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May Animation Suggestions!

Les go! Here's the list of available models: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

On cooldown this month: Syandene, Tahlia, the Dragon, Mango, Nidhala.

3 character maximum in suggestions*, 140 maximum text characters due to limitations in the polls. As always I reserve the right to veto ideas if I don't like them or if they don't fit the characters, but I try not to do this much!

*Co...

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May Painting Suggestions!

Suggestion time! Quick recap: Suggestions should involve my characters and/or generics. Available characters can be found at these links: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9449336/

Keep suggestions short, anything over 140 text characters will have to be cut down due to limi...

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Marble, the Arctic Painted Fox

I'm calling it- there's no chance anything is overtaking Marble for the name now, so Marble it is. Here's a ref I whipped up for her over breakfast!

Alright, off to finally finish that painting now.

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Name the Foxxo!

Spent most of the day working on the painting for April, but had a little time at the end of the day after getting everything done I wanted to, and fiddled around with the fox some more. Touched up her fur pattern a bit; dialed back on the noise just a little so she's not quite so visually loud, and manually tweaked the pattern to adjust contrast and colours until it felt kinda right. I think she's i...

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Arctic Painted Fox

There were two ideas from the previous post that particularly caught my attention... Arctic fox and african painted dog. I liked both and couldn't decide, so I did the thing I often do in such situations and picked the option that'll disappoint everyone; I went with both and smashed 'em together into one thing! Allow me to introduce you to the Actric Painted Fox. What do you think? May still make a few tweaks but we're honing in on the final design here.

Despite being fairly visually ...

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Fox ideas!

First a few tidbits of news, the animation is finished and up! Check for it on FA, FN or e621 if you haven't seen it yet.

The painting is on it's way, I just wanna take a day or two off after that animation so it'll be a little late. Stay tuned!

Now, the reason I'm here- I need ideas for a fox-ish character. If you've read the description of my latest animation you might know what's up, if you haven't well that's on you. :P Still, any interesting fox species, or other canid-esq...

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April Animation - Vote! Again!

God I suck at this. Missed one, gotta re-do the poll. Sorry! :P

Characters for reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

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April Painting - Vote!

Alright, here's what we've got this month!

Characters, for reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9449336/

Lots of options, let's see what gets in!

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Last call for suggestions!

Get 'em in!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-animation-81063700
https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-painting-81063831

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April Painting Suggestions!

Alright, here's the post for painting suggestions! A quick refresher on the rules:

Keep your suggestions short, I can only fit 140 characters in the polls. If you go longer than that I'll have to remove stuff!

We're experimenting with a new rule to promote some variety, characters go on cooldown for two months after being used. This month, the following characters are off limits:

The failed hunt characters, Adhina, and Ash.

Everyone else is fair game!

H...

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April Animation Suggestions!

Alright! It's time, you know what to do! A quick refresher on the rules:

Keep your suggestions short, I can only fit 140 characters in the polls. If you go longer than that I'll have to remove stuff!

Three character maximum!

We're experimenting with a new rule to promote some variety, characters go on cooldown for two months after being used. This month, the following characters are off limits:

Tahlia, Syandene, the red dragon, Amethyst, and Wolf Guy.

Ev...

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Geometry Nodes Fur Setup!

Well, I think it's ready!  This is my brainchild as a result of the last couple of weeks/months, depending on how you look at it. See attached for the nodes setup. Note, normal transferring currently only works in eevee, you'll get weird artifacts in cycles!

This one is something 99% of you aren't gonna care about; if you're not actively making models in blender right now there's not much here for you. But if you are and you've been wanting to test out a fur style similar to mine,...

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Meet Mango!

Well, you've all met her before, but time for a proper introduction.

Most of you will have likely seen this ref sheet and most of this description before because I posted it to FA already. I -meant- to post it here at the same time since y'all voted on the name, I just... forgot. It was late when I put this together and by that time I was very very tired and the only thing on my mind was going to bed, haha.

But I'm up now, so here she is! Not much new to see here, but it feels...

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Alright, name ze bat!

Damn, there were a lot of suggestions here! You guys really like the bat, huh? Or if you don't you've at least got lots of opinions on names, hah.  

Well, there was a lot to choose from! I picked out a couple that I liked the most; I'll leave the rest up to you!

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New Thing, Needs Name

(If you're only here to see the thing and suggest a name, just scroll down 'till you see it)

Inspiration is a weird thing. There are lots of models I want to make, things I've been talking about wanting to make for ages even, but that's not enough on it's own. For me at least, there needs to be that... je ne sais quoi. That spark.

