Weekly WIP #66

•  Hermione Granger - broom ride practice animation.
•  Sancus 2 Update
•  Vacation Time (Personal time off, not an animation name.)

•  Hermione hates to fly. Probably more so now that she's been given a special broom. Practice animation, but it was decent, so the render is being shared as is. Took about 8 hours or so to piece together, animate and render. I think the broom flying looks pretty good.

•  Sancus 2 almost has all its scenes set. The last section still needs cameras, and an intro is yet to be created. Despite doing better (I think) with cameras, I went back to more pan camera style with Sancus 2, so it tries to keep the same kind of flow as Sancus 1. It will be the focus once I get back to it.

•  As stated awhile back, I'm now gonna take a little time off to 'reset the brain' mostly. Will I manage to stay off SFM for very long? Probably not, but still. It's the thought that counts, I guess. As such, next Weekly WIP post is most likely canceled, unless I can scrounge up something of interest to post for it.

Weekly WIP #45

• Some discussions lately about texture editing and camera settings and such made me decide to show those who might not know the 4 different Ambient Occlusion (shadowing) settings in Source Filmmaker. Chelsea, who I recently acquired and was testing, can be seen with all 4. Which is better? That depends on a lot. Camera settings, lighting, the models, the theme, the style and in the end, personal preference. Personally, for her, I like Outline (Top Right). Gives it a real cartoonish look. Most things have either none or Only Ambient Occlusion. Outline can be, and often is, too dark on the models and you get just black smudges. Notice how her teeth/mouth seem most affected by the settings, since there is such a large concentration of lines there per tooth. The Rey preview further down has Ambient Occlusion Only, which for her and the style/theme, works best.

• I made some large changes in how Rey was setup for the scene, after someone pointed out an accidental planetary occurrence (same background planet as Sancus Program) and instead of changing it, just removed it instead. Also, you can probably ignore the KotoR Sandcrawler. I have a nice Sandcrawler being ported to SFM. Should be ported by the time it's needed. I'm having a blast animating this as well, so yeah instead of a loop it most likely will have a longer span with more scenes and variations. I have been releasing a lot of loops lately from my practices anyways.

• Hermione needs to lay off the reading some, or at least be more careful? Some more previews of what will hopefully be my first Halloween release. Still a major WIP for things like the wetness of skins and objects, camera positions and angles, and even general positions of the characters.

• I've bought several models lately or paid for the ports of others. Spent probably $150ish USD to further SFM projects. Nice to be able to do that. Let's me get some 'exclusive/rare' models in a way. I've spent several nights awake working on things too, even if it was just testing models or editing sounds. I'd took a little time off here and there and it seems it's built up nicely, so I am a workaholic at the moment. Making use of it.

• Be sure to check Twitter/'X' for a Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Rebecca practice video.

Weekly WIP #44

• Yeah, I spent the week practicing and doing small things like a little meme video posted to Twitter of Nani from Lilo and Stitch dancing. It was quick and rough, but cute I think and was fun to do. Didn't realize how nice Nani's thighs were on that model. They jiggle further down than any model I've used. It would give her more of an impact motion, so might use her in a holiday project sometime.

• I decided to practice general posing. Never hurts to get better in any aspect. So, I picked a pic I liked and Violet Parr seemed fitting based on size. For another quick throw together, it came out well. Separated the renders, in case anyone wants them.

• I keep thinking that I'm not "official" til I make something Star Wars, so, I am. Jawa Sex Slavers. Another thing based on a picture but changed quiet a lot and it'll be an animated loop. Also, unlike the picture's single angle, it will have a few angles.

• Lastly, I really like Alan13 models. I've raved about them more than once on my Discord. Seeing as how I gave Alan13's Hermione Granger the best wet textures I've ever managed, I really wanna use her in something. Then I recalled that Halloween project last year that was postponed, and then I realized that based on the setting and theme, even if I don't get it finished in time, it can still work as a general release. Anyways, about the animation. As you can see from the book cover I made for it, Hermione is reading up on werewolves and as you can see from the preview of her, well, things are about to get 'hairy', cause it's 'Harry' Potter, and werewolves are h... ok yeah, anyways. The original Halloween idea was with an adult version of Creepy Susie from uh, some cartoon I never watched. Apparently, she was born on Halloween. At any rate, Hermione took over that project. Susie can be used in something else later, maybe.