Hello! It's June already, and just like last year, it's time for some revisits. starting off with FF14's

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2 animations per character revisit. planned to add some more character, alas, as usual I wasted too much time fixing stuff. some animation don't have nude variations as a result. tis what it is. posing them early really did end up saving me time though.

I'll animate more Duo Sphene threesome when it's time for the new Sphene to debut.

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I skipped her last week because of server maintenance, so it's her turn this time. it's Wayakkwe.

..I really can't trust FF14 lighting... making color appear not as it should. like the jacket look greenish ingame but when imported to Blender with correct color values, they appear yellowish. same case with Cirina a while back. tbh idk if it's the lighting or it's because they use too much filters. sometimes things look too washed out, sometimes things look too warm. it's confusing.

After Eutrope who always seem to look angry, now we have Wayakkwe...who is always seem to frown in all the screenshots I've seen.

I admit I haven't learned enough stuff about her or any Dawntrail NPCs. So thank you for those who explain their quick lore summary to me. I really appreciate it. it saves me time. gave me some good ideas as well for them. My plan for her is the same old debut set like every other character. maybe including Nostalgia in some of her animations like I said in previous post.

oh..There is also this :

I grabbed her off the demo. And she is not done yet. I'm currently having a hard time with her shaders trying to make her to look as good as she looks ingame. especially her hair and eyes.

I'm just that bad at adapting some Unreal's shaders to Blender. perhaps I'm missing some materials...it's only a demo after all. 2 days after the demo released on PC, people already grabbed Eve and shared her model on the internet. with luck, I won't even have to rig the rest of the characters. The game is really that popular. ....while I can just leave it to pro rigger and shader master out there, I still want to try to do my own rig and shaders on the characters too. (though, if someone released better optimized models than mine, I'll just use theirs. haven't checked on all of them.)

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The Monthly 15 is next followed by Barn's mother debut the week after. when Barn's mother is out of the way, then I can finally use the monthly timeslot for debuting FF7R characters.

I'm still deciding on who to add for the other revisits late this month. so far I've added ZERO beside Cissnei and Tifa. been awhile since I animated her. I'll add more characters.... perhaps a KH character? if not, I'll just animate more CC Cissnei. I just want more Cissnei really.

That is all for this week. I'll buy Stellar Blade next week, I don't think I can play it this month, but at least I can tinker with the game files while rendering some animations as usual.

Thanks for all your kind support and donations m(_ _)m

Always do take care, stay safe, and may good luck be with you in anything you do. see you next week~

Hello!! it's another petite drill this time, Alma! can you believe FF14 Ivalice raid released 7 years ago? or was it 8 years ago? ..but anyway, it's Alma Laxentale debut.

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..Among all the petites I've done so far. She got the most distinctive head to shoulder ratio.
her head is so big and her shoulders small, no matter what camera angle I use, she will look like she's smaller than she actually is. not to mention her babyface. So I gave up trying to fix her and just roll with it. 

I don't think I can render her tactics variations without sacrificing some time slots. clothed and nude versions already took most of the schedule. didn't know why I thought at the time it's possible to render all 3 variations in time lol. maybe sometime in the future.

Also somewhat regretting that I didn't use Allagan tomestone phone model in one of the videos.  the use of tomestone phone didn't even crossed my mind up until the videos uploaded. welp. me and my goldfish brain.

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It's one of many Tifa Fans. Amina

I like her mole. should I add another one on her breast? 

Yes I like beauty marks. especially on girls with Hime cuts like Gentiana or 14's Yotsuyu. mainstream design choice I know, but it still activates my neuron. now..., who's next from 7? Jenny? There is also Myrna and Eleanor. oh...I almost forgot about the new Cissnei too. how about Rhonda as well? damn...

...Or I could rig another FF14 girl. I'm almost running out of 14 characters to debut. I believe only 3 left to debut. is there any new 14 girls from the new patch? I know Sphene is coming back with new costume but what is the difference? if there is no difference in hairstyle, I'd just make her wear skimpy costume in June revisit. last Sphene set was really popular judging from the amount of likes and bookmarks. so she is a returning character for sure.

