Sunday Progress Report (Patreon)

Further animation work for Staying In Eating Out Part 2, Exploratory work on joint based dynamics and also some AI framerate upscaling.

Animation, this week I've spent most of my time polishing existing animation with an eye to getting the first shots completed so they can get added to the render queue. The kiss (which will be the end of this part) has started to be blocked in. I've also done some lighting adjustments and started the first shot rendering, attached is as much as was done at time of writing (there were a few days at the start of the week where some things didn't look too good so it needed to be re rendered) I've also included the current playblast cut so you can see were we are at now. 

Dynamics, Last week the executive producers chose dynamics to be the side activity and I've done some further exploration into them, see 'Ear_Tail_Dynamics_Test_V1' in attachments the lower screen has it on and the upper, off. I really like the subtle swish and overlap it adds to the ears. The movement of the tails is not quite as good. I think I need to be animate them with dynamics in mind, toggling it on and off as I work.

Some of you may have already seen on twitter but I'm playing around with the DAIN neural network framerate upscaler. It does not take long to set up and can easily be run during downtime. I ran the Otter Explorer - Paws through it and you can see that 48fps in HD on the post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38194587  I'll slowly go through all the animations try them out, the ones that look good will get uploaded and I'll let you know about them in these reports.   

The plan for the coming week is to continue working on the animation during the day, and render parts that are complete overnight.

As for the side activity for this week, I polled the Executive Producers to decide what it should be and it ended in a tie, so as a tiebreak I'll be shortly putting up the two leading options as a one off 24 hour poll be sure to go vote ^_^