April Update - It's about horses (Patreon)

What's up lads, long time no seen but I haven't been wasting time. There's a lot I've been working on, and of course I've prepared some of it for you. So let's dive straight into it - this update will be about ponies. Mostly.

HWM Ponies

Not gonna lie, COVID hit us all pretty hard. I myself, despite being a remote from-home worker all my time, had trouble coping with stress. Even now I write this post not completely sober.

Thanks to your support, I have been able to create many wonderful models that have been used in many wonderful artworks and animations. But as my skill increased I couldn't help but look back and see how lacking my older models now are. There is lots of stuff that's just outdated, and yes I know that I should move on and make new things, but when you work on a complex model line, keeping everything in shape matters a lot. 

And so I revisited the models I pretty much started my career with. Ponies have always been a cornerstone of my modeling experience, since they allowed so much to be built upon one body base. Last year I released my version that was quite well received, although it had some restrictions and only one way to remove them.

 You all seen Loona, which is my first hardware morph model. She has the same setup of facial flexes as the ponies you use, but the trick is facial combinations. For every pair of flexes there's a hidden one that auto corrects them, allowing for expressions that weren't possible before. 

There's at least 137 corrective shapes in each one of these heads (in comparison, Loona has like 102), and I'm still working to make them perfect, but you can already try these out. There's public testing going on in the ReVAmped server, and anyone can try the feral version of these. However, I have prepared a batch of anthros with this setup applied, and they will be available to patrons until the public release. But that's not all.

 Raricow and Rarity Overhaul 

Of course I wouldn't post an update without new models.

Since I'm working on highly customizable ponies, why not deliver some highly customized highly wanted assets? I know you're in the moo'd for this one.

The idea of ReVAmped model line was always in its diversity, in things that would fit any character you make. Cow pattern that would fit any OC was in my plans, and no better time to put it to use than now.

For the update, I remade Rarity's hair with better detail, better weightpainting and better materials, which will make it behave better in SFM. It is already available with HWM Rarity model in the ReVAmped server. However, Raricow has a few experimental things aside of cow pattern.

One of them is switchable hooves. Just like in anthros, feral ponies are now able to switch their leg styles, with all of them using the same texture pattern. This means you can have several choices and not stop at one when you make your OC:

And the other is the unique cow/kirin body that has its tail anchor point on the tip of... tail. Which will allow you to use your regular tail with this body type without having to fit it in Blender - it will automatically dock itself.

There are still a few things I'll have to address before I post sourcefiles, but Raricow both feral and anthro is now available to patrons.

Tyrahnee Public Release

Given the COVID situation, I thought more people playing around with alien queen would be a good idea.
She will be available at SFMLab at this link as soon as she passes moderation:  https://sfmlab.com/project/29662/ 

Also, I understand that for the past few month I've been working on a huge update with changes that are not immediately apparent. I am going to send link to HWM pony anthros to everyone who pledged since February.

In May, updates are going to be a lot more frequent. Finally the community is starting to make use of the tools I've created, porting more characters to the ReVAmped model line. There is also a huge Blender community effort going on that will finally bring the model line to their its true potential, with IK rig, drivers and top grade materials. If you wanna know more, join our humble abode here:  https://discord.gg/Qejgq7F

Meanwhile I'll proceed to uploading content. Cheers.