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(CA9-10) Fluids

The 9th WIP post wasn't final, but this one is.

WIP

I'm making the last adjustments to CA9, and preparing it for release. And one of these final touches is fluids. To be honest, I totally forgot how to use them and what I need to take into consideration when preparing to add them. And CA9 is a good opportunity to remember how they work. You don't want awfully looking liquids in A15 and MA1, do you?

Thanks to 2025-01-25 13:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Chest treat

"What kind of weirdo stores a live mimic in their basement!?"

Here is a little short animation for ya while I work on other projects.

I attached 2 versions, one is just 1 loop, and the second one is just a looped sequence for 10s.

(Bonus) Iterations, iterations, and iterations once again...

Welp, this time my biggest enemy was scene lighting. While character animation was done in roughly 2-3 hours, the lighting took a few days to evolve into something usable.

Lighting

I began working on it without any ideas on how it should be lighted. And quite quickly it became obvious that a simple 3-point light setup won't work. I can't say it should've worked here because of scene complexity but in 1 of 10 projects it can work quite well. Usually, it requires more light source...

(?-WIP) Chest treat

HA-HA, I LIED! The first release this year will be a short animation with Hoodwink and a mimic.

Well, this is an unusual post as I usually don't post WIP for short and "simple" projects, in fact, they don't have a codename assigned to them because of how quickly they are made. But this time I want to hear your thoughts about this one.

I added heart beating to her like in the game and I want to know how it looks to you, should I remove it or leave it as is? Also, do you like tentac...

(CA9-9) Finishing touches

Slowly crawling out from under a table after celebrating New Year, it's time to continue to working on my projects. The first full release this year will be CA9 (not including the New Year Special).

Most likely this will be the last CA9 WIP, and the next post will be a release one. I need to work further on lighting and environment, specifically on the chest model. I'd like to say that the next WIP will be soon, but as you know me, it's better to say that it will take a week to release....

Bull riding

Story

"A lot of lube - check, Healing salve and Mekansm for an emergency - check, my trustworthy crossbow for way too nasty guests - check. Ready to make someone happy this night!" - A fluffy squirrel packing herself into a present box.

In the middle of the night, when all guests go home after the New Year's celebration. The honorable noble bull is left alone with himself and a few presents under the Christmas tree. Suddenly one of the presents begins to twitch slightly. Bull no...

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your support in this not-so-release-rich year. I really appreciate your support.

I'll be honest, I've spent all day working on a new release for this post but sadly I wasn't able to fully finish it. Currently, it needs a few little tweaks and it will be ready. I'll post it after I take a good nap and make the last tweaks.

Once again - Thank you for your support, it makes it possible to continue working on learning animation and 3D stuff in ge...

(MA1-8) Intro

I did not forget about you guys! I was working on MA1 this week and managed to make good progress!

Yeah, it still has a lot of problems and it's kinda raw, but it can be fixed relatively easily and quickly. Currently, the main problem is that something broke in the lighting. I guess it's because of EEVEE Next (of course), but it needs testing. I would really like to port it to Unreal as it has A LOT better lighting solutions, but sadly this model breaks as soon you try to export it. If ...

(A15-4) Half-baked animation

This is getting out of hand, another "short" animation becomes a quite long one. I can't stop making short animations a lot longer, even if it's something "simple".

There are still a lot of things to do, like fixing a hand, adding collisions to her hood, fixing clipping, etc. I'm unsure about the ending, I can't figure out a good pose for it. The current one seems ok, but I feel like I can find a more suiting one.

Full animation is here - 2024-12-21 23:40:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Naughty Squirrel - Now with sound!

As promised, this animation received a sound edit. I reused the GIF from the previous post as there were no alternatives.

The sound edit is done by Saurial (@Reveriexs). Big thanks for his work!

(A15-3) Ending progress

I'm sorry for GIF quality and size. I don't know why it's so big. I've compressed it to oblivion to reduce file size and still, it wasn't enough.

This is a rough base for the ending. Here you can see the third loop in action at the beginning and the whole ending (for now).

I'm thinking about should I remove the knot inserting or not. From one side it definitely makes it look better and... nah. On the other side - it doesn't make sense at all, how in the world that thing can enter ...

(A15-P) Knot or not?

Working on ending and got the dilemma. Should magic stick fully enter or not?

Why do I even think about it? There are 2 things - First, I've made her hole tight as hell. You can clearly see that when the stick enters, her whole body is pushed up. It's visible in first part, and in second part she uses a tree to push herself against the force from below.

The second thing is that the magic stick is really big. Actually, it's about half of her torso in length. And as you can see, it...

(A15-2) Mask expressions test

I added eyebrows and eyelids to test how better it would look. It definitely makes her more alive.

Here is the thing, I thought that adding eyebrows would make her look better but in practice it looks unfitting. That's why I included two versions in this post. Most likely I won't add them to the release version.

Looking at how the first part looks, I don't think I'll add much variety to it. The loop is looping itself really well and feels natural even after 5-6 repeats. For other ...

(CA9-8) Progress

Once in a while, CA9 WIPs appear here. Quite a rare event indeed.

I know you don't like CA9, but it needs to be finished sooner or later. And posting CA9 WIP's can smooth out the lack of posts while I work on it.

Currently, it's 50s animation and you can see how it looks now here - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8i2ji6uosty...

(MA1-8) The first half of the intro - progress

And here is the progress made in the first half. As with the previous WIP it isn't finished, you can clearly see that I haven't worked on the last few seconds yet. The next MA1 WIP will be with a full intro, for real this time.

20s of non-looped animation with another ~20s in the second half sounds good. But I should say that I overdone it, the intro should be a lot shorter. Do I regret it? Not much, I like to make intros that develop into the main part of the animation. But note for my...

