January Update 2 (Attachments!) (Patreon)

Hi ^_^

Well here we are, almost done. Included in the attachments is the animation so far with a very messy pullout shot, nice and gooey. I've just one more shot to go on this, a nice cuddle between the two to finish it off, it's already blocked out and if simulation hadn't eaten so much of the time it could have been done today.  

However, simulation and rendering do take a lot of time. To give you an idea, Base simulation: ~4h, Meshing: ~2h, Map creation: ~2h, rendering ~24h so in total about 1 day 8 hours for each version of the simulation. Size on disk is 75gig (150gig for both)
    
It's highly frustrating to get part way through any particular step to find something is not working correctly, I've included two "WIP/FAIL" versions of this shot that managed to get to rendering before I saw the issues. The first for some reason has a cache error and was including things from a previous version, the second the motion vectors for the motion blur had been incorrectly calculated so everything started to look flickery/blurry  

The coming month I'm going to do the final shot of the animation with the two cuddling and look to get audio recorded and edited.  

This animation has taken a lot of time and I do appreciate everyone that supports me in going to these extreme lengths to create it, whilst dealing with health issues.

Hopefully this will all be finished next month and I'll start looking at animations with shorter runtimes but the same amount of detail, along with new characters and locations.

So there we are, I do hope you enjoy the animation so far, the sticky pullout and I'll be back next month (if everything works out) and have a completed animation with audio to share.