Muad3d

Update time

I'm still alive, still here, and working. On more things than just content for here sadly, or maybe not.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I've been looking for jobs, quite a lot as inflation, recession, all those things hit me too, especially badly since I don't have an active employment anywhere, just you wonderful people supporting me.

I've been sending in applications when I saw opportunities. One of the most recent one I'm really hopeful about and if it works out and they hire me, I'll be moving countries. So be ready for that, but I'll announce it if it becomes a reality.

In the meantime I've dug myself into a pretty time sensitive project the last few weeks, which is now finished. It has taught me a lot about my approach to stuff in blender and highlighted many aspects I looked at with a warped lens.

So while I'm still working on the animation I promised, the sunscreen growth pool scene, I'll be making some changes to the base model and scene so it works better and more stable.

Hope to bring you all updates really soon, this time for real. (I'm sorry about that)

Late again? (Update)

Yes.

I'm late again.

I won't try to cover it up with anything, the heat has been kicking my ass and hindering my work. I live in a one room apartment with no AC and been going through 35-39C (95-102F) days constantly. Even just my PC running is heating up the room so much, the inside temperature gets dangerously close to the outside. And at that point I'm not even actively working on anything. Imagine what it is like with my PC running on just half usage, not to mention full capacity.

But I've been working, as much as I could. I didn't progress as much with the animation as I wanted, which you probably suspected. The scene I'm working with turned out to be way heavier than at first glance. The house I'm using for it has some really weird modelling choices, huge number of extra detail that isn't necessary, but slows everything down.

So I've been working on cleaning that up, remaking windows, doors, railings, various aspects of the environment.

As a secondary hindrance I'm also getting screwed by the government, maybe not many of you know, I live in Hungary and our current (re-elected) government is cutting tax benefits and increasing living costs, much like other countries. Because of this I've been spending a chunk of my time looking for work, full time employment, because as much as I love to do this kind of work, it's not sustaining me full time, yet, and the chances of it happening soon are getting slimmer.

So yeah, it's been a bit of a rough patch, but I'm still here, working.

I'm sorry for the lack of updates, hope to show something worthwhile soon.

Progress is happening!

I've started working on the animation and making good progress on it, as much as possible.

This recent heat wave have slowed both me and my pc down a bit, making it harder to work, but I'm pushing through, no stopping!

These last few days I've been helping a friend pack and move so I've been a bit more busy, less time at the computer. Expect progress images early next week!

Veins!

Here's the results of my vein painting and redness effect combined. I'm quite satisfied with it. The veins have two layers that can be individually adjusted and turned on or off, just like the redness effect.

One final pass of the character to see if all parts are in place and I can start blocking out the animation!

First tests of redness

Been working on the redness effect and I think it's turning out pretty great.

Next up, adding veins and making them separately animatable.

Quick updates done

Finished the initial skin, hair and eye updates.

- Simplified the skin setup a bit, which surprisingly ended up looking better.

- Tweaked the hair, eyelash and eyebrow colors, plus fixed some blue hue due to subsurface poke-through.

- Fixed and re-enabled the tear material around the eye. It's almost invisible from this angle but will look really nice when it shows up

On top of this also uncovered and fixed some physics dependency loops. Should hopefully behave much more stable from now on.

The skin wetness effect is also under way, first few tests might get posted tomorrow. And also have a general idea how I want to approach the redness/veins effect.

Poll results - June

Drum roll please... here are the results:

Sunscreen growth won the poll with a huge lead at 12 votes in total, so it will take the main focus for June as an animation project, for which I'll develop the wetness (and hopefully redness/veins) effect I mentioned.

In the shower got second place with 6 votes. If I find time during the month and can fit it in, I might make this into an image pack. This is a sizable "if". But if not this month, might level up to an animation (and image pack) in the future.

All of you who voted for In the Pool, don't be saddened, the idea isn't out of mind. I'll definitely come back to it down the line and will probably end up making an animation out of it. So it will be realized, just not right away this month.

