Pixel Mystery: Round 4 - Battle of the Moms (Pixiv Fanbox)

A little early for this(since it won't go up until the 15th), but I'm rolling this into a bit of a ramble. This upcoming poll is gonna be the first "themed" poll, wherein the characters are not randomly selected, but are selected based on a theme of some kind. This won't be a frequent thing, since I don't have a TON of ideas for themes(but I do have a few), but it'll pop up from time-to-time. This time it's "moms". Genuine moms, not just what get classified as "milfs" when they aren't actually mothers(Scarlet, for example). I had to pick some unique choices(at least unique for my usual repitoire) to fill it out. I mainly just didn't want to use Ifalna and Miyoshino, since I've already done stuff with them. Regardless, I have a feeling it will mainly between two of these, but we shall see.

As for my ramble, just kinda been procrastinating and not feeling like animating the past few days. Partially due to a lack of sleep and really bad allergies leaving me with some wonderful headaches, and partially just after the animation I talked about last time, I've just been feeling very lukewarm with everything I've made. Often happens. I'll get my groove back, but I'm just taking it slow. I actually already have the basic animation of Yuna and Zafina done, just haven't felt like finishing and extending it. I'll get around to it.

That said, I've been messing around with some things. Notably knocking Halloween ideas about in my head. I ended up updating the "witch Lulu" I used in 2020 - it's a bit more Lulu while keeping the witch theme I went with.

I mainly just got rid of the two main complications with her outfit - the belts(so many belts) and the sleeves. The fur thing can also be annoying with some major clipping, but I think solved that with some manual weighting. Kinda covered it up with actual particle fur, which kind of stands out and makes it so clipping is less noticeable lol. Not sure if I'll actually commit to something with Lulu, but like I've mentioned in one of my previous rambles, when I don't feel like animating I often rig up characters or the like. This time I haven't created any OCs, but I did make an "anime-character-but-not" like my Shuten-Douji.

Low effort, but it's alright I guess. Doesn't really fit the Halloween spirit, though, so it'll probably just sit there on my hard drive forever(or, at least, my backup hard drive). But yeah, I tend to do this sort of thing when I'm really not itching to animate.

Also, Ayane's costume 1 is what I'm gonna go with for my Ayane set - it's currently ahead by 18 points, so I'm gonna call it there. A wide enough margin to be considered comfortable.