Sunday Progress Report (Patreon)

I'm back :D Hope you all had a fun festive period, and that 2021 is better than 2020!

Had a nice relaxed time chilling out and doing a very methodical PC setup, some time was spent tinkering with render settings and along with a new much chonkier CPU means more samples can be used, renders are sharper with less noise,  and it's only taking as long to render as it was before (about 4m30s a frame). I've also altered the color balance so renders will be less 'contrasty' and blown out, after all this was done I took the time to re-render the bits I'd already done for Staying In Eating Out part 3

Things I've done this week, finishing off the otter rebuild and polishing up camera 3 of Staying In Eating Out

Otter rebuild, he's got a brand new groom, the more performant rig system, much better default pose, far less heavy blendshape usage, and general improvements to the sculpt, I've included some cheeky poses ^_^

Staying In Eating Out cam 3 polishing. Polishing is going over animation that's almost done and making sure all those little touches are done, blinks, eyelines, finger placement, and copious amounts of animation spline massaging. I must say working with the new faster rigs is like a dream, being able to fine tune the nuance without having to constantly run mini viewport captures (playblasts) to see the changes has allowed for much faster working. I've also added the dynamics today (well right up until this post was made) and this camera angle will be off to rendering this evening. I've also included a few preview renders. :D

Main activity for the coming week will be further work on Staying In Eating Out, will look to extend and refine the animation on camera angle 4. The side activity that has been voted for this week by the Executive Producers is rebuilding the Tiger, So I'll be implementing the new rig speed improvements, groom V2, redoing the sculpt in a 'neutral' starting pose and a lot of other little QOL things I've added onto the other rigs over time. 

Let me know what you think in the comments :)