Sunday progress report (Patreon)

Here it is, the first look at the new animation, not sure what I'll title it yet but there is going to be a lot of fun had by the Yeen and the Fox :D

This week I've been up to a few things, started blocking out the animation. This served double duty as a "rig test" because the Fox and Yeen revisions are new it means a lot of back and forth between laying out the animation, seeing something that's not quite right and going and fixing it. Normally this is simply a bit of clean up on weight painting or alterations to the groom however I had a little something crop up that's the bane of all 3D artists, a UV map error (in a noticeable place). Having to redo a UV map means having to redo the entire rigging process. Because of this the Yeen you see here is a different one than I had at 2am last night as I'd somehow managed to have a UV map oopsie get through the full rebuild process without being noticed. The map was fixed and another rebuild happened, Thankfully I was able to reuse 99% of things so that only caused me to stay up a few more hours and the majority of today getting the setup copied over. 

Parts of this week have also been going back and forth with the raccoon between sculpting and basic body rigging, as seen previous noticing and fixing errors early is far preferable to finding them at the end. The executive producers have voted and decided to keep me doing raccoon rigging as the side activity this week.

3D is a tedious and time consuming process (esp when something goes wrong that requires starting a huge chunk over) but I think the end results are worth it ^_^