Update 23: Next! (Patreon)

A hearty thank you to all my existing and new supporters of recent months!

This is just going to be a bit of a wordy update, I really don't have anything worth showing to you guys at the moment, I've just literally finished up and gotten Ashe's segment out the door so the dust is still settling on that one so to speak.

As most of you are aware, the next big project in line is Sombra's time in the edging lab, I've planned out the strokes of what's going to happen to her, there's just a couple threads that need cleaning up before I finalise the script and move into making it.

As briefly mentioned, I've got a mini project lined up to do between the two, something similar to the Gwen piece, just to show a little more of the workings at Cirimani and another slice of AIMEE's day to day.  

Although that might balloon into something bigger altogether once I get the details fleshed out a bit more, as usual, it starts with a fun little idea and then starts evolving from there, so it might end up being a good deal longer, depending on what I want to show in it and how it ends up shaping up.

Most important to say is there will be some weeks before the next piece of content, I really did pull out all of the stops to get Ashe's piece done in time for the end of the month, so I usually take a bit of time to decompress after working that hard. 

I plan to use the time to do some learning, one area that I'm not consistently happy with is simulation, fluids, hair, jiggly bits, they've never looked as good as I feel I could make them, so this is something I've been meaning to put some learning time into for a while now, but have always put it off in aid of getting the next project done.

Perfecting those details that you all have grown to admire in my works is going to involve cracking the unwieldy beast that is Houdini (top end simulation software used by hollywood) it is incredible and also complex, so is going to need some heavy time sank into learning it's ins and outs. 

That all said, I would at least like to get something out this month so my soft target is to get that mini-slice of AIMEE piece done this month. 

Most likely featuring Futa Chun-Li

EP5

Yeah, this whole thing, so, remember when I said I was simply going to re-render it and be done with it?

I lied.

Well, I didn't lie, so much as didn't anticipate things shaping up the way they were going to.

For a while now I've been wanting someone to make me a custom sculpt basemesh of my own, something uncompromising in it's design, a lot of the models that exist and that I've been using, thanks largely to a wonderful community around this, are, to put it bluntly, very simply done, that's for a good reason at the end of the day, the amount of work that goes into custom sculpts is quite massive.

A lot of them are based on the same body mesh, they have wildly inconsistent rigging standards, and I find I loose a lot of time during productions adding and tweaking them to the standard of kit I need to work at the pace I do. 

So having my own, custom rigged and set up model that I could use not only as a character in the mainline series (the basis of the original design) but also as a base mesh for further projects, has long been a goal for me. 

Originally I'd planned to learn it the hard but arguably cheaper way and sculpt and create the mesh myself, but that's a whole another can of worms that, to be honest, at this stage, I'm not really interested in opening.

I think I have to respect that directing, writing and animation are the things I'm good at, and lean on professionals in the field to handle the model creation, which is exactly what I ended up doing.

And also something that, largely thanks to the support of my subscribers, I can do now.

An opportunity landed in my lap to hire a promising artist to make the basemesh for me, and that being made is now something I want to wait on, because it's made in the likeness of one of the key characters from the mainline series, and I don't want to introduce and then immediately change her for the follow up episodes.

But, that's taking some time to be made and perfected and will need more time for  rigging and whatnot, then the pieces of EP5 featuring the model will need to be re-done, and another pass of polish, blah blah etc, it's gonna be a while yet is the long and short of that one.

I know that it's been a lot of back and fourth on that one, but the storyline is really important to me, it's something I want to make sure gets done right. 

TLDR:

AIMEE Vs Futa Chun-li (or other) hopefully this month, then onto Sombra in the edging lab most likely next, then next 'big' project is Kiriko being inseminated, Orogenix style, more updates as they come.

Thanks for reading!