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The only ideas I had in my head last week about 15. nothing unusual, but might as well go full set. may still do another Winter Aranea too. if not in that attire, then maybe something else.

I've decided I'll debut Seven for the extra week. if stars aligned, Sice as a cameo would be nice... recent happenings make my head a bit blank on ideas ngl. probably just need some extra hours of sleep.

That's about it for this week.
Thank you for your kind support and donation as always m(_ _)m
I wish you endless good luck, stay safe and take care! see you next week!

Greetings The mighty Khagan of Azim steppe. Cirina is here today ready to please. I believe such is the privilege of being the Khagan.

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Cirina here was a bit tricky to animate. had to fix lot of problems. the more I fix, the more problem occurs. And my sense got a bit numb too in the process. but I did say I was going to go easy on her, so I chose poses that are not too difficult for me to animate. I included a cameo character as well~ more 3some incoming once our cameo guest debut. at least that's the ideal plan in my head. still have to fix a lot in the rig first.

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And it's Naomi for today's new model or.. Neomi.... I'll just call her Naomi.

That's the second beach girl done. I believe only 1 left. though, feels like I'm forgetting someone in Costa. idk who.

Well you know who's next on the list to complete the set. And Maybe Chloe next after I rigged all 3 of them. or, I could decide again based on what comment and DMs I got~ but gotta finish those 3 girls first. going to do 4some at least one in each girl's debut. that's the plan.

Seeing the responses from last week, it seems I'll be playing Stellar Blade after all. The girls are hot and pretty, so why not. and looking at the trend going forward, I might start playing more Chinese and Korean games from now on... as long as it's not a gacha game. 

I'll try to animate the girls too.. especially with how beautiful their characters look. like usual, probably would still focus on the less popular characters just to fill the empty space. hopefully it's not a headache to mod. but for now, there are still plenty of beautiful characters to rig and debut from FF.  so I better get back to it.

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The usual petite character drill next month for Fanbox readers since Yluna is "involved" in majority of the scenes. after her, it's Anabella's debut. and based on the order, it's Vanille debut after Anabella. so I'm preparing for her too.

Fang might also make a cameo in 1 or 2 videos with Vanille. since these 2 are inseparable. ....ma-maybe Lightning as wellllll? no promises though.

Better not get too ambitious or I'll regret it later when I notice some problems that need fixing in post production. 4some animation is still a challenge for me. mostly about the time wasted fixing stuff. but practice is important anyway..I need it to improve. so why not...we'll see.

That's it for this week~! thanks for your kind support and donations as always m(_ _)m

wishing you all the best in all you do in life. please take care and stay safe! see you next week~

Greetings~ Are you well? it's Time for Y'shtola and Zero. not a surprising duo at all for some FF14 fans out there.

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I'm tired lol. but it was pretty fun.  I'm still not that great at posing yet sadly. I wasted some time fixing things and did a couple of revisions for them. The cuddle animation was initially scrapped, but I decided to upload it as well. Maybe I'll fix it in the future.

I think I overdid it. I'm going back to my usual pace after this...I even had to sacrifice some sleep time for them.  I'm afraid it'll affect my IRL job eventually if I keep going at this pace. I still want to do it once in a while though. 4 or 5 animations a week still seems to be the limit for me at the moment. 

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Adding another Type-0 girl to the list. Rem Tokimiya

Her face contour is really similar to Reunion's Cissnei for some reason. or maybe it's just me.  not many complicated parts to rig too, so it was an easy one.

Well that's the second type-0 girl I rigged and I haven't even animated Seven yet.

probably would rig Sice for the next type 0 girl. if I'm not distracted by the other girls first.

tbh, I still haven't got the motivation to do the side characters from this game.

Maybe I'll do the main casts first since they are the only ones polished in the remaster for some odd reason. 

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But can I handle a 4some of XV characters? ( Reminder that I'm still a noob here haha.) It is also somewhat of a real test for the new PC. I'm going to try and use physics sim and subdivision modifier on all 3 of XV characters in 1 scene. Hair,boobs etc. 

