Animation Update And Lots to Talk About!
Added 2017-07-24 03:21:56 +0000 UTCHelloooo! Lots of news and such...
I just finished animating the camera movements, Naomi's eyes target and her eyelids.. As you may have read in the previous post I stumbled upon some new sorcery to allow me to automate the eyelids so they move along with the rotation of the eyes. Pretty slick and saved me hours.
In other news.... There was a video editor on sale this week on Steam. Vegas Movie Studio 14 Platinum. I picked it up because it was such a great bargain but I didn't expect it to bring much benefit to you all. Turns out it does. It's MPEG-4 output looks FAR better than what I could do before. So from now on the colours will pop more and the contrast will be more.... contrasty. If you saw that video tutorial I posted, that was compressed with the new video editor and it shows off the beautiful MPEG-4 quality in the beginning... You can see it here if you want: https://vid.me/ohWjC I've never achieved such rich blacks with MPEG-4 before. Note: The video is higher resolution than I can render these animations to... At least for now. Some day when I can afford to get Octane or something I can boost the resolution.. Some day. I need more memory first. ANYWAY...
And one last bit of news... I've thought of a brilliant idea of how I can get caught up with my lagging behind.. Because this animation is more than twice the length of a typical one-minute animation, I will be splitting it up into two parts. So this full animation will cover the paid posting of Naomi's 2nd animation and the one after it. Once the animation is done rendering, you will get one half or the other if you only supported one of them... Or if you supported both you will get the entire sequence conveniently edited into a single movie clip.
The reason this is such a great idea is because so many operations need to be re-done from scratch with each new animation scene... The motion capture, the retargeting of the motion capture data, motion capture clean-up, the hair simulation, and the setting up of various baking passes, and more things I am probably not thinking of right now... I can record motion capture for extra-long sequences and they can count for parts 1, 2 and even 3 or 4 in some cases. It will save oodles of time and I'll be caught up before you know it with me using Patreon every-other month.
So that's it for now... Thanks for your amazing support! More to come, stay tooned.
Comments
Yeah I mentioned that.... You'll get them all as one contiguous video.. You'll never know where the two parts were divided (Spoiler: Somewhere in the middle).
CGMan
2017-07-24 21:36:35 +0000 UTCNice teaser :D cutting them into a 2 part to catch up seems like a good idea but people who paid will get both parts in one clip or will we still get them in 2 different files? you probably mentioned this in the description and i just didn't see it but thought i ask just to make sure^^;
Zander
2017-07-24 21:04:23 +0000 UTCYes the tutorial is for a very limited audience.. But at least the intro is pleasing to the eye. :)
CGMan
2017-07-24 12:58:17 +0000 UTCThe turorial video is clearly not for people like me without any knowledge about Lightwave, but if the final goal is to get different parts to follow the same animation pattern easyly then it's great. Cutting new animations in half to provide content regularly is a good idea. The job will be done once, and you won't find yourself running behind your schedule every month :)
CJoe
2017-07-24 11:12:42 +0000 UTC
