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October 2022 Update [Video]
🕑 Added 2022-11-06 21:07:49 +0000 UTCALRIGHT!! aaa here's this month's update, and the second video update I'm making!
LINK TO THE VIDEO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A6mTOBm1xOp42LDHTejixdyQRCT0ltD-/view?usp=sharing
This time it's on Google Drive.
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[01] Do you like Google Drive? Seems to be the same as the Youtube player.
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[02] I'll slowly start posting on twitter again. Also not in the video but I'll also check Cohost, and have been wanting to revive my Pillowfort [I have pillowfort invites if anyone wants!]. Furaffinity of course is still my main place to post.
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[03] Patreon Alternatives POLL
link to the post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74316254
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[04] The rig is coming along nicely! The mechanisms for the overall body are pretty much done, I just need to make adjustments to improve certain problem areas. I suspect the issues have to do with the pivot points, or maybe they are common problem areas and simply require corrective shapekeys!
I am really hyped with Action constraints which allow me to move a single bone and "play" an animation. No more needing to grab and pose one bone at a time, I can make the pose once with all the bones, and next time I just move a single bone and all the relevant bones move to their position, and on top of this I can still go in and adjust any of the individual bones if needed. Really powerful!
Also, a lot of the bones that control the rig have custom shapes now which makes the rig look way fancier.
I still have to work on the face and the crotch, so that will be my main focus this month, as well as fixing some of those problem areas I was talking about
Btw the problem areas are:
- Torso bending forward [Issue might be pivot points]
- Knees and Ankles [also could be pivot point, or maybe it's a matter of using shapekeys]
- arm/forearm and leg/shin clipping into each other when bending [a bit more complex of an issue, I'll look into what my options are for fixing this,]
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OTL sorry the audio is weird still, I think it's a bit louder, but the noise is distracting...
I am learning a lot, like... I didn't realize the sound quality would vary so much when recording from OBS vs Audacity! I'll be more careful in the future, for now I hope the change in the audio is not too jarring, I tried minimizing as best as I could.
I will try to look into adjusting OBS to get better audio from the start, or I was also thinking about making video and audio separate, like reading from a script for the audio, and then making a video to go along, that would help make the audio more consistent and could also result in shorter videos, since there's less time thinking of the correct words, rambling or being silent/not saying much while changing things in blender.
OTL thank you for your patience while things are new and messy!
![October 2022 Update [Video]](https://img10.patrefans.com/storage/3/tq/cw/563145-019e81fb-c333-79fd-b7cf-ce9b14f00c37.jpg)
Comments
epyon_avenger
01 - It's fine? Either is good for me, whatever is easiest for you. >:] 01a - Though! One nice thing about not posting on YouTube is I _think_ you don't have to worry about copyright strikes or such on music you use. 02 - I _think_ I followed you on all those, but I'll double check. I'm epyonavenger or epyon_avenger literally everywhere, easy to figure out. XD 03 - Did the thing! 04 - The action constraints discussion and explanation was really interesting! I feel like that'd make...uh...average...no...common? Maybe. "Common" actions easier to do? Like the "blink" you demonstrated. Unrelated/semi-related, I know you're mostly playing with the stable version of Blender, I saw that Dillon Goo did a custom spin that worked better for some of his animation stuff (goo-engine), which...may or may not ever be interesting/useful, but figured I'd mention in case it was interesting. I didn't get too much weird audio when I listened, I'm not sure what you are hearing that is off? The only thing I picked up on is out sounds like your mic picks up a fair amount of things around you, but that could just be the pickup pattern on the mic? Or possibly the gain I guess. Either way, it wasn't so bad to be noticable, but that might also be because I was pretty invested in listening to what you were saying and trying to follow along. >:] I can't speak for what would be easier for you, but I have seen a lot of the cooking people on YouTube record the video first, and do the audio dub after, but I guess if you're using it as a demo, maybe the reverse is easier? Not sure! Could always try both and see which you like better. That said! I don't think you ramble, and having little bits of silence or such is kind of charming for a "patron" video. I could see wanting a really polished one if you were doing a teaching/demo series, or a presentation or such, but a more "natural" one feels more like...behind-the-scenes, at least to me. That said, I'll appreciate it either way, because it's awesome to see how this is all coming along! Thank you for the video and update! ^_^