Thank you for taking the time to vote, 16 of you did, that's pretty much 50% of my current supporters. A pretty amazing amount and I really appreciate it. We will do this for every big content decision from now on, as long as you keep up the interaction.

I'll get to work, quite a bit ahead of me, and want to show something as soon as I can.

What would you like to see for June?

I want to give you some creative control over what comes next in terms of finished images, gifs and animations. At the same time I want to center it around a feature or idea I am most interested in working on, because then you get something you voted for, and I also enjoy working on it as much as possible.

So for June I want to focus on a wetness effect for Amanda's skin, and making it mostly dynamic, so it can be used in a lot of ways later down the line.

Here are the ideas that could work with it (images and animation):

In the pool - Amanda walks/swims around in the pool, splashing some water around before emerging and stretching by the water, letting her body drip and slowly dry off in the sun.

In the shower - More moody, Amanda is taking a shower, letting the water run down her body, glistening in the light, maybe pushing up against the glass wall of the shower, pressing her breasts into it.

Sunscreen growth - Amanda is sitting by the pool, enjoying the sun before applying some sunscreen to herself, rubbing it into her boobs mainly, before it causes a reaction and they swell, filling up.   Her breasts could also turn more red in shade as the lotion works, which could be another feature being added alongside the wetness. This would of course a bit more development time on this idea.

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You can vote for one or multiple ideas, depending if you have a preference or not. The most voted idea by the end of next week will be the one I focus on for the end of June. Hopefully I'll manage to finish it without slipping over into July! :D

I'll also be reading through ideas if you leave any in the comments, and will consider them if they are in line with the goals of this next work period.

Animation Finished!

It is now up on my Google Drive, go and watch it! (Hopefully it's processed and watchable by the time you read this.)

Hoping to release it publicly in a few day's time, that way you lovely supporters get some exclusivity.

Just wishing PH would finally verify me so I could upload videos... they locked the uploading behind creator program membership and refused to verify me so far.

Rendering time!

Animation is ready to render. I will let it run while I sleep so hopefully tomorrow I can do a quick edit and post it!

15 hours of rendering, here we go!

Almost there!

As you can see in the gif, the animation is really coming together now!

All that's left is to fine tune the hands and fingers to feel realistic, rerun the simulations for the boobs and hair, and render it out.

Unfortunately I have to go offline for the weekend, again, so the final steps will have to wait until late Sunday and the days after.

It's close, almost done! Just a bit more to go. I really hope you're as excited as I am.

Birthday Sale!

With my birthday approaching next week, ALL items in my Gumroad store are 33% off until the 15th!

Use code "birthday2022" on checkout to get your discounts.

https://www.gumroad.com/muad3d

Almost there! (+ a request)

Work is getting close to the end on this first, "bigger" animation.

It's 690 frames, which puts it at 23 second, plus anything else I add to the beginning and end, like a title screen and the credit for all of the $10 Producers.

The animation work is mostly done, just some final things to polish up, and then setting it to render. I really hope to get it done before the end of this week!

On a side note, I'd greatly appreciate it if you shared the news around that I'm actively working on stuff, as numbers have been stagnating for the last while, mostly due to fluctuation on my part.

Maybe not all of you know this but I put all of it up on this 3D venture after finishing my degree last July, so this is what I'm trying do as a "day job", with no other source of income supporting me. For now I got by, but my saved up funds are quickly coming to and end, and as of right now I don't make enough to keep this going, without having to look for a 9-5 job.

Of course in an ideal world I wouldn't need to ask any of you for a penny, and I could just do this for the love of it, without having to worry about my survival. But that's not the world we live in, and as such I have to pay bills every month, like all of you do too.

I understand some of you might be in a similar situation as I am, and you still contribute, which I can't even express how much I appreciate. All I could ask is that you share my name around, let others know I'm worth supporting (if you do believe that), and help me get to a point where bills will no longer be an issue, so I can focus my full attention on this.

Quick growth test

Think I have the growth settings mostly figured out, now just have to animate something fitting for the first surge!

Gonna be a couple of busy days, but so worth it.

