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I'm torn, guys...

By the way it's looking like another 12 hours remain on the render.

So I've been thinking.  This shrink-wrapped skin technique.  I think it's been both a success and a failure.  It's ...

Animation Render Progress

So...  The animation is done rendering.  I fixed the hair problem before I rendered the hair.. And that's good.  But the problem is the hair was bad when I rendered Naomi's pass.  ...

Render Progress (Oy)

So...  I just finished the first render pass... The slowest one.  Naomi's body.

Then I started the hair pass.  And this is when I noticed something wrong.  It seems when I simmed...

Animation Progress

Rendering has begun!  Yayyy!

Animation Progress!

Great news, the skin simming is all done and the pieces are all put together.  I could start rendering now but there are about 20 or so frames that need manual adjustments... Cleaning up some gli...

Animation Progress!

Two more body parts skinned.  Two more remain!!

Release #43 - Maria's 2nd animation Part 2

This will be renamed in the future.  Thank you for supporting me as I make these animations!!!

Animation Progress

One more body part skinned.  Four left! :D

Animation Progress (and news)

Howdy!  I now have six bodyparts complete as far as skin goes.  I think I have five left..  And hopefully I got the hardest ones done already.

Also note I will be posting a paid creat...

Animation Progress Report!

Hey everybody...

Been a long time.  Well I've been having a hair-pulling time here.  In the previous animation the shrink-wrapping process involved lots of manual adjusting of the skin to ...

Animation Progress Report

I am pleased to announce her muscle flexing animation is done.. Time to put her skin on!

Animation Progress Report

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the lack of updates.  Just letting you know that Naomi's muscles are now moving with her skeleton and it looks fab.  I just need to animate her flexes, shrink-wrap ...

Animation Progress Report!

I've "activated" Naomi's muscles...  That is they are now in the scene following her skeleton.  It's pretty bad ass.  There were a couple of "holes" appearing when joints rotated that I...

Animation Update And Lots to Talk About!

Helloooo!  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 ne...

Another fun little breakthrough!

Using the principles I covered in the video tutorial I shared in my last post, I was able to automate the animation of Naomi's eyelids..  Way cool!  That just shaved a bunch of hours off of ...

New trick up my sleeve

I discovered a new rigging trick..  Honestly the difference between the final output will be almost negligible, but it will simplify the rigging process a teeny bit and give more accurate baking ...

Animation Progress Report

Just finished animating her fingers.  I thought I could do both hands in one day but the animation is so bloody long..  Once the muscles are in place and flexes animated I will have to alter...

Animation Progress Report!

Lip-synch animation is COMPLETE!  Whoo-hah!

Animation Progress Report!

Lip-sync animation underway!  I'm nearly one-quarter of the way done..  Whoo hoo!

Animation Progress!

Hair is all simmed!  Here's Naomi looking like an airhead.  Don't tell her I said that.

Animation Update!

Holy Toledo!  I just finished animation on her hands (not her fingers, but that's easy).  The hands in this animation were especially complex because she is holding on to things and letting ...

Animation Progress!

I'm making really cool stuff here..  I'd love to show you bits of it but I don't want to spoil anything.  Here's a checklist of what's left:

Transfer mocap data to body and clean-up: DONE<...

My fellow Americans...

Happy 4th of July!

Hope you have a great day off!  I'm not taking the day off though.. Muahahah!  I'm making awesome progress!

Animation Progress Report

That was annoying.  It seems that somehow the animation got out of synch with the audio.  Making the audio 97.1% of it's original length fixed the problem.  Time-stretching the audio in...

Retro Requests

I just sent out retro requests for the latest donations (Thank you!).

If you had an arrangement with me and I didn't get your goods to you please send me a message!

Milestone Reached

Hey all!  I have just finished cleaning up the motion capture data for Naomi's torso.  Even though this animation is nearly 5000 frames long, I did this faster than last time thanks to some ...

Release #42 - Maria's 2nd animation Part 1

Thank you for your support with my animations!  I am getting the current animation done much faster than the last one!  Should get caught up soon!  Thanks again!

Got it working!

This is SOOO crazy!  Turns out the importing of motion capture does not work correctly unless auto-key is turned on (facepalm).  Since that is the case, the tool should turn that on before i...

Naomi 2 Progress Report

Hey all,

I have the sound all edited down and then recorded the motion capture synched to it.  All looks great so far.

But I am having trouble successfully exporting this data to my 3D so...

Naomi 2 Read For MoCap.

Welp...  It's looking like this will be one of the longer animations I've made.  Roughly 2.4 minutes.  I'm hoping the mistakes I learned from making Naomi 1 will help me get this next o...