My Animation Report~ (1st August 2024)

Going to be making these little reports every month or so detailing what I am working on! This is just for a few curious folks wondering what I'm currently working on and what I have been doing~

Currently it is 1st August 1:30am as I am writing this and I am going to be typing about what I have been doing after 7th of July~ During early July I decided that my model needed a big revamp because during animations and posing I felt my model was very limited and there were glaring issues that made certain poses look bad and animations being stiff~ I also noticed some of the belly expansion stuff just didnt have much shape to them and it felt very limited during certain videos.

So after this I decided to make new shape keys for inflations, butt expansions, body expansions etc just for better body shapes and better body changing shapes for animation videos! Currently I have 300+ shapekeys for the body alone and the breasts and others have over 100~

The next big thing i was working on during July was to completely rework the rig but sadly a massive roadblock was hit during the development of this and I was planning to make a better belly rig so that it can get smooshed upon environments and stuff to give it shape and I also wanted it to smoosh inwards when an object or hand presses into it. Sadly... a massive big sadly when I finished the rig it just didnt work in certain aspects and I had to completely throw out the belly rig stuff and I'll have to try to work on it againin the future from scratch :( There has been improvement on the rest of the rig and a lot of ease of access for animations and posing so I hope the other rig stuff makes it more effecient for when I'm working on my projects~

The shapekey stuff and rig still needs to be worked on and it is currently on pause as I have decided to work on the next animation! It is roughly around the end of July and this animation was originally supposed to be a mini small animation to test out the new rig and body but as I am working on the lighting and camera work I am very impressed on how it looks so far and I am so interested in doing the sound work for it to because air balloon creaking sounds~ :3 I am not sure if this one would be a full length video but probably not because it doesnt have the snappy camera work and such a big video would have but I do still plan to have audio for this one~

Now that it is August I plan on finishing this upcoming video which has 1 minute of it completed then after that I think I might put out a mini animation or plan on changing the way I do full length videos and rather than it being 10 mins long I might make it around 2-4 mins long but make it more compact and filled with content~ I've noticed with the way I'm going this year it just wont be possible for me to put out huge 10 minute long videos without working on it for at least a year and a lot of sacrifice to make it~ I enjoyed making shorter videos especially the 2 min ones with sound in them in the past so I'm tempted to bring those types of vids back. The mini vids are okay but they are supposed to be just little practice vids or very tiny small concept ideas I thought where cool but as of late I think its starting to bleed into the full length videos and its causing me to delay the bigger projects as I'm putting more focus into the mini's rather than putting out shorter lengthed big projects. The mini's I feel they just aren't complete and are missing something so I plan to change the way I make stuff hope to see improvements in the near future~

Thats my random report and hope to get that vid out for you guys soon! =D

I also hope that I'm able to make a video around 2+ mins long with sound in it~ This will be my goal from today and onwards~