Hello again! I hope you are okay no matter where you are.  Sorry for those who are sick of Aranea, but I don't think I'll stop animating her anytime soon. However,I have an idea of changing the "Monthly Aranea" to "Monthly XV". where I'd still animate 3 animations at the minimum with random XV characters per month. But, It's still going to feature Aranea in at least one of the animations (i need my pills).

So it'll be like 1 Aranea and 2 random XV girls animations at the very least every month. How does that sound?  seems like a good excuse to finally animate Cindy or Monica too (or even young Luna?).

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I miss her wearing lingerie and glasses, so it's just that simple theme this time.
let me know what's your thought about Monthly XV. I feel like I'm still gonna do it though.

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It's finally here! it's time for the first component upgrade for my PC. and it's all thanks to your support m(_ _)m

Like I said in my first Hardware report, I'm aiming to get at least a dual fan RTX 4070 for rendering purposes. Especially with the upcoming new Blender render engine "EEVEE NEXT" around the corner. Here it is , RTX 4070 SUPER :

According to many Blender benchmarks, 4070 is still the best for 3D workflow in "value" compared to it's AMD equivalent apparently..

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This is the cheapest 4070 SUPER and it costs around $630 (usd) over here while the other brands go as high as $700 or more.  The alternative to this would be a used RTX 3090. A used 3090 is around the same price over here with bigger VRAM. But I couldn't tell if the 3090s have been abused for mining or not. most of them has void warranty too (and it's power hungry).

For my own benchmark and comparison, I rendered the previous Santa Bikini Sophia and Neon at 4K. Because these two together is the heaviest render of all time for my PC. (SoP models are heavier than XV's and FF7R's believe it or not. especially the hair).

My GTX 1080 rendered the 1st frame in 2 minutes, while the new 4070 SUPER rendered the 1st frame in just 30 seconds. both cards using EEVEE as the render engine.

Might not seem like a lot, but for every video , I have to render around 930 images (that's 30 seconds long video). it's a huge time saver. especially if I noticed things that I have to fix after I'm done with rendering.  Which means I have to render all 930 images again.

As for my old GTX 1080, I'm not going to sell it. it's going back in the box. It has served me well in the past 8 years, and it's still useful as a back up GPU if something bad happens to the 4070.

(you've done well GTX 1080, Thank you for your hard work.)

Now that my GPU is good for at least 2 or 3 years, it's time to lock my sight on a brand new CPU and RAM. I'm planning to upgrade my DDR4 RAM first from 2x8 (16gb)  to 2X32 (64GB) before I migrate to a new CPU and motherboard. For CPU, since I'm still going to use DDR4, My aim is set on i7 12700, i5 13600 or i7 13700 for their single core performance in Blender. 

I'm excited to use the new card for rendering and it wouldn't be possible without your kind support and donations. Once again I must say :

I'll update you when It's time to finally upgrade my next component too!

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Since FF7R rebirth is knocking at everyone's door, might as well rig someone from 7.
it's Jessie's mom. or Mrs Rasberry.

With her rigged, I think the only mom character left from 7Remake is Elmyra Gainsborough. ...There is also character like Madam M, Scarlet and Kyrie Canaan, but it feels like Scarlet is everywhere already, and someone already rigged Madam M. I guess It's Kyrie Canaan next time?

She is just a minor character and the only thing I know, is that Mrs Rasberry here like to give people pizza apparently. what kind of pizza is Midgar special anyway?
why the boys like it so much? ....beside her, I also fixed my old Ifalna and Claudia rig.

I might animate them together in the future but idk when. Mrs Rasberry is coming first before them though, and it's still a long way from now. And sadly I won't be able to play the new rebirth until it's on PC, but FF7 is big, we might see some models leak here and there.
I'd animate the side characters like usual however.

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It's Saryu. the usual drill for her just like any petite characters.
After Saryu, I want to animate FFX Yuna. but maybe just X yuna and not X-2. I'll wait until I rig all three X-2 girls for that.

That is all! 
As alwaays thanks for your kind support and donation. really, thank you! m(_ _)m
See you next week!