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Preview Renders of Talia's First Animation!
Hello everyone! I consider Talia's first animation to be "next generation." It is the first animation where I had doubled my computer's memory so I was able to use more and higher resolution textures (Note her skin bumpiness). Also this animation is voice acted and it was recorded with new higher quality recording equipment. There are other improvements under the hood involving a new software plug-in.There are only a couple of days left to get your pledge in if you want to get th...
TOOTH AND NAIL!
Wow. Just... Wow. I've never seen my cloth system put up this much of a fight. It was refusing to cooperate at every possible turn, and with fierce determination. It really, REALLY did not want to get simmed according to the script. But... I finally got it. It took a lot longer than I wanted it to, and I am fully drained.I have a couple more things to attend to.. The materials of the stage, final lighting. Finalizing the material on her troublesome T-shirt. Then I am ready to render. Thanks ...
Happy Holidays!
Hey everyone. Hope you all have a great time. Talia's shirt is simming now. It's going very slowly. Fortunately her shirt is only on for the first third of the animation. It will probably take a few days to finish.Meanwhile, here is a little test I did of shrink-wrapping skin with Storm. It should be obvious how this could allow for easy muscle growth along with other benefits. More testing is required.
Talia's Hair is Done!
And it only took all day!(grumble grumble Storm will do this faster and better grumble grumble)
Getting There!
Talia is done. I might want to try to finesse some goings-on in her armpit area but everything is now in-place. What remains is her hair and clothing (before her top is ripped off).This preview is a viewpoint not seen in the final animation, from behind. Notice how the lats are pushed away by her arms? This is a limitation of my current software. When Storm is feature-complete I should be able to have both masses press against each-other. I'm super excited about the possibilities Storm will ...
Talia Milestone!
I've just finished animating her hands and fingers for the whole sequence; with one exception... Where they interact with her biceps. That's because I haven't make her biceps flex-able yet. So that's the next step. My intention is to push the envelope in bicep peak altitude!
Talia's Powerful Pecs Finished
Breasts, Arms, Lats/Traps not done yet. But I'm getting there!!
Talia Update!
I've made various morph shapes for Talia's chest so she can bounce her pecs and flex them from various poses. And I've just finished animating all of her pectoral animation. Maybe I over-did it with the bouncing but somehow I don't think you will mind. :DAll I have to do now is sculpt the alternate flexed version of her chest and I'm done with her pecs.
Talia Progress!
Hello!Here's what has progressed on Talia:I've animated the scene's camera. Then I animated her eyeballs. Then her eyelids. Then her eyebrows. Her whole head is now full animated (and I am very pleased with the results).Then I animated her breathing, including her fancy diaphragm tricks. Then I created an alternate sculpt of her abs so they can flex and rigged it up. Then I animated her ab flexes. Then I combined everything so her head, torso (not including her huge back) and legs ar...
Liquid Assets
I did a test to see how well my new "Storm" simulator could do liquids interacting with animated models. The answer is; really quite well!Anyone want me to get Talia wet on her next animation? :)
Talia's Mouth Final Model
Here's the mouth animation transferred to the final model. :)EDIT: I've just finished animating her eyeballs. To finish her entire head I need to now animate her eyelids and eyebrows/forehead.
Talia Progress Report
Howdy!I've been cleaning up / re-animating Talia's head and neck animation to more closely match the voice acting. Adding little head bobs to accent certain words. I've completed the first 4500 frames. So roughly 1600 frames remain to be finished up. After that I can transfer the mouth animation to the final Talia model.EDIT: Head & Neck animation done!
Progress!
Hope everyone in the US had a yummy Thanksgiving. JonTron had a funny video on Thanksgiving.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2dXQDNZxgYI'm 5/6th complete with lip-sync! Wanted to get it all done today but I'm pooped. It shall surely be complete early tomorrow.EDIT: See that loud spike in the audio waveform? I just finished that part. It was the funnest part to animate. :DEDIT 2: Lip sync animation is complete! Whoo hoo!EDIT 3: Camera animated!
Getting there!
As you can see in the above image I am roughly 2/3rd complete with animating Talia's lip sync. Have a good Thanksgiving for those of you in the US who celebrate that.
Just For Fun
Would anyone like to try and guess what she is saying here, based solely on the mouth animation? If you guess right I'll put a gold star on your forehead*.*If we meet and I have a supply of gold stars in my pocket at the time
Progressing On Lip Sync
Howdy!Here's a sneak peek at Talia's voice along with some mouth animation. I'm roughly 1/4 finished animating the lip synch as I type this. She's got a cool voice, right??
