Cannon sizes? Yar. I'm not a fan of incorrect character shapes. Marie Rose is mousy. Anna/Elsa are mousy. Making them busty/thick, to me, is stupid. Same as if you made like, Tina Armstrong from Dead or Alive flat/skinny. Incorrect.
   
    "Skinny Mini"? Yar. It's my loving term for the sexy skinny/flats, who for a long time now seem to have been forsaken. Even when one gets used, they're often blown up to incorrect shapes.

    Thankfully, my favorite model makers tend to make cannon sizes, or at least in the case of the Anna and Elsa models I'm using, a flex to make them so. So no, there won't be thick versions or double Ds on Anna/Elsa.

    Now that that's out of the way.

    *sings*

    Princess Elsa has to stay "on top" of her sister Anna all the time. No, not like that! Maybe later though....
    As such, will Anna get the present she wanted? Did Elsa manage to find such a thing? Is that poor bear being smooshed by skinny-mini thighs? What the hell is.... electricity?
    Oh, she'll get her present, the bear it rather content, and who needs electricity when you have.... MAGIC!

    So other projects were meant to reignite my love/passion/drive/fun for SFMing. They failed. This, however, has; and it's a Christmas project. Go Figure. Those that came before it were some of the most annoying things I've made, but that was because they had a Christmas song and let's be honest. Who the hell can tolerate Gene Aubry singing the same song bit over and over and over and over and over and you get my point.
    This does have a Christmas theme, but only at the start, before the wonderous Ramma-Jam kicks in and starts pumping out all those lovely techno/rave sounds. See what I did there?

    Anyways.

    I've really been having fun creating this, even when things have gone a bit janky and ideas for various bits have been scrapped out of it. I've even added in things I've yet to do, or do well at least, and they've come out really good. My Quality Assurance person assures me it is of quality? Yeah.... that.

    Another sleeping shot of Anna, this time after the sun has come up, along with the examples of her being a "skinny mini" and lastly, the Ramma-Jam thus far. It's not fully built. Anna is putting it together piecemeal and testing it as she goes. Her teddy-bear is assisting, or some such.
    Honestly, I thought about making these like instruction manual sheets for her to be reading to make it and yeah, no. That's a bit much. Instead, it'll just be a manual booklet and fade out/ins with the new sections added.
    I'm trying not to show off too much of the actual animation. Also, I am going back to showing more of the 'how it was made' style previews as well. There isn't enough to show on Weekly's otherwise, really. Might make a small trailer for this, given time, like I did with Valentine's Day.

    Lastly, I did some practices earlier in the week using Shadowheart and Mizora from Baldur's Gate 3. They're rough as hell, cause they were practices after all. I'm going to toss the best of each on Discord.

    Christmas? Yup. It's officially started; for the second time this year. I'd already abandoned an idea early to start another for it, only for that one to actually screw up, causing me to rehash and start the original idea which is going fantastic thus far. I'm pretty excited about it, so much so I've been working my ass off this week on just it, putting aside other things to work more.

    Anna (Disney Frozen) receives a special gift from 'a friend'. In her excitement and haste to try it out, she doesn't fully read the manual it comes with, causing a....fun "situation" to occur.

    What you're seeing in the two preview pics is the opening segment where the credits will be (Anna sleeping/waking up) and the room where the rest of the animation will take place (fireplace). The intro is nearly complete along with a small segway and the very beginning of the "situation".

    This animation is a bit more "traditional Zjera"? By that I mean it won't be tame like last year with Batgirl and Mr. Freeze. Not saying I dislike that one, it was nice to do a more subtle animation overall, but this year will go back to a more hardcore feel/sound.

    I've not stopped Black Cat Cafe, but it's certainly slowed to a crawl. I meant to go one way, but went another, and now I'm trying to see if I can get it back the original way without having to start over. If not, I'll just soldier on with it the way it was going. It's not bad, just not what I wanted.

    Still too many ideas floating in my head and more keep popping up. Lot of small things though, so some loops or even just still frame pics may come along. Some big projects too; I've got this idea for a kind of racing event....

    So yeah, awhile back I created, compiled and released No Cure. The animation was good. The playback was good. The finalized video was a grainy piece of shit. The only thing I could ever sort was a setting in Sony Vegas must have been wrong. I was still testing different output settings. The initial release was horrid and I guess it haunted me.

    It's back.

    This time though, it came out as intended. I cut down some on the dust storm effect, which might have also contributed to the initial release issues and the ending is a bit different; instead of just FemShep and the same krogan, the krogan changes (via armor variations) to illustrate the passing of time with numerous participants.

    Hope you enjoy it this time.

    Not a lot to say this week. No Cure is about half rerendered, which has taken the bulk of time. It should be ready by next Saturday. It will again be a free release. I've tested a few sections to see how Vegas settings are treating it this time around and things are good.

    Other than that, there isn't much to report on. Render weeks are always pretty slow for anything else. No new models. I did start a small loop involving Honoka from Dead or Alive. Checked on a few other things. Not much can be done during a render.

    Alrighty. A little early, but an obvious result. Seems people were as let down by No Cure - Mass Effect - FemShep rendering for shit as I was. Having checked the file, I noticed some effects went a little janky, so, I'll tweak what needs to be tweaked and get that going asap.

    I've been rendering Face to Face - Baldur's Gate 3 - Lae'zel/Shadowheart when weather and time allow. Decided against the multi-angles. KISS Method or Less is More concept. It's meant to be a facial expression animation, so why was I doing an angle of just the hips? I keep adding more and more to these things lately. Projects need to stick to what I thought of that got it going in the first place, unless it really helps or the original idea just doesn't work. Black Cat Cafe is a good example. It's a bloated mess now that I need to sort.

    So next week is a big ol' render week. Face to Face will be ready for sure, so next Saturday wil be a release. By the way, decided that one will be a more exclusive release. Invester Tier+. Try to make up for the lack of any extra additions to things for so long. No Cure will be free for all, like it was before.

    Short and sweet. Well maybe not sweet.