenshots, namely: timing/pacing, camera work and general animation curve editing.

More visual updates will happen when I hit the next section of blocking. :) 

Sun Terrace Tease Pt 2 Stills 2

Continuing work on blocking & refining.

Here are some more stills from where I'm at now. ^.^   

Sun Terrace Tease Pt 2 Stills

Blocking and rough pass for the very beginning done. As I work through the animation I'll be regularly posting 4k stills here to keep everyone apprised of where I'm at in the animation.

Updates

Letting everyone know I'm still here and working on CG stuff.  I'm in an "at risk" category due to my health and have basically been told to self isolate in my house. 

Currently working on the initial blocking pass for Sun Terrace Tease part 2 and will look to post some preview stills over the coming days.

Thanks again for your support it really does mean a lot. :) 

Just Right

This is a bit of bonus content, the 4K still of the Just Right meme post and the mp4 the gif was made from and the gif. In future I plan on doing far more NSFW videos and less memes. (that is unless people want me to do more memes) 

What the otter saw NSFW version

If you are seeing this you either scrolled all the way back to my first post, or are one of the first few people here. Whichever it is, thank you so much for your support. :D