Talia Update
I'm done editing down the audio and I have re-done the transfer of her leg animation to her final model. More to come!
Splicing
Hey all... I am 2/3rds done editing the raw audio recording into the animation's vocal track. We sat in her car for 30 minutes last night, reading lines over and over to try and get the best read possible. She's not a professional actor so it took a while. This of course means editing all of this down into a 3.x minute clip is slow going. More to come.
Talia's Skin And More!
I've just finished re-mastering Talia's skin textures. Almost every part of her face skin was redone to go along with completing her body.This render looks fantastic, it is using "image-based lighting." Unfortunately this option is really slow. I estimate the animation will need over two months of rendering if I go this way. This of course is not practical. :/ I'll try to find a happy medium between quality and speed when it's time to render. If my Patreon continues to gr...
Talia News!
Hello!I am in the middle of painting skin textures for Talia's body. I thought it would be fun to incorporate the "skin size" weightmap I make for her skin pores to determine the size of her skin textures. Working well so far.ANYWAY... I got responses from FOUR more ladies interested in giving Talia her voice! Wow! I've asked them all to send me a recording so I can hear what they sound like. One of them has sent me her voice and yowzers! That's a sexy voice! I think I may ha...
Talia Updates
Hi,I've got her skin pores texture made for her entire body. The replacement audio recorder arrived and recording sounds much, much better. There is a tiny amount of noise in the uploaded test because I recorded this next to my computer (fan noise). I've got one response from the ad I posted looking for a voice actor, hopefully she will work out well. Or maybe more will answer.Now for some bad news. Some of Talia's vertex maps were obliterated and I have no idea why. Her lips mask wa...
Nailed It
Hello all.. I couldn't get much work done yesterday due to a long journey that needed to be made. I'm almost done making the skin-size weightmap for her entire body; this is related to the skin pores texture in my previous posts. In the meantime, here's a fun update on her fingernails. Same was done to her toenails.On the audio front, my voice actor is still M.I.A.. I sent her an email telling her that if she doesn't respond soon I'll have to find someone else. I returned the...
Pretty Pleased With This!
Still only on the face so far.
Skin Pores Update
Turns out I wasn't exporting the normal map correctly from Substance Painter. Now I've got it right. Time to see about making the texture look more organic / less uniform.
First Skin Pores Test Render
Hey all...Here I am taking more advantage of the extra memory. I'm making skin pore textures. So far they are only on her face. Those who are interested in the tech details read on.. If not, skip to the next paragraph. I created a "skin size" weight map.. This essentially defines where the skin pores are bigger (like on her cheeks), and where they are smaller (nose). There are 8 or so procedural skin cell height map textures at different sizes that are revealed based on the skin size...
Unknown Recording Date
Hello,I've just finished animating all instances of Talia's hands interacting with her legs.Talia's voice actor told me she has only two days off a week and we can possibly record on Tuesday (later today). I sent her an email yesterday asking, "Are we go for tomorrow?" but she hasn't replied. :/ If we cannot meet today then Wednesday is her only other day off. I very much hope we can make this happen. I'm running out of things I can animate without having her audio!Al...
She's Got Legs....
....and they're fully animated for the entire sequence.Now that her legs are final I need to adjust all of her hand animations that interact with the legs.
Ready to record!
My stuff arrived today and I tested it out. I bought a small digital voice recorder, a power supply for my lav mic, a cable, and a wind muff. I can now record remotely. Attached is my first recording; after post-processing. It sounds very nice! I probably sound like I have a cold still.I'm now waiting for the talent to be ready to come record (while I continue to finish up the animation).
Talia Animation Update News
Hello everyone! First of all thank you to everyone who wished me well while I was tightly packed with mucous. I'm feeling a ton better now. Sorry for the disgusting imagery in my opening sentence.Anyway I have just edited out all of the pauses in the animation that I mentioned in an earlier post. I can now report the complete animation will be almost 3.4 minutes long with both parts put together; not including intros and outros.I just ordered a power supply for my new mic but I think it may ...
Retros (Redux)
I *THINK* I've gotten to everyone who had a retro request by now. If you don't see what you were expecting, check your spam folder, and if you don't see anything send me a message and remind me of our arrangement.Note if your request is Talia I'm still finishing her up! :)Thank you everyone for your patience with me!!!!