In normal use cases, physics sim is not necessary at all. in fact, it's better to not use physics for multiple detailed characters on screen as the end result probably wouldn't be that much better than manual animations anyway. sometimes it could be even worse and it's quite performance heavy. not to mention the baked cache size and mesh clipping clean up. I just want to know the limit of the new PC. and, it's good practice. 

phew...That is all for this week~ 

Thank you for your kind support and donation as always m(_ _)m

do take care, stay safe, and good luck in whatever you do in life. see ya!

Hello~ How you've been? It's the end of August already. Another Updates and Renders~ Anyway, This week's ladies are here.  check them out below:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/111306203

https://porn3dx.com/post/50131

https://files.catbox.moe/0asx08.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/zytziy.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/bfq4hn.mp4

Compared to the twins from NieR, I had an easier time animating these three.

Maybe because FF14 hairs are just simple glob of mesh. 

These three are considered to be the mother figures of FF14.

At least recently. Before, it was either F'lhaminn or Miounne as far as I know. What is with Endwalker and Mothers btw? The twins have a beautiful elegant lady, The WoL have Venat and poor Erichthonios have Athena. 

Our WoL will end up smashing everyone's mother at this rate.....(MILFwalker?)

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Speaking of WoL, That's what I usually call the male model I use for all of my animations.
As you know, my animations are all heavily focused on the women.  But I received some messages saying I should animate certain girls with certain male model because it's "canon". Well, I don't really think about canon or non canon. I just animate the girls I like.  I usually picture him as me.

You can also interpret him as you or whoever you like. The male is not my main focus. There is actually no head behind the helmet. I make him wear a helmet, because some composition only look good with his head in frame. I only remove it whenever I need to use POV angle. And the helmet fit to any Final Fantasy Universe imo. 

But I do prefer using male model with big body size. it creates a great contrast. especially if the female is petite.

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The newly rigged FF14 models this week are Alisaie and Minfilia ARR.
(check the attached renders)

One of the reason I rigged Alisaie, because I have an idea of doing Oyakodon animation in the future. I need to remaster her mother model first however. My Ameliance model is quite outdated.  It probably shows how bad it is in some frames compared to Venat & Athena.

As for Minfilia, no reason really. I saw her name and I just rig when I had free time. I intend to add her Hydalin hair and outfit later.

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This week, I also fixed some of my FF15 rigs. Mainly Aranea and Lunafreya. 

Now the shapekey drivers and correction bones are better. Should make it easier to setup difficult poses from now on. I probably will animate Luna next to test my new tweak, then the monthly Aranea after, then maybe another FF14 character after that. 

That is all. thank you for all the support and donations! m(_ _)m

Hi~ This week's ladies are here.
Looks like my PC managed to survive all three renders. Super proud considering this PC is almost 8 years old already. I promise I will use the support donations for PC upgrades in the future. However, that might take a while, because PC hardware products are super expensive in this part of the world.

check them out below:
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/111104909

https://files.catbox.moe/eh8seb.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/unu86s.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/c63tob.mp4

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I got 2 more FFXIV characters rigged this week.  Hilda from Heavensward and Meteion from Endwalker.

I intended to rig Lucia this week, but I got reminded of Hilda and suddenly my motivation shifted to Her. Elezen is tricky to get the rigging right anyway. Really weird propotions. That said, Lucia is not an Elezen, She is a Garlean but using an Elezen body type.  Same with Venat and the other ancients for some reason. Making it more tricky for my rig to look right in some poses. They are going to look funny with that super long legs.

I find Elezen quite sexy & elegant though. Like Mother Miounne. Does anyone remember her? I bet she has a naughty secret or two. What if she is secretly training Kan-E behind her counter?

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I said I maybe will animate a random FF14 character next, but...Might as well try to animate an elezen and two 'not elezens' in weird positions. This will serve as a good practice.
(check the attached renders for spoiler)

That's it! Thank you for the support and donations! m(_ _)m