Progress Update #97 (Patreon)

The Pekora face rig that I made for the short worked out pretty well! And I thought it would be a waste to just use it in a six second clip. So I decided to turn the short into a regular animation, with a proper aspect ratio and all (it's very frustrating to work in portrait mode :p). I'm also changing some things. For example, the Nousagi that I showed in the previous update is going to be replaced by another character named Jill.

In case you're unfamiliar, Jill is Pekora's pet bush baby (it's not a monkey), and people seem very fascinated by it, but I'm not sure if anybody has animated Jill yet, this might be the first time. You can see the face rig down below, I still need to finish the mouth shapes, and tweak everything a little bit, but so far I think it turned out even better than Pekora's. I also made a very simple body rig, it's been a while since I've made one of those. It reminded me of how much I enjoy the rigging process, it's very satisfying to play around with the controls once everything is done!

The little isometric background at the top of this post is still unfinished, but it's from the opening scene, and it depicts Pekora's hostile takeover of Cover corp.. Once it's done there's going to be a lot of little details, characters and animations happening in the background as the camera slowly zooms in. Everyday I keep thinking of new things to add to it, so I need to constrain myself before it gets out of hand. There's still a lot of other BGs to do, but thankfully those are not as complicated as this one. Here's a close up look: