Chloé - Showcase (Patreon)

Took a little while longer, but the work on Chloé has finally been completed! I've used the time to make a couple of wallpapers to test out the model and its features, and see how her fur and materials react to various lighting conditions. The wallpapers were all rendered at 8K resolution and can be downloaded at the bottom of the page, just like Disregard's animation.

This expression test should already show a good deal of her functions, including her more furious state, where her eyeballs turn black and her markings start to glow through her fur. Fancy, isn't it? :D

Chloé once used to be a genie who had been tied to a lamp by a curse. That was at least until one day, where she crossed paths with a prince whom she granted three wishes. Little did the prince know that speaking out the third wish would free her from the lamp and allow her to roam freely, all while retaining her might. Chloé however was relatively modest, only demanding a relatively small section of the prince's kingdom for her own, which has since been titled Chloé's Domain. The anubian goddess has settled there ever since, spending her days around an idyllic oasis with a number of loyal subjects.

Every now and then, travelers enter her domain and often fall victim to her mischief. The common outcome is that they end up as one of her subjects themselves, as Chloé would often enchant them with one of her spells, at least if the usual methods aren't effective enough. Being an actual goddess, the anubian queen has a persistent interest in growing her following afterall!

If Chloé actually takes a liking in someone, she'll even try to win them over with conventional methods and occasionally even grant them wishes. Everything to make them stay a little longer...

Being once a wish-fulfilling genie, Chloé will be able to see right through Space Hero and see his deepest desires. Space Hero has a few plans on his own whatsoever, requiring Chloé's Ankh as a key item to open a certain door. He'll eventually agree to fight the powerful genie over it and will be granted several tries. Should he be able to put a scratch on Chloé, she'll be lending him the artifact. However, should he lose and run out of tries then he'll end up as yet another one of her many subjects.

I think that should sum up her lore, as well as give you an idea of how Encounter 3 will play out. Note that before I start working on the animation, I'll be doing another much shorter POV one that I'm actually hoping to finish until Christmas. I already want to get started on animating right in the upcoming week, so it's likely you'll still see a first playblast of this later this month!

Chloé herself still needs a few final touches, but I should be able to apply them in the upcoming days. I can't even put into words how enthusiastic I am to finally work with a model that doesn't have a million bugs, while also being quite fast to animate. Even in this 1.0 version, Chloé already has all features of Zoe's late model, including more complex things such as dynamic fur, which already works better than ever.

I also went the extra mile and made wet variants of her fur, making her pelt extremely clumpy and glossy. Something like this had actually barely been possible with Zoe's fur shaders, as they didn't actually have specular values and only a fake gloss effect that didn't factor in the actual light sources. I think the way I managed to fake it still made it look somewhat believable, but it's no comparison to Chloé's physically-based fur shader.

I want to use this moment again to thank everyone who's been involved in this, starting with Acidic, who did the base sculpt for the model that was later going to become Chloé! He did an incredibly fine job of giving her torso and head proper definition, also entirely modelling her hands and feet into something proper, while also sculpting her amazing teeth that I haven't touched ever since. He's also been responsible for making her bra and loincloth, while also taking care of the retopology and UV processes that I dread so much.

Secondly I want to thank Disregard for rigging her and keeping up with my requirements for this rig. He's still been ironing out bugs until this weekend to make this a highly functional rig that goes far beyond what my previous Zoe model could do. Thanks to him, Chloé is incredibly expressive and has extremely detailed controls!

Lastly, I want to thank you, my patrons for making it possible for all of us to invest all of this time into making such a polished model! I'm hoping that this will be the first step to a small roster of characters, which should make it possible to offer a bit more variety in future animations!

Lastly, here are 8K versions of the wallpapers, as well as a 4K version of Disregard's expression test!

8K Wallpapers/Expression Test: Link