August Update! (Patreon)

As you might have noticed, I didn't accept payments again this month, and I won't be sending out any rewards. My apologies as I should have communicated this earileir; I kept meaning to but failing to find the time. This update is to explain what I have been up to, and to show some glimpses of some of the progress I've been making.

I did end up going back to Australia at the start of the month to attend a family funeral; that was obviously sad, but went as well as it could in the end; it was good catching up with family like that, since we don't get together much anymore. But it did set me back a week at my current workplace just as we were hitting Beta. I'm the only animator there, so there was no one to pick up the slack while I was away, and contracts to publishers being what they are, I had to make up all of that time and more in order to hit the milestone. There were lots of 14 hour days and I've worked every weekend, so the time just wasn't there for me to work on patreon again this month. But that's over now, the beta build was sent at the end of last week ^^.

I'll be switching payments back on for this month, as we have at least one, perhaps two weeks off soon and I'll be able to make some progress at last ^^. But there has been some progress worth reporting on, if not accepting moneys!

DRAGON GROWTH: I spent a lot of time (mostly in June when I had some time) re-topologising and remodeling Andre in order for Thirteeenth to give him some awesome textures and normal maps. He is currently on vacation, but he did send me some progress stuff which shows some amazing anatomy upgrades as well. Zbrush is magic ^^. I can't wait to see how he develops further, or show you guys... but here is a sneak peek of what he has done! The lighter mesh is what I gave him before work; the darker is his additional anatomy work. Both are a lot better than what he has been in the animation!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q51w11kn3la367n/csg_dragon_wip06_by_thirteeenth-dbhis8v.gif?dl=0

RUB FOR MORE WISHES:

Aside fromt he Andre upgrade, which will also be in rubs, I have started purchasing background assets! I've found some great stuff on the Unreall marketplace; these are primarily made for games but I can export them out into maya and turn them into animations. The difficulty with these items though is that in doing so, all the material information is completley lost, so it's going to take me a while to hook them back up again. I have made some progress on this but there is a LOT still to go. Here is a link to some of the stuff I bought; I ended up buying a lot more than this though ^^:

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/old-alchemist

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/castle-fortress

MISC:

I've also commissioned an artist who goes by the name of neocoiote on FA has been modelling a dragon character for me, and he is now up to the texturing phase! To see what he has made so far, check out his submission:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24337724/

I look forward to making him even bigger in a future animation ^^.

I'll have much more regarding these and other things in the next rewards cycle.

I'll also be getting back to people this week who have messaged me through the various internet outlets; again I apologise, I haven't been ignoring people, I just haven't had any time to interact outside of little windows I took to shitpost on twitter.