Lucy & Alima (Patreon)

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I finally finished this one.  It's not very long, but it came with its fair share of technical challenges.  I tried out some new cloth stuff, some new hair stuff, some new lighting stuff, and some character changes.

The main thing I wanted to do is see if I could construct a (mostly) full set and light it (mostly) naturally without costing too much time or fidelity.  In the end I got the hang of it, but it was still an expensive process on the rendering side.  It's a key part of larger scale products that demand entire scenes take place within a single set that characters interact with.  In that context, you unfortunately can't just throw an HDRI behind them and call it there.

There were plenty of things I had to let go with this animation as it was just taking too much time, but I'll settle for 90% now instead of 100% never.  The wrinkle maps on Lucy definitely need some tweaking.  That sort of thing is hard to preview without rendering.

In other news, I'm almost done animating the Harley & Ivy animation.  So far I haven't been severely affected by the pandemic.  Stay safe out there folks.