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Animation Speedrun: 1 Day

So I decided to speedrun myself to see just how fast I can get a small project done with my current knowledge.Model Armature fixed and animated, city created by myself in VR, and everything imported and ready to go. (Marin looking sorta low poly though. Will fix)Lastly, the lighting is all good to g...

Fri-Saturday Snippet of ending for part 1

Finally, they can enter the bedroom and we're 30% through this.It should go faster but the Neko's hair... it needs replacing. It looks awful in motion and it's too glitchy with IK joints. Will find different hair soon.

$15 Part 1 WiP

Took all Saturday but here it is! From the beginning!

Neko 1.9: Emotional Kitty

7/27/18: Emotional KittyToday what got done was Neko's emotions. Took surprisingly longer than I thought. That, her tail is done and ready to knock EVERYTHING over, and I fixed some parts where she was beginning to stand up to push the couch over but her hand went through her leg to get there.Th...

Neko 1.9 Snippet

This is honestly a bit dizzying and it probably is for Rin too.There's still a lot to fix but most of the general animation is there.This time, I slowed it all down to 0.4 in UE4 to make sure it looked better. No slowdowns in Hitfilm. It actually looks a bit more natural. so that's nice!I st...

Edit: $15 - The Polished Tier

Ok, I've got it.I'm not gonna do overviews because that's more situated for Youtube tutorials like 'Behind the GTS'.$15 tiers become the strongest on the final weeks near releasing a video.The snippets of WiP stop and the Polished videos pick up where I do clean-up runs of everyt...

Neko 1.8 Snippet

Tell me what you guys think so far!Hoo boy, this looks fantastic to me! I can't wait for facial animation!I started the clip on the couch so that you guys can see the lighting change on there too. I didn't realize how much animation I actually did this week since I started with Rin beginning...

Neko 1.8: A Tail as Long as Time

7/19/18: A Tail as Long as TimeI apparently thought the year was 2020 a few times. I guess I never second-guessed it. Fixed that! This stream was all about getting the tail caught up with the current events. It took awhile but it's all caught up!On the way to that catching up, It solved yet anot...

Snippet: Preparing to pounce

First to notice is that Rin's foot judders a little bit later in the animation. That's my bad. I forgot to delete some old keyframes there when adjusting her foot placement in Blender to slide less when it came down.Second to notice is the camerawork. I realized I had the animation at 0.6 in...

WE DID IT!

There was a 2nd hidden hip in the Neko's Armature!!!!???I threw a bunch of what I thought would be unused bones into other layers. What I didn't expect, compared to Rin's armature, was a CENTER bone added into her armature.Now I can move on. I'm going to check for this kind of stuff ...

Friday Snippet! Invisible items and jiggle legs. :(

June has been one hell of a fight against bugs and rigging.The month left one last set of scars. The Neko's legs will have to be completely redone 1 last time. That's fine. It will only take an hour or 2.BUT! The tail came out fantastic and the hair is functional if I can't find a physic...

Neko Part 1.5: Breaking the Couch

7/11/18: Breaking the CouchAfter some research on this, couches are surprisingly good at looking the same while its inner pieces break. Which meant I could take the same shape key/morph expression approach as I did in my car destruction tutorial. (If a couch is scratched up, only then will its tears...

Neko Part 0.5 Snippet

This is what I officially have so far!I imported the juice and loaf but for some reason I can only see them when they're far away.Anyways, I couldn't stream today, so I put this together. There's no post processing or light fixes, but you can see that this is starting to look like it cou...

WE NAMED THAT JUICEBOX!!!

FINAL: I'm locking this poll up. (I had no idea I could do that until now) Considering that Orange Dwindle feels like a flavor and Juicer Reducer feels like a product, THEY BOTH WIN!We've got a few ideas here from the stream. Have a gander and if you think you got a good name too, then put i...

Neko vid part 1: Big Rigs

6/26/18: Big RigsLOTS of rigging had to be done today, but it was well worth it. I had to delete all of the keyframes for the hair and tail though.I cleaned up my workspace further so that the untouched bones of her hair are hidden and the tail is in its own separate layer box thingy.The double IK j...

Neko Test 1 Snippet

I need to find a fix for what's causing the leg judder on these models.It's only happening to Rin behind the couch due to hip rotation. Gotta be connected somehow.This is one of those bugs that exploring into new territory will provide.

Side Projects and UE4 Assets

Yesterday up to this morning has been interesting. Pool Remix is nearly done with sound made by Geoliger. I've paid him for his efforts and it looks like he wants to stick around for more videos. Awesome! I've also been dealing with finding voice actresses for Rin, Miku, and Teto. The plan...

Neko Vid Part 0: The Set is Set

6/6/18: The Set is SetThe city area is much more complete and I'm ready to get back to animating. I did want the Neko to pounce over the couch, but I had to change it to her sitting down and watching tv for... actually, why did I do that? Never work while you're tired or you might work in re...

Neko video open discussion

[I almost forgot that the Patron number and pledge amount is gonna jump all over the place while they process everything til the 5th. It's a jumpscare, I tell you. I thought I insulted people somehow. I added a new goal, but really it's a plan to make interactive set pieces out of my UE4 vi...

Big, Bigger, Bubblegum

This is it. The finale of this month's work. I hope it's been worth it for you guys as my last trip in MMM. Next month, I'll be making little "Behind the Scenes" videos of how did important parts of the video rather than a whole bunch of sped-up nonsense.Switching back to monthly...

Bubblegum Part 2 Complete

So close to over. Tomorrow is the day.I'm thinking to maybe drop the hair down a bit at the end. Looks like it's floating.

Should I switch back to monthly payment to lower stress?

Recently, I've been rushing to get this done by the end of this month in order to collect the pledges necessary for the next video.I'll get it done, but I wanted to ask this for the following months.It's an available option now because this is an update-based Patreon with suggestions dis...

Part 1 Complete

This is the final version of part 1, but if you spot anything off, give a shout out.

Name the Bubblegum video!

This will decide what the name of the video will be.The winning option gets chosen when the video finally goes live next week! (After all the cleaning, added physics, Patreon member world-ads, and fixes)I've got only two cruddy names. Select the Custom Comment slot and heart the comment you want...

WiP Full Bubblegum video

I should hold a poll for the name of the video.I'm sorry I didn't post the full thing of part 2. I was so close to the end that I wanted to get the full WiP video for you guys.

Bubblegum Part 3 Friday Snippet

I know I changed the way I update suddenly, but I don't want to annoy you guys. Besides, you get a bit more jam-packed in these weekly Friday updates and I save my unlisted youtube page from becoming super long with tons of snippet uploads.

You all know where this will lead!

Birthday went great! Instead of a bunch of gifts, my family came together to get me a Rift so that I can do this Patreon proud. (They still don't know though) Can't wait to get started on the VR vids for everyone!

Bubblegum part 3: Lucy is Done

5/25/18 - Lucy is Done:Lucy is finally finished! This means everything else like hair, cleanup, physics, and further destruction edits are all that's left! That stuff takes days instead of months to do!This building is now property of the Pluck Club.Satisfying!Unexpected growth scene of her enjo...

EDIT: So it turns out that I update way too much

Image sent from a friend.Sorry about the flooded inboxes. I'm changing the way that I update now to something a little less.Edit: Wait! I got it.Steady stream schedule: 12 PM - 5 PM, Mon - Fri.$1 LONG post of section updates.When a new part begins, a new post does too so it doesn't get too l...