Sensual Licks - Playblast (Patreon)

Oh wow, Patreon finally comes with a dark theme! Looks like the gods have listened. My eyes certainly are thankful! <3

Here's another playblast with one of the recently animated scenes! As announced in the last post, I didn't get quite as much animation done since I spent the first week of the month preparing the last sequence for rendering. It can now render while I'm asleep for maximum progress efficiency! :D

I managed to optimize the scene enough to render at a full native 4K. Getting all the wind dynamics right ate most of the time though, as it required some extra rigging on the tent for it to flap in the wind. There's both fur and particle simulation here as well, something I'm hoping to use more extensively in future animations.

Note that the licking sequence is still exposing some clipping here and there, but I'll make sure to have all of that fixed. I know I originally said that this would only be a 1 - 2 minute animation, but I'm crawling pretty close to the 2 minute mark already and there's still quite a bit of animation to be done, so... 2 - 3 minute animation it is. Ah well!

The rendering is roughly progressing at 30 frames per night, which comes out at one second. I'm thinking that late January/early February is a somewhat realistic date to aim at, especially with the runtime being a tad longer than originally planned. There are also a couple of Christmas shenanigans coming up for me, but I'll try my best to still post another update by the end of the year! I hope you all have a super neat Christmas until then and get to spent some time with your loved ones! <3