Weekly Update!! New animation Started! Commission update as well :) (Patreon)

Hello all you amazing people on here! :D

I'll start straight away about the Dwight and Huntress commission which is still in a very annoying position where I haven't received the second half of the payment yet. I've been in contact with the person a lot and they have said they are going to pay it but it doesn't look like it will happen by the end of the day :( If they do pay it before the end of the day I will upload it all on here immediately before the new month starts. It's an annoying situation but I can't risk uploading it on here before it's paid incase the person grabs it without paying for the full commission.

Anyway I've got a few things to show you with the new animation I've started! This animation is with Renato and The Skull Merchant (There was a message suggesting Renato which I can't see on here but I did get a email about the message so just to let you know I did see what you wrote :D). Now I wanted to do a bit more with this short animation compared to the other ones i've done so I've got the idea of having a little intro which will cut into the NSFW stuff. I've got the idea to do one position but I'm thinking about having a second one just not sure what that will be yet.

The concept i've got so far for the intro is there will a over the shoulder view of Skull Merchant on her PC and on the computer screen we shall see a video of drone footage showing Renato trying to hide. The camera goes to a close up of the Skull Merchants chest while keeping her mouth visible where we see her smirk and rip open her shirt which then will fade or hard cut to black which will then start the NSFW scene. For where the two characters start getting freaky I'm deciding between the workshop area or the upstairs area of the main building. I want to try and include one of her drones showing up and doing the scan thing as I think that might be a cool visual during the NSFW scene but I am also thinking of having a drone constantly present acting as a different camera which we would be able to see being streamed onto a bigger monitor.

This one took a lot of tinkering in the background to get working as the program I usually use to get the newer models from DBD was crashing a lot trying to export certain models so I went looking for a alternative. Adding the extra bones and vertex weighting the Skull Merchant's clothes also took a fair bit of time but it gives me the ability to animate her top opening up similar to what I've done in previous animations (I've got a short GIF above showing a quick example of it in motion). I did learn how to set up model body groups though which allows me to turn certain models visibility on and off which I have done for the Skull Merchant's mask and weapon which I plan to have visible when the NSFW stuff starts.

I've also got some behind the scene images to show you of what the environment looks like outside the camera angle you would see, it looks a bit odd but I usually only put extra objects in the shot if you would see them and if you don't I leave it empty. There is a bit of exception to trees as I sometimes use them in front of lights to get a really nice casting shadow of the tree onto the scene. There is a single image of the upstairs part of the building but that is pretty empty right now as I'm not sure if I will use it or not. Majority of this week was just getting the models and exporting them into SFM but I have also been trying to learn how to properly create eye rigs on the characters models I export into SFM but sadly once again I haven't had much luck with it :( Without a view target that is created from the eye rigs I have to rotate each eye individually which if I'm not careful either makes the eye pop out or it's a weird uncanny look where it doesn't look like the character is looking at what I want them to. I've also been trying to create a nicer material for characters eyes so they look glossy rather than bone dry sometimes which I did have quite a bit of success with but it's also making the eyes glow which sometimes it's not noticeable at all and other times it's looks so bizarre. I regret not recording some of the stuff during the week but I shall be sure to do some more when I start animating if you would all like to see more of that? :)

Really sorry again about not being able to upload the Dwight and Huntress animation but I hope you all understand why I can't just yet :( I hope everyone has had a great week though and wishing you all an even better weekend!! <3