It's hard to explain, but you know it when you feel it. Reading over all the suggestions thinking "Yeah, that could be fun... there's one I'...

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March Animation - Vote

And here's the one for the animation.

For any characters mentioned, if you need a reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

Edit: Uuuugh I fucked up and forgot to change the voting setting for both polls this time. Y'know what, I'm leaving it just this once. Pick your favorite. Let's see what happens. I'll try not to set next month's vote up at 3 in the morning and hopefully that'll h...

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March Painting - Vote!

Alright, here we go!

For any characters mentioned, if you need a reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9449336/

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Last call for suggestions!

Get 'em in if you haven't yet!

Animation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-animation-79505107

Painting: https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-painting-79504812

Voting should go up tomorrow around this time (if the power hasn't been knocked out, we have a lil' storm coming through).
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New model ideas, go!

EDIT: Inspiration has struck! I ended up picking something. Stay tuned...


Technical blender explanation stuff, skip to the second paragraph if you don't care: As you may have already seen, with a lot of help from the man himself I was recently able to find a way to replace Sentharn's addon for the transferring of normals from a mesh to fur, with the kicker being it only works for curve based fur, not particle based fur. This wouldn't be a huge problem, except...

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March Animation - Suggestions!

And here's the post for animation suggestions. Following the same two-month character cooldown idea, that would lock out Amethyst, Wolfguy, Blue and Gale. Everyone else is fair game, but bonus points if you pick some lesser-used characters! (Bonus points do nothing. :P)

Here's a list of models available for animations: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

As always, keep your suggestions shor...

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March Painting - Suggestions!

The results of my recent poll ended up being pretty overwhelmingly in support of adding cooldowns to characters, so I'm going to give that a spin and see what happens! A little shakeup to see if it can inject a bit more variety into the mix.

I'm thinking a two month cooldown to start with, so that would put the Failed Hunt characters, Amethyst, and the Dragon on cooldown. They're locked out.

Everything else is as normal though! Suggestions should involve my characters and/or g...

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Question- Character Cooldowns?

Hey all! If you haven't caught it yet, the animation for February is finished and up in the usual places; the painting is still being worked on (apparently I didn't plan my time well!) but should be finished by the end of the day.

But, I have a question I've been thinking about asking. I'm starting to notice more and more complaints about the lack of variety in the characters being chosen for these monthly artings, and you have to admit it's hard to argue, especially in the animations...

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February Animation - Vote!

And here's the vote for the animation!

Characters mentioned, if you need a reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

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February Painting - Vote!

It's voting time! Here's what we've got.

A reference to any characters mentioned, if you need it: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9449336/



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Last call for suggestions!

Get 'em in, voting is going up soon!


Animation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/monthly-78198776

Painting: https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-78198142

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Monthly Animation - Suggestions!

And here's the post for animations!

Here are the models available for animations: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

I'd love to see a pairing we haven't seen together yet, if you can come up with any ideas for 'em!

Suggestions  should be no longer than 140 characters, because that's all the text it  lets me put in poll fields. If you write more than that I'll have to  ...

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February Painting - Suggestions!

It's that time again! Show me whatcha got!

As always, suggestions should contain my characters and/or generics. A list for reference, if you need it: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9449336/

Suggestions should be no longer than 140 characters, because that's all the text it lets me put in poll fields. If you write more than that I'll have to cut it short, so you might as well do that yoursel...

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Feeling cute, might delete later.

For those unaware, the title's a meme, I'm not going to delete this.

Thanks to some early investigative work by Akaece, and a lot of help from Sentharn bashing our combined heads against the problem, we managed to find a way of doing the normal transfer trick his addon does, but natively in blender, using geometry nodes! While it's considerably more difficult to set up and get going, it's a lot more stable, at least in my testing so far. I have no doubt Sen could get his addon working...

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Just a heads up!

Hey all! Just wanted to make you aware that I finally got around to changing the currency of my reward tiers here to my actual country's currency. When I originally signed up, US was the only option, so US it was- but it makes tax time a nightmare, haha. So now that there's the option to switch I did!

As I understand it, it should have literally zero effect on any of you, things should keep right on trucking just the same as ever, you shouldn't see any changes in the amount sent each m...

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January Animation - Vote!

And here's what we got for animations!

Characters, for reference: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40419609/

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