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Face Slurp Playblast & Teleport VFX
🕑 Added 2023-11-28 10:47:18 +0000 UTCEven after all this time animating, I still get the occasional sequence I struggle with and in this case it was something rather simple like Chloé leaning herself down over the viewer. While I got it to look good in third person, it somehow looked off from the POV perspective. I was able to fix it by exaggerating the movements and making them a lot snappier, which in turn made it look weird in third person, but right from a POV angle. Well, I think I'm going to keep it like that!
Looks like we're finally getting to the good stuff! Chloé has decided to "punish" the viewer for spying by sucking on your face a little, oh no~! This seemed like a good moment to show off her extended gullet and its rig as well. Everything can now be animated, which makes her maw look more dynamic than ever. I've added a plethora of blend poses to her tongue as well, so it can morph between various shapes. There's also some additional sculpt deformers at work here, which are using Maya's new-ish component tags, but the use of them is fairly subtle here, as the excellent mouth rig that was provided by Disregard already enabled me to animate it with a high level of polish!
Most of the intro scenes have already finished rendering, so I can also give you a preview of what the rendered animation is going to look like!
This also shows Chloé's teleportation VFX, which was achieved using nParticles with a decent amount of per-opject motion blur. Since she's desert-themed djinn character, I wanted her teleportation to look like a burst of sand that then reassembles in the same manner. We're only going to see it twice in this animation, while in Encounter 3 it's going to be used quite often for her to move in and out of the shot! :D
Note that the next playblast might be a bit late, as I'm first going to polish up the sequence shown here to have it render over night. I lately try to get a lot of the rendering done during the animation phase since it has gotten a lot more time consuming with these new path-traced visuals.
Comments
Ponlets
ohhh :> is such a good tongue :3 am really looking forward to the animation :3 (kinda wanna see if she smothers the viewers face with those toes too) :3
CakeInferno
The rig Disregard made used the one I made for Zoe for reference, so it's fairly similar! I however added a ton of blend shapes later on so it can morph into an U and other shapes! <:
Ponlets
did you update your tongue rig? :3 it looks so good :>
Brian Graham
Ah, I wasn't sure if there was lore behind it. Thank you.
CakeInferno
Yep, this one is first person! Then Encounter 3 will be a mix of third and first person! (:
CakeInferno
I'm happy you like her! <3
CakeInferno
It's slowly rendering over night! And there's going to be some on-screen saliva, aye! <:
CakeInferno
Can't wait to show the rendered version of this! :D
CakeInferno
Thanks so much, we've come a long way! (:
CakeInferno
Can you try leaving the post open for a bit? These gifs are a tad large and need a moment to load unfortunately. D:
CakeInferno
NOMF!
CakeInferno
UAHHHHHHHHHHH!
CakeInferno
Many thanks! Can't wait to show more! :D
CakeInferno
Aye, she's a huge step up from my janky Zoe rig, haha!
CakeInferno
I was planning to have them, yeah! They do make sense here since it's a POV experience from start to finish. (:
CakeInferno
Once the rest of the scenes are done, aye! :D
CakeInferno
Hoping so too, it's certainly coming along well!
CakeInferno
Very much, even if in this animation she'll mostly just be swallowing things instead! <:
CakeInferno
It goes in quite far, mwahhahahah~!
CakeInferno
Thanks so much! <3
CakeInferno
Happy to hear that! <3
CakeInferno
Yep, she surely wasn't pleased! But no worries, she won't be furious for the entire thing! <:
CakeInferno
Here's hoping! The first render tests are certainly coming out well! There's a lot more to come, though! <3
CakeInferno
Glad you like! :D
CakeInferno
Not really a story behind it, other than her being an almighty djinn. I thought the effect of her dissolving into sand was the most fitting basically! (:
CakeInferno
:D
CakeInferno
Apologies! The gifs are admittedly a bit large in size. Can you leave the post open for a while to see if they load?
KingdomZanny
Can everyone else see the gifs and images? I can't, they're all broken. :(
Asimple10
So there'll be a 3rd person and 1st person animation? That's great
Blue
Chloe is a cool character
Jade B
Oh gosh, I can't wait to see this fully rendered. I hope she drools onto the POV character >/////>
Coty Clogston (Ticklefish. ItsMe)
It's coming out so well! OwO
taifvas
You continue to outdo yourself, Cake. Great work!
KingdomZanny
I can't see the gif, it's broken. :(
aLlsonWA
Whoa!!!
MileHighBrid
GRAAAAAAHHHHH!
Michael Lee Vogel
This is looking awesome so far cake, you and disregard are doing awesome at this, I'm so excited for this
Disregard
Seeing my handiwork at play is really satisfying! This is gonna be killer!
MF2716
Hoooot.. Is there gonna be saliva-on-screen effects in this one? I recall it was too much to render them in the last few animations.
Onyx Bunnler
This is gonna be so amazing! We'll it already it but even more amazing in the future
Bigmudder 24
This one’s gonna be a banger I can already tell
Kuja48
amazing -///- would be wonderful to be in a line up of sacrifices, her taking her time to savor each one before swallowing them down as the rest watch.
GizmoChinasa
Oooooh boy, I love that tunnel-like throat of hers
Ultimate_Nemesis
Amazing work as always! :)
Sean OReilly
Such an amazing visual
Charles J Burgess
Lol, I like how furious she looked just before she teleported :D Those internal animations look phenomenal!
Mesa123
YOOOO New Cake Post Just Dropped! X3 FR I could already feel my heart race as her mouth slowly draws closer to the camera and of course you're already knocking the animation quality outta the park! 💗💗🔥🔥🔥
VoreLover3
Looks Amazing Cake, and the teleportation is cool!
Brian Graham
This is amazing. I love that teleportation animation. Is there a story behind it? Your work is so impressive. You can see your passion and love in each on. Thank you for sharing.
Tomthexboxnerd107
Oh my!