A little update on all projects

It's better to describe progress in this post as the pinned info post contains only surface-level info on all projects.

MA1 - Main priority, I've polished ~30% of the first intro and tested the new unfinished environment. This new environment is so good, that it makes the animation feel cinematic.

MA2 - I'm remaking a block-out for ending as my current block-out looks bad. No serious progress for now.

CA9 - Working on ending. There are still a lot of things to do, but most w...

(A15-1) Base animation

There are no good animations or even posters with immortal set, it's time to fix it.

This is a short animation that consists of 2 simple loops and an ending. I got used to working on short and simple animations so this can be done quickly.

This animation has 2 serious challenges. The first one is clothing - I need to learn how to use cloth simulations for this project. The second one is her face - from what I can see, the main problem with this set is the lack of facial expression...

(MA1-7) Another progress on the intro

2nd part of the intro is nearly finished. I need to create a transition to the main part and fix tentacles and that's all for the 2nd intro part. Meanwhile, I've started working on 1st intro part. It should take less time as it already has a block-out and the only thing left is to spline and polish it. I plan to make the next MA1 WIP contain a full intro if I don't screw up with deadlines.

Non-gif here: 2024-11-28 15:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Eggs, seeds, nuts in gel?

I was thinking about how "eggs" or seeds will look like in MA1 and CA8-B (I'll tell later) and come up with 3 variants.

The question was raised because of how weird it looks that a plant-based creature uses eggs to spread around. Usually, eggs come from chickens and... lizard-like creatures (?), while plants use seeds and similar stuff.

So we have 3 options:

• Eggs - Standard thing. It looks good and is easy to do but doesn't fit the plant's theme.

• Seed...

  2024-11-22 10:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post

(MA1-6) Environment progress

Spent some time on the environment for this animation and... for now it looks like I'm doing good.

It's a complicated scene to work with. You can see how hard it is to add proper lights in previous WIPs. I need to figure out how to make a good transition between dirt and grass. Thus while I'm writing this text I already can see that I need to work on colors for sure, currently it is way too yellow-tinted. There is a lot of work to do, but at least it will look the same as CA8 or better...

(MA1-5) Progress on intro

And here we are. I've planned to post the whole finished intro, but it would be better if I just shared the current progress on it.

Obviously, it's still unfinished. Roughly speaking, it's 50% done. I hope I'll be able to finish the intro and environment, and maybe a bit of the ending this week.

I've spent most of the week working on CA9 where I got pretty good results and working on a few projects that got scraped fairly quickly. That's why I was silent for a long time.

For...

"Naughty girl training" - Some info

Oh gosh, there is so much to write...

Separated this text as it kinda works as WIP to the previous animation.

This animation is something special and I thought about how I would name it and what the backstory would be for a long time. The thing is that animation connects with other animations so well and even without any additional animations/posters/backstories it stands good. I feel like it's an animation that we were lack of for a while.

No WIPs? ;(

First, I need ...

Naughty Squirrel - Additional view angles

Here are additional view angles.

Naughty Squirrel

And here is another release! It's a short loop with 2 additional view angles. Hope you like it!

"Seems like getting a chunk of acorns and seeds supplies isn't enough for her, he wants them ALL!"

SFX will most likely be added later. I'm currently trying to contact one good SFX artist. I'm worrying about lighting and color grading here, I hope I didn't mess up and it looks good.

I included the original .mov file and converted .mp4 version.

Info

I know there weren't any posts for a week, I was working on CA9 and was busy dealing with health issues in my family.

I've moved CA9 to the secondary branch and now it's got into development hell officially. Mainly because of model issues and the overall difficulty of the animation. Now I'm focused on monthly animations. Sadly this month I don't plan to do 3rd poll for monthly animation unless I release at least one of them.

I still want to make this month full of releases. MA1 an...

Deep negotiations

BAM, A RANDOM SHORT LOOP JUST DROPPED!

"Did you hear? They planning to plant a whole new forest near us! They already moved supplies to our town..."
In the middle of the night, unusual sounds come from the local tavern. You sneak in to investigate the source of these sounds only to catch a big squirrel deep-throating guy that seems to be a lead of the "forest-planting" team.

I had problems with EEVEE Next and Video Editor so render quality is worse than usual. Sorry.

(MA2-3) Base lighting

This is how the second half most likely will look in the first poll option ("Old plan").

(MA2-Poll) Next part

Today I'll be focused on CA9, so no MA2 WIP's today or tomorrow. While I'm working on CA9, it's a good time to create a poll for MA2.

So, the poll for the ending again! This time you pick between a few ways the last part will go. The second half of the animation will contain a lot of tentacles flooding the scene, so it becomes obvious that my old plan can get into question. I need to tell you what the plan was - After the first tile bumps Hoodwink loses her balance and leaps forward to ...

(MA2-2) Half of the animation is done

The animation is 20s long, so I can't create a gif from it. Check it here - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vd838qvtsrqy7vp8n0ia5/First-Half.mp4?rlkey=gazxcyvxmdtshtc96j7ezbhmh&st=yor2yf6r&dl=0

And here is the first half of the animation. It's a bit rough in some places but overall it looks good. This part is on the c...

(MA2-1) Start

I need to start by answering one question - "Why are you working on MA2 instead of MA1 or CA9?"

The answer is - I want to release some stuff and finally finish at least one of the monthly animations. If more exactly - I want to clear my project queue by finishing "simple" and short projects. Currently, the queue looks like this - 2 animations>MA2>MA1>CA9>A14. So you can wait for a mouth full of releases. And if you are curious about 2 animations, I will tell you later what t...