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Major Announcement! Potentially Very Good News.

Hello everyone!  One of you, I will not mention the name, has either sent me, or let me borrow a 3080 graphics card.  It may or may not be the exact model shown above.

If whomever s...

CGM - Post #074 (May 2023)

This is an advance post for a future release.  Send me a private message if you have any questions.  Thank you so very much for your support!  It makes these fun animations possible!...

Miku First Signs of Life And Other Interesting Things

Hello!  I've completed the displacement maps for Miku's body*, and then I modeled the low poly cage mesh.  And as you can see from the attached short video clip I have her arm bending wit...

Miku Progress

Howdy!  Just dropping in to show you what's going on with Miku.  I completed a preliminary sculpt, and then I retopologized this sculpt into the optimized mesh you see here.  I am st...

Render Comp And Other Stuff

Hello!  I just put together all of the layers of the Nadia animation currently rendering for a mock-up composite.  You can see the blurred subsurface scattering and the increased resoluti...

SSS Blur Strategy End Result

Here is a look at frame 1200, along with how she looked before the SSS data was blurred using my newly patented technique.  How much faster did this render?  Well...  About a minute?...

Sub Surface Scattering Experiment Part 2

Apparently blurring the SSS pass is a fairly common practice.  I hadn't heard about it until yesterday.  See attached video for more details.

I did some experiments with render optimization

I got pretty close to really speeding up the rendering, but it's not...quite there..  If you have any opinions about this I'd love to hear them below.

Hair Complete

This is really cool..  Best hair system I've made.  It took a little longer because I needed to make some modifications.  What I am doing is adding a couple of "forces."  They a...

CGM - Post #073 (Mar 2023)

This is an advance post for a future release.  Send me a private message if you have any questions.  Thank you so very much for your support!  It makes these fun animations possible!...

Miku's Hair Ready for Simming

Whew!  This was as tedious as it looks.  I'll do a test sim tomorrow.

Later tonight I'll be posting a Paid Creation.  If you want to skip this one, you should remove your pledg...

Preliminary Hair Test

I haven't styled it yet.  By the way I have been calling her Miku... So that will likely be her name.

Updated Turntable

Skin textures, various geometry adjustments, eyelashes.  She still needs a specular map and eyebrows, etc.

EDIT: She now has eyebrows..  Image render attac...

Turntable

Placeholder textures.

Revisiting the New Girl's Head

For the past 6 months or so I've been doing a lot of research on the differences between male and female skeletal differences.  You could say I have been obsessing over it.  I think my gi...

How About This?

Check out the attached image.  The faster render has Radiosity (bounced light) turned off for the hair.  The reason why there is no motion blur is because I only rendered a single test im...

I'm going to try something....

Feel free to vote on the poll but I want to try something that may make it a moot issue..  We shall see.  But first I need to vacuum the house!

Big Decision

Hey everyone...  I have a somewhat educated estimate of how long this will take to render based on how long it has taken thusfar.  Look at the attached video clip.  The medium shot t...

Render Settings

I spent a lot of time experimenting with how much quality I can squeeze out of this without taking a ridiculous amount of time.  At the resolution of 1068x600, I am getting the look of the ima...

Render Started and Stopped

I started the rendering before I went to sleep as the things I need to fix are in the middle of the animation.  But I think I am going to stop it and make some adjustments.  The denoiser ...

Almost

Wish I had a better report for you today.  I need just a bit more time.  I added a glittery effect to her blouse which cannot be fully appreciated until it is seen in motion.  I text...

Not Quite Yet

Sorry it's not quite ready for render just yet.  I made a nice looking floor tile texture.  The actual texture is attached if you want to use it in your own projects.

I also created...

So Close...

Hey all...  I got a lot of details resolved today.  Just a few more to go.. Easy stuff.

Today I re-did some physics on some elements, re-animated some elements that get thrown, and ...

Nadia Dress Rehearsal

Getting so close :D

Coming Along Nicely...

I haven't brought in her eyebrows or eyelashes yet.  That is why she looks surprised.

I also had to re-animate her fingers for this shot.. Hopefully that is all done now.

There is ...

Blouse Simmed

I am pleased to announce Nadia's blouse is simmed.  It is not yet textured, so it looks like pink plastic at the moment.  And I will fix her nipples poking through.

So there are a f...

"She Wears Short Shorts"

That's what my girlfriend said when I showed her this image..  It's from an old commercial. :D

Anyway, I've finished modeling, texturing and simulating her shorts.  I added those st...

Milestones!

Howdy.  I've just finished animating Nadia's toes for the entire animation.  This finalizes all of Nadia's body animation; barring any unexpected issues that may arise before rendering be...

CGM - Post #072 (Jan 2023)

This is an advance post for a future release.  Send me a private message if you have any questions.  Thank you so very much for your support!  It makes these fun animations possible!...

Patreon Email is Down at the moment

Patreon's email service seems to be down...  I have some notifications from Patreon in my personal email, so I was able to read what messages you sent to me.. in some cases I replied directly ...