8/9/19: Nyuri's Debut (Patreon)

8/9/19: Nyuri's Debut

Ok! The scenes that were completely unfinished before now have their rough animation all layed out!

I had to animate that tree getting all pushed up on by Yuri. Each branch. At least it came out looking fantastic and that's all that matters!

So this next phase is first person growth shots. It's such a cool thing to add! Since I nailed how the stutter works, finally, we also get that in this shot and it's so juicy with how it came out! Don't worry, this will be backed up with a 3rd person shot near Nyatsuki's pov.

Nyatsuki is checking Nyuri's size.

"Not big enough!"

Nyatsuki is finally happy with her war beast!

So this shot is another reference! I'll link what to in a moment!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXp-56vn9wY&list=LL7bNdqOdZFer_QXdG-LdIdA&index=29&t=0s

Sooooooo gooood

So this shot turned out fantastic! I replaced all the trees with ones similar to the ones at the school. I also planted bushes on the low quality green bush block things to hide that.
I also put some windows down for the low quality windows of the buildings. Something tells me I need to learn more texturing to truly upgrade this shot from low quality mmd textures.

Now this shot is ok, but I feel we lose the same sense of surprise as Nyuri when Nyatsuki yells,"STOP!" I gotta figure out a new camera placement for this part.

"Crush that"

Nyuri: WHAT!? That's somebody's car!

Nyuri: We could get sued for crushing their car!
Nyatsuki: Hm....

Nyatsuki: Crush that.

Nyuri: NO!
I wanted to make sure the screen shaked here too to really emphasize the power of her voice!

Now here is where phase 2 of Nyuri will begin once I animate past this.
Nyatsuki plans world domination and Nyuri getting stopped by something simple isn't gonna work. So her next steps?
Make Nyuri far bigger and unplug that limiter that's stopping her from enjoying this.

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8/5/19: Last Week

Ok, I know there was no snippet last week, but it was because I was practicing the art style and learning all the intricate process involved.

So here's some pics of the small progress so far.

Have a small animation of Nyatsuki shaking her head after a large scene of her outgrowing a city. Since that scene is separate and huge, I'll do that later.

With a plan in mind on who should be giant, she puts you on her shoulder for a nice ride to watch.

So this whole scene is at least planned out, but it's nowhere near done enough to look good in a snippet. Not even any camerawork yet. I've just been moving the camera to take these pics. But at least it kinda looks good. Damn that ground is bright. This section will look far better by the end of this week.

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7/29/19: The Natsuki Part

People have kept telling me to add more story to my videos. So I wanted to have some build up for DDLC before we got to the true action. But that doesn't mean that it should be boring just to inject story into a video!

So as Natsuki grabs the Dictaphone, my mind is like, "Do a trick" so she spins the thing on her finger before catching it. I could've just cut to it already facing forward, but noooooo.

When it comes to using the device, I actually have shape keys of each button working. Completely pointless since we won't be using half the buttons, but it was a fun side-test. Hell, maybe somebody else can use the device after i'm done with it.

Natsuki gets her first test wish to make her a cat girl.

I was thinking a green flashing light was a good way to show that the wish worked. It's supposed to be sparkly and stuff, but I did the ominous Hal3000 look to it.

Natsuki has a nice moment to check out her ears. Coincidentally, depending on how I word her wish, Yuri gets cat ears in the background too.

Ok, I wanted to also briefly show how acrobatic Natsuki has become with the catgirl wish by having her jumpscared as if a cucumber snuck up on her.
But it's just the MC guy. And boy you don't want to see his animation in 3rd person as he swiggity swooshes his way to Natsuki.
Anways, he's already seen the device and asks Natsuki about, but she tries to hide it.

Trying to be all innocent and that. She thinks herself the decision on if she should let the MC in on the device's powers.

Some quick thinking and she realizes that she needs to hide the MC without evidence. So she shrinks him to 1 inch tall. Perfect for... hiding in places.

Eh, you can see the shadows i'm trying to fix all the time here.

Ok, so this part is gonna be super familiar. After the MC is done shrinking, Natsuki does the whole body rub thing in the same way Samus does, but with her shoe.
Shortly afterwards, she wonders what it's like to be bigger herself.

It's a little bit, so I might make it more intense just for this part, then reset sizes immediately afterwards to what was initially intended. Actually, none of this was intended, but whatever!

UGH! I'm still adjusting those LOW quality indirect lights. Looks good when you don't notice it.

Well there it is. 1:20s created on Friday. I was a madman that day.

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7/19/19: Set Ups

Ok, so next week will be incredibly strong for DDLC. Right now, this picture is a pretty good summary of what's there. Literally nothing past this point and Yuri isn't even in yet. (she's getting cat ears too) So with a little more time, the first snippet and juicy info pack will be... juicy, I guess.  Another thing to notice is that I fixed my depth of blur! Apparently, I need post process to be set on medium rather than low. But the setting didn't want to change in Neko vid. I wonder why?

Edit: Another thing is that some stuff doesn't like to be blurred and wants to stay on top! (Like Ryuko in the background completely unblurred) I have zero ideas why! Yay!

Then we have Marin. She's going to be in the environment building stage for awhile as I do some MASSIVE landscapes for her. She will be going Mega after all.

One thing i'm really thinking about is using CityEngine for both of these videos. Gotta learn it first!

In any case, a lot of this week was finding the right assets and applying cat ears.