Weekly WIP #82 (Boo! Where's the release?!)

•  Black Menagerie (Name Undetermined) Tekken - Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort
•  Christmas 2024

•  I had to scroll down a bit to recall what Weekly # this should be. Seems I went on a mini-release streak there.

•  Christmas 2024 is ready to render fully. Amazing. Usually, I'm still tweaking the final bits a week before release. I always start early though so I make sure to get something out in time. This year, well, is a hell of a lot less complicated than last year; or even the Gwen before that. It did hit an early snag though and ended up revamped fully aside from who was the focus. In the end it's a much calmer style this time around, but it fits the theme, scene and characters well. Other than that and this one preview, it'll have to wait til Christmas.

•  I had hit some issues finding suitable (or at least interesting to my personal choice) music for the next Black Menagerie. A few days ago, I finally came across some music that clicked, and the project has taken off.

• I had the 'who' mostly sorted; Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort from Tekken, though Reina was a very close second and probably will be used sooner than later.  The scene build is a bit more detail than I need, of course, but I'm enjoying piecing it together. Instead of it being purely set in a club, this one is more like a personal setup in a penthouse apartment. Since Lili is Monégasque (from the Principality of Monaco), I went with trying to make the scene feel Mediterranean/French/Italian.

• The lounging lady in pale red isn't anyone specific; just one of the watchers/buyers. She's actually a mix up of a couple characters since the base had some super janky parts, along with some texture edits of my own. A much smaller gathering for the show this time as well. 3-5 tops. Panam had 7, but alas they weren't even seen.

•  This one is also a lot easier on the eyes for flashing. A softer feel to the music helps, for one thing, and the general setup idea keeps it toned down too.  Rich rather than rave. And lastly for it, I'm trying out my own settings for Ambient Occlusion. I've been using the settings someone else (who I can't recall) used, but they just don't click right for me. So, maybe I'll get that sorted as well.  Keeping in mind that a lot of models simply don't support AO at all, thus, not every project can even have that turned on.

Weekly WIP #77

•  Black Menagerie: Panam Palmer - Cyberpunk 2077
•  Misc.

•  Panam's room is now set along with the various background watchers. I was going to have several, somewhere around a dozen, but cut it to 6 for time, memory space, and in the end most wouldn't be visible in the shadowing anyways.

•  Sorta made the Brain Dance type headset things for her to wear. Figure they'd record this and sell it or maybe it's the Club staff. Either way; profit.

•  For section 1 I still need to set the different camera angles as it progresses, adjust things for that angle, and then it should be finish and time to move to section 2; which in theory will go faster since so much can carry over.

•  Not sure if I'd already commented on it or not, but a follower (MaxCoomer) created a spiffy necklace model for me with my little logo icon; so Panam gets to be the first to wear it. They also made a full icon model as well, that splits into pieces and all can be moved about. Both are really great and are sure to pop up in most things from now on.

•  Lastly The Boys Firecracker animation replacement for the Meredith Stout one hasn't progressed much. It's a tricky one to animate and ironically might take longer to make then Panam, so it might get pushed to a bigger thing and I sort yet another smaller one. Or I might just rehash the idea and still use her. I want to use some of these paid for models.

Weekly WIP #7 (Release Date)

•  Free release video will be on Rule34video.com, posted the night before since it takes about a day for things to be cleared. Eventually enough space will be taken up here for storage that SubscribeStar will charge me for it, which is why the free one will be elsewhere.
•  SubscribeStar version will be posted ASAP Sunday, the 25th. This version has the extended ending and is only available to paid tiers.

Weekly WIP Post #6

•  The main section for Ivy is finished, rendered and ready to be Sony Vegased. The intro is as well. That part only took a day or so overall. I'm really pleased with the lighting. Learned a bit more about getting interesting shadows, even just in the main section.
•  The credits, loop(s) and the bonus are all that remains.
•  The Halloween animation is either almost finished (if I keep it simple) or just beginning (if I make it 'complex'). I have ideas for it, but not sure I want Holiday animations to be like that. Loops were always the real idea, even though my first public post ever was Christmas, and it had some length to it.

•  More music. Another 12. Several were snagged with a certain theme in mind.
• I need a specific model to start a project that I really really really want to start. I've asked a few makers/porters about it, since it's just a prop. No responses yet. Since it is just a prop, and nothing complicated like a character with jiggles and flexes and bodygroups and rigs and etc., maybe I can Blender one myself...

•  Follower on Discord expressed their concern about the BM: Ivy video being all in that upright camera video format style. It's a nice effect and does give a sense of 'real', but no it won't be. That was just for a WIP preview and potential loop.
•  BM: Ivy will probably be ready for full release by 18th, but that is not guaranteed. So far things have been somewhat monthly for releases, but that wasn't an intended schedule. Just how it happened to be.
•  I will be 'AFK' from the 6th to the 8th this month. Weekly WIP #7 will, most likely, not have much to it.