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.

Weekly WIP Post #5

• Several edits for the Halloween project. Blushes, like usual, for the character(s) in it. Even had to make a book cover (still a WIP). The book may reappear in other projects down the line as well if I like how it turns out.
• No new textures for Ivy. This far in that's usually sorted already.

•  The main section for Ivy is probably 95% finished. 5% based on the 'what the hell is that?!' I might come across down the line and more and more smoothing of any rough areas.
•  The Halloween animation is meant to be a small loop. I would guess it's more than half finished. Lots of particle effects.

•  I've found around 25 new music pieces for future projects. Even a few 'odd' choices, given my previous selections. Disco! That's right. Disco. I have no idea what they'll be for, if ever used, but they were good, so I had to snag them.
•  No new models collected this week, though the hunt for who I might hire for an OC may start soon.
•  A couple new project ideas sprang to mind. One being another Black Menagerie and the other a homage to one of the animators I was inspired by. Both are duos. Both are Mass Effect in character theme.

•  Unlike last week, this one went rather well overall.
•  Friend, who previews nearly everything, liked the WIP Ivy Video a lot based on the phone camera overlay. It does add a bit of 'realism' to it. Looks a bit like footage from a concert or something. That might be a style I use for one of the loops.

Weekly WIP Post #4

• Minor edits to .vmt files (the file that tells SFM what the texture should be like). Now Ivy's collar glows in the dark as it should.

• Ivy's hands now also have the struggling set, pretty much making Ivy and the Machine finished. Some more general smoothing right up until it gets rendered though.
• Worked on camera angles and movements.
• GCPD are set.

• Halloween animation is started. A lot of the scene is built (graveyard). Took a long time to edit the .vmt files for the tombstones, so I could make them appear wet from rain. I've added that effect to character models before, but not inanimate objects, so I had to sort what the file even needed. Now I know though for future things.
• Found some more sounds and converted them for SFM use. Mostly monstrous growls.
• And that's about it really. This week have been pretty horrible, both in SFM and out. As such, there hasn't been as much progress on any projects as I'd have liked. In fact, 2 ideas have been scrapped (ones I've not mentioned) and the bonus/secret part for Poison Ivy has to be remade from scratch. Thankfully I hadn't gone too far into that one. I did have some ideas on other things for later though, including the next Black Menagerie Club after Poison Ivy.