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Bowcat (model WIP)

I know I keep saying I want to switch my focus to animating soon, but I also keep getting good opportunities to make cool stuff that I can't resist taking. I'd been in the mood to make something feral-ish anyway, and then got an offer to make a model of something feral-ish, so here we are. Model WIP

This was a quick test pose I whipped up, something I usually do while I'm modelling to help suss out areas that still need fixing up. While talking a bit with the character's owner, the fac...

Montly Painting - Halloween edition!

Halloween is right around the corner, and that means it's time for your spookiest ideas! Let's see what devious things you want me to draw this month.

Alternatively...

Typically I try to avoid influencing these in any way as I want them to be all about what you guys want to see. But! If you have no other ideas (and I mean that, just take this as a backup idea, I want your ideas first!) my character Syandene has a bit of a history of playing dressup on holidays. Long ago I used ...

Thinking with Portals

I suppose this picture couldn't have any other title, could it? 

May as well admit it up front, this isn't my strongest painting ever. The three-colour three-direction lighting I chose was a tough thing to nail down and it definitely threw me for a bit of a loop, and the setting I chose accidentally gives the picture a real dark undertone that I didn't really want, just didn't think about until it was too late because I'm a derp, heh.

So this one's a bit rough, but I hope y...

September Monthly Painting - INK

I gotta say I was a touch surprised by this month's winner. Not that I have anything against the idea of course! I just feel that usually I have some idea what choice is going to win, and if I had to put my money down between those three ideas, this isn't where it would have gone.

But hey, this is good with me!

So, y'all voted for 'fucking with portals'. I thought about it for a bit, and decided that trying to work two people into this idea was just sort of sex with extra steps...

Here's a thing, retopologized (plus turntable animation)

Still working away at this thing! Whenever I was waiting for something to render or bake on the previous animation, I would hop on over to this guy and fiddle with him a bit.  As a referesher, this model is me experimenting with different ways of doing fur, as I want to see if I can come up with something I like more than particle-based fur. 

I know it doesn't look like much has changed, but visually not much has, but he's actually ready to be rigged and set up for animation n...

Final animation!

Here it is, the final result of the last several weeks of my life. It's not quite as nice as I would have liked, but as I said when I posted the WIP version, I haven't really 'studied' animation at all and just sort of did it a few times. I've got a ton to learn in that area and complex situations like this are going to take some time to get the hang of.

So it's got lots of flaws and weirdness, but despite that I hope some of y'all like it. :3

This took quite a long time to up...

Montly Painting - Vote!

Here's the suggestions for this month's picture! 

Here's a thing

Still working on that animation- fluid simulation takes a very long time due to the nature of how it's calculated, so while it bakes it's left me with not much to do, so I've started on yet another thing. I don't show enough of my WIP stuff so I'm doing so now! No idea if this'll turn into a finished product, we'll see. 

I'm makin' this dude for two reasons. First, most of my models have looked pretty samey, so I wanted to make something just a touch more beastly. Almost semi-feral...

Monthly Painting - Suggestions!

I wanted to get this out a little earlier, but hurricane Dorian had other ideas, and after blowing through our little province the power has been out here for the last four days.

But we're back in action now, so let's see what you'd like me to make this month! Gimme dem ideas.

Here's what I've been working on.

If you remember, a little while back I started working on a planned animation featuring the Ddoe character I had just made, when suddenly someone made me a very generous offer for me to make them some models and an animation. So... that's what I've been up to! I didn't do a great job documenting the process I admit, I got a little overwhelmed with just how much work I had ahead of me and sorta just jumped into it full force, but now that the end is in-sight I can relax a little and start post...

Exotic Equine Encounter

That's a dumb as fuck title. If you've got a better one please do tell me. x3

It's been quite a while since I've drawn a picture of Gale getting off, poor guy's probably been really needing this.

I can feel I'm getting a touch rusty with how infrequently I paint these days, I'm definitely going to have to jump back into it more seriously at some point soon before I forget how to do everything, hah. But hopefully this looks alright for now! As always I'd love to know whatcha thi...

Monthly Painting - Inks!

Hey guys! Been a bit quiet for a while, but I've been working away on stuff and should hopefully have some content coming out soon. But it was time to get started on this month's painting, and the winner is pretty clear, y'all wanna see Gale getting stuffed. I gave it a whirl and here's what I came up with!

Blue does seem to derive some special pleasure out of whoring Gale out to his friends, so this idea definitely fits their relationship quite well, hah. Hope y'all like what I've go...

Monthly Painting - Vote!

Y'all know what to do!

As always, text entry fields are surprisingly limited so where necessary I've shortened the descriptions that were given to me. I'll do my best to keep the gist of the ideas correct!

Doe animation snippet

My plan was to finish up the dickgirl doe model and then make a filthy animation of her for y'all, but something came up- someone made an offer too generous to pass up to make them a few models, I had to jump on it. I did ask if I could make the animation before staring on their models, I figured it would take about a week. They were okay with it, but looking at what I've got so far, it's going to take me probably much longer than that to do what I want to do.

So I've decided to set t...

Montly Painting - Suggestions!

You know the drill- lemme know what you'd like to see me paint this month!

Doe girl - nearly final

Here she is after a bunch more tweaks, with some added hair. A bit punky but it seems to suit her. Same pose 'cause I like it and it's easy, heh.

I'll be posting this same one to FA as she's in a finished-enough state here to be worth posting, but since I don't have a high-res tier anymore I might just toss stuff like this here at a higher res on occasion.