Short animation on Twitter

Posted a 6 second long animation on Twitter. Can't post it on here as a public post, because it has some... pointy hills in full view, and Patreon doesn't like that if it's not Patrons only. So I encourage all of you to go and check it out:

HERE 

Future, longer animations will be going up on a different, orange and black platform ;)

Image pack released!

The teased pack has launched on Gumroad and the links have been sent out to all those who have been supporting since the start of February.

I really hope you enjoy the end result as I've put quite a few hours, days, weeks, technically even months into this.

But the work never stops, back to the grind I go, to improve more on the quality and speed and maybe, just maybe start on some company for Amanda.

Stay tuned!

Quick update

Image pack is only coming next week, ran into some rendering issues, some things that needed redoing, etc etc. Boring details but I don't want to release lower quality content.

Next week, around Thursday, at worst Friday seems reasonable for release.

I wish all of you a Happy Easter weekend if you celebrate it!

Progress!

Work on the first image pack has been going steadily, as you can hopefully see.

For this first 'shoot' we will remain inside, in the bedroom, but even like this I'll be bringing you 3 different poses, captured in a total of AT LEAST 20 images!

I hope to get it done before the weekend, but also want to make sure the images live up to the quality I want to offer.

It being Easter this coming weekend, if I can't get it out before that, the release will have to wait until sometime middle of next week, as I'll be home with family once again.

I hope you're all happy with this preview and will enjoy the full pack, once it's done.

Of course as previously, supporting me on here guarantees a free copy of the pack. Those in the Producer Tier, you have until Thursday evening to let me know if you don't want your name to appear in the credits for this pack, or if you wish to have a name different from your Patreon displayed one.

First image! sort of...

Here is today's work, although after rendering for 1h 10-ish minutes, it got a bit blurred by denoising, which I accidentally left enabled. So I'll have to redo-it once I get the rest of the angles set up.

But it might give you all an idea of the quality and style I'm aiming for.

Let me know what you think!

Work is happening!

A few more scenery previews

Weekend update!

I'll be out of town for the weekend, some family events and we also have a general election over here.

Before I leave I'm still working on stuff, but don't expect images until start of next week.

But next week! We are going straight into images, poses, all the sexy.

Keep safe until I return, and have a relaxing weekend!

No, this is not April Fools.

Amanda silhouette

Hope you all enjoy the first proper, lit and "finished" showcase of Amanda.

I'm working on setting up a room in the house and getting her posed for more pictures like this. This will also lead into the first image pack of her with a "theme" of sorts.

More boobies!!!?

Not what I planned to do today, I even mentioned I'll be putting her in the scene today...

But I redid the boobs AGAIN!

And look how soft it is, while being round and sitting high.

Now to have her in the house... finally!

Adjusted boob physics!

Yes I know, I keep going back to it, but I just wasn't satisfied with the result. I finally got the feel I was chasing.

Expect a few "in house" image on Monday, starting to put her in location.

World building

Quite literally!

I've been busy conjuring this group of islands and the house it gives home to, as the main location for most, if not all upcoming content, images, animations.

It's getting close, and I think I'll try some angles with Amanda in it, tomorrow.

Bouncy walk GIF

Been silent for a bit, but work is going strong.

Got the soft body tuned in now, shape, size and motion.

While I'm working to clothe her, I'll start working on the first proper photoshoot, set in a bedroom of the house I picked out for scenery. 

Boobs, now with collision!

Took me a bit to find a way to have the boobs interact with the rest of the body.

As weird as it sounds, they were "exploding" in size if I simply turned the collision on for the body.

Still have to tweak the settings to get a bit more of a faker look, something I wanted from the start.

Boob physics!

After a full day of back and forth, managed to wrestle the boobs into cooperation.

Have to tweak the shape and weight some more, but it's getting close.

Lips done, for now

Finally got the lips in a way I'm happy with.

Next week I'll get started on the bikini for her and maybe, MAYBE towards the end of the week I can show off some finished, polished, posed images!

I say next week because I'm away from my PC for the weekend.