December Updates and W.I.P - Part 1 (Patreon)

Hey guys! Hope you all are having a good end of year! Its definetely been a rough one for me.
Anyways, I wanted to give you some updates on how things are going, my plans for the patreon page and some work in progress updates on what I've been working on these last few weeks.
Since not all of you will be interested in this, Im gonna start to the most interesting part which is the W.I.P of the current works.

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- W.I.P of animation collab / Octane x Fuse - Apex Legends -

As you guys have probably noticed, I've been pretty involved with @azog3d/elliot in my recent works as he is creating all the models for the last animations. I pay for those models with the patreon money, but hes been through some difficult times and I've decided to help him more aswell as help him grow his patreon. For that, last month I've made a donation to help him with some upgrades to his hardware, and this month Im collabing with him and made an short animation of his choice so he could post it on his patreon, but of course I will bring it to you guys too. It is done already and Im just finishing the audio for it. It will be out this week!

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- Next Winning Poll Animation - Overwatch -

Being completely honest with you guys, I haven't started the animation process of the next big animation yet. The poll won Hanzo and Soldier, with cassidy in 3rd place.
While I think the first 2 are really hot, I dont think they have chemestry together, so I will be doing 2 separated animations, a classic Cassidy/Hanzo one and a solo Soldier76 one, all with their overwatch 2 skins.
Elliot is creating the models while I learn new skills (more below) and write the ''story'' and make the storyboard for the next animation. The picture above is a preview from elliot's viewport, and soon he will be working on cassidy and soldier too. I will keep you guys updated as things progress.

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- Model Creation Learning - 

The model above is Star-Lord from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy game! Hes not very loved by the community but its a character I identify a lot with and I thought would be a good motivation to be the first model I solo work on.

Although I already did models in the past, they were quite unrealistic and are pretty much outdated for the current standards. This is taking quite some time between getting assets and learning the softwares and its the main reason why I slowed down my work speed.

While working with Elliot has been an amazing experience, I feel its necessary for me to learn how to do it myself as he is not always available and also because I can't share the models he makes as this would be unfair, and I still want to bring the model files for my high tier patrons. For that, I am having videocalls and lessons with both @azog/elliot and @cyrustail's /rebecca who are helping me to figure this process out.

Here's him from the game itself for reference!

And heres a render testing I did with him, I've since updated him a lot more!

Since Marvel won the 2nd place on the voting poll, I think I will use star-lord and Drax (The green guy above) to make a bonus animation in the future (after the overwatch one).

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Since this post was getting too large, I've split it in two parts and will post the next one in a few days! Can't wait to share more with you ♥ 

Hope you have a great day! ☺