I'm sure y'all are getting tired of seeing her already, but if you're not, enjoy! x3

Painted Doe

Another step in the process of creating the model. Got her painted up for the most part! Though I'm still I'll be making tweaks for a while yet, the broad strokes are done. I thought an all-white deer with some blue accents might look nice. It's a pretty common colour palette, but for a reason- it looks nice!

I also decided to add in some clothing and accessories, since she was a bit plain being almost entirely white. The blue and black from the cuffs and corset really spice her up a b...

DickgirlDoe Foreskin Rig

This is something that I imagine almost nobody here will care about, but for me getting this working took a large chunk of the day and it's by far the most intricate bit of rigging I've done to date, requiring a bunch of interconnected moving parts and multiple mini-animations all linked together to create. I have a feeling there's probably an easier way to pull this off, but this method is the best I could figure out. The result is a foreskin rig that should work well enough whether the wien...

Dickgirl Doe

I ended up going with a deer! I'm pretty picky about my d-girl species... there were lots of fun suggestions, but anything too small and cute just doesn't do it for me, I'd rather just make 'em as a normal female. I'm not sure exactly what criteria my brain wants, but as I was reading through the list of species none of them were really jumping out at me for this one until I read deer, and then I almost immediately thought "Oh, yup, that's the one." 

It also kind of works because, ...

Silly question...

I'm nearly done with the recent model auction I did and, barring approval, should have it all finished and should have an animation based on that character done in the coming days. Which means it's about time to start looking for something new to make...

I've said this a bunch of times already but I'ma say it again 'cause I still kinda feel bad about it- I know I'm making a ton of models and not doing much with them, but I still feel like I'm learning a bunch with each new model I make ...

Changes!

I've made some big changes to how things go on around here. Hopefully everyone who is affected should have gotten a message from me directly, But, I want to make sure everyone has a chance to change things up before the new month rolls over, so I'm making a big over-all post here too.

Most of my reward tiers have been removed at this point- thanks to Patreon recently getting iffy about content, I can't reliably post things I make here anymore, so any tier that revolved around exclusiv...

Keep It Together... Ver.2

Oh hey, I think I literally just discovered while typing this that you can add multiple images to a single post... ah well, too late now. I'll keep it in mind for the future.

Anyway, when I was drawing the original version of this, I wasn't sure I'd be able to quite capture the feeling I was aiming for with a single moment in time, so I drew it with space for a little inset picture in mind to show how she's trying to maintain her poise but just barely keeping it together. In the end I...

Keep It Together...

I was a little surprised to see this idea win this month, but pleasantly so- I do like this catgirl, even if she's a bit plain.

Anyway, here she is taking it up the backdoor in the coat closet of some fancy gala or somesuch. 

These darker pictures are always tricky with watercolours, and just as tough to scan, so it's got a few rough edges, but I think overall it turned out alright. I did two versions of this one, the alternate will be up shortly!

Monthly Painting - [INK] Ver.2

And here's the version with the insert panel. What do you think? Which one do you guys like more? Lemme know!

Monthly Painting - [INK] Ver.1

Looks like this month's winner is gonna be the kitty girl trying to maintain her poise while getting railed!

I gotta say, y'all surprised me this month! I feel like most of the time I've got a decent idea of which ideas are gonna win, but this time around I didn't see this coming. Not one, but -two- ideas involving gale? I know how much y'all love seeing that little fox, so I didn't think a one-off non-character would have much of a chance, much less a straight idea.

Surprised,...

Monthly Painting - Vote!

Some good returning ideas, some good new ideas, all around a fun batch this month. I'm excited! 

As usual, text fields in polls are quite limited so I may have to shorten some of the descriptions but I'll do my best to get the idea across.

Starting the vote a bit early this month as I may want to finish it early so I can make some potential changes to how this page is run, what with the new crackdown on anything too dark. I'm still deciding for sure, but if I get this done ...

Gale 2.0 - Boring model update

Another thing that's kinda too simple to post to FA, but y'all might wanna know.

When I went to do that recent little animation with Gale, I discovered that an aspect of the way I created him made what I wanted to do impossible: for those in the know, here's what happened. I UV unwrapped his model before applying the mirror. This gave me effectively double the texture resolution and made several tricky areas to unwrap very easy, and for a while I thought I was really clever. Then I st...

Wet Fur - animation test

I learned recently that it's possible to control where hair clumps up based on contact with another object, and I wanted to test it out so I whipped up something very quick today to see how it works. Note, this is in NO WAY a polished animation. The way the fluid behaves doesn't make any sense, I know. I have ideas on how I could have fixed it- having the collision mesh delete some of the fluid would make it look a bit like the fur is soaking it up, and it just plain needs more friction. Just...

He's a big boy...

Here's something I've been working on in my downtime for the last little bit. I know y'all are probably getting tired of me just spamming new models instead of actually making anything with them, so I at least decided to do something interesting with him instead of just sitting on a cube. Gale is always happy to greet a new member... uh, of the team.

I made this fella for three main reasons. Firstly, I wanted to experiment with a slightly higher poly mesh. I realized that I was making...

Monthly Painting - Suggestions!

Last one got left too late, so I'm going to try and get this one started real early. Let's hear what you got!

As a reminder, Patreon is currently trying to turn itself into a 'safe space' so if your idea is particularly twisted it might have to be posted on FA or something instead of here. But if you're okay with that, so am I, don't let that slow your perversion down. :P