March 2021 WIP Update (Patreon)

Hello loyal Patreons! 

It's time once again for us to look back at the last month and see what's been happening. I've been a little unwell this last month which has set me back a little, but even so we've made some significant gains. 

First, the bad news. I have to concede that my Symmetra model has been a failure. I've wound up altering her head so much that she doesn't look like Symmetra any more & it's even worse when the light hits her. Also her jaw bone is totally fucked & the inside of her mouth is a nightmare. But fear not, this was head-hack method #1 & it was always an experimental method to see if I could keep as little of her original face as possible to get more utility out of her face controls that come with her Daz body. Method #2 keeps as much of her original face as possible & should be much more effective. But I'm a little disheartened by the failure so I'm putting all my effort into the Mermaid joint right now & we'll test out method #2 on Mei once we know it works. Mei is already setup for the head transfer so much less work involved there, but I'm just a little sick of looking at polygons at the moment & I want to get the Mermaid finished.

Side project wise we got the Mercy x Symmetra video out finally. Took an extra week to render due to the series of annoying errors that kept ruining the render. That was an annoying week. But that's all done with now, & the next short animation is more than half way done already I'd say. It's going to be a short loop featuring 'with legs Ariel' playing with herself on the beach as a promotion for big feature. Be sure to check out the Saturday discord update tomorrow for a preview of that.

But most of my time has been focused on getting Aquatica Erotica finished.

Been getting really stuck in this month getting the final scenes completed & I'm very nearly done. All the BJ scenes are done. And I mean completely done, not I still have to do the hair & the light done. I'm past the cumshot now & as well she has reclaimed her bra. All that's left now is for her to flip him the bird and swim away. I really really hate animating cum & this load was no different, but I managed to keep it all relatively contained & I'm happy with the result. Overall, better than the previous ones. If you've been keeping up with the weekly discord then you've seen all the caps of these scenes. They look even better in motion, I'm very happy with how the end has turned out. I think the six month break to work on Edge of Tomorrow was worth it, you can see the point where i came back and suddenly all the animation is a lot tighter.

There is a short outro that occurs after she leaves with a little comedy but I've already done 95% of that already so we're closer than ever! Only have a very small portion of the beginning rendered though since the goddamn Overwatch render catastrophe ate up a lot of my render time & I did go back & change some lights but we're moving ahead now. I'm just terrified that my graphics card is going to die because there's pretty much nothing I can do if it does...

Eldar Narn is in another quiet spell while I try to power out the end of the Mermaid joint, but some small progress has been made. I've got three more pages done I think & most of the panels done for the forth but I've been giving most of my time over to animation this month so not much to report here. This chunk shouldn't be very long though as we take the attention away from Meredhel for a few pages so Myriil can do something & show a little character, she hasn't had much to do so far this chapter. but this wont take very long & then I'll put those pages out when we switch back to Meredhel for the end.

And that's about all I have to report. Managed to cover a fair amount of ground spite getting sick. I think it's not unrealistic to say I might have principle animation wrapped on the Mermaid joint by this time next month! Post will be a piece of cake because it's all BJ sounds and breathing so not much work needed there at all!

Take it easy my Dudes! Thank you for your time!