Sunday Progress Report (Patreon)

Welcome to the process report ^_^

this week I've been up to a few things.

Two way interaction between soft bodies and fluid. some RnD for making the internal shots nice and squishy, I've attached an Research and Development test render with a rubber, a single surface is far quicker to simulate (and debug) than full on softbody dynamics what was learned with this is sure to come in handy. Even if I can't pull off full on simulation on the internals the effect is rather pleasing, with better dialed in settings it could make a good one off animation for one of the characters. :D

Got the wolf to the point where rigging is done enough for work to be started on the fur, but he's not far enough along to show yet.

The big finish is getting blocked in, currently very rough with just a timing pass and not really worth showing. Getting this animation dialed in and rendered will be the main thing I work on next week.    

What I can show off is the individual rendered loops from the assembly cut shown off last week along with some new faster internal shot loops. 

I would have liked to work more on all of the above but it's been "extreme heat warning" hot. This has been going on for over a week, days where it's hard to think and nights with very little sleep (the buildings here are designed to keep heat in). Because of this I worked on what I could, when I could. Thankfully the weather has calmed some and is now back to hot but manageable temperatures. I'm look forward to having concentration back during the day.  

One final thing I asked the executive producers to choose which two characters they wanted to see in the next animation... it was 5 votes for the wolf 2 for the ott and 2 for the fox. So another runoff poll went up between the Fox and Ott, which also ended in a tie with both getting 3 a piece. Because of this deadlock I'm going to put up a poll open to all  Insider Access and Executive Producer tiers shortly after this report goes up.... if that ends in a tie I'm flipping a coin. (and with the luck I'm having it'll land on its edge) 

Anywhoo I hope you enjoy the loops, and I'll see you next week. (be sure to go vote in the poll if you want to) 

Oh and the very last thing, whoever gets chosen is going to be very full. (I tested and it's right on the edge but the otter will just about fit the wolf ;)