Sunday Progress Report (Patreon)

Here we are again ^_^ Things done this week, got the insertion animation done and rendered for the new Fox and Otter animation (Will need to come up with a title at some point), again when the full animation is done I'll likely cut this before the loop and it'll play once but I thought it'd be nice to also have it as a loop so you can enjoy it whilst waiting for the full animation to be done :) 

Next week I'll work on another loop and try to have it rendered by the next progress report, some nice slow thrusting, and for the alt version a nice bit of knotting. ^_^ I'll also be continuing on with the tech work below... 

This is the part where I do some technical rambling, feel free to skip it :) 

I'm moving over to a new script based framework that is used in commercial productions to allow for far quicker character iterations. There is boatload of documentation to get through and I'm repurposing existing scripts along with creating new ones. The upfront work is worth it. If something needs altering to a character, after the mesh has been corrected it takes about 10mins a fully functional animation ready rig to be rebuilt (something that used to take me days of manual work) work is continuing to modularize everything I should eventually be down to a single click solution. Also If I find something that needs updating on all characters, a script can be updated then quick rebuilds happen of all of them rather than going into each file and doing tedious work by hand.  

Along with this framework is a different way of creating rigs (the animation system of a character) that is far faster due to using matrix math instead of constraints. Less time needed to spend sitting around when animating waiting for a viewport capture (playblast) to view the animation in real time, instead having it run at (or close to) full speed in the viewport.  

technical waffle over. 

See you all next week :D

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