Hiro 2 Stuff (Patreon)

SO. Overview.

Hiro 2 is getting real close. I REALLY wanna have it public by the end of the month, but to do that I'd need to get it ready for you guys here on Patreon within a week. That's a really tall order.

When I lipsynch I add in small gestures and bounces, as well as any detail animation. All the core animation is done otherwise. All 5 scenes have a base audio file prepared for me to load in and sync to (though I usually wind up making tweaks anyway)

• Scene 01: Totally lipsynched and animated.
• Scene 02: 90% lipsynched. Need a few vocalizations still, and need to replace one shot.
• Scene 03: I think I don't have this timed yet, and no lipsynching done yet.
• Scene 04: Timed, no lipysnching yet. I want to adjust the shot of Izilith escaping to use the same vine trick I use in the sample below.
• Scene 05: Need a final retake, otherwise 70% lipsynched.

So, not a lot left! I'm trying hard to get it done as a someone's coming out to visit me later this month, and I don't wanna be working on this + don't wanna delay it further while she's here.

As a little WIP, this is from scene 02 (pre-lipsynch) where I redid the vine.

If you remember the old one, it was just a tentacle swiping at her and snatching her up. This one actually feels like a vine growing. Was super easy to do too! I'm really proud of this shot.

The thing with timing and audio, the audio is often SO much longer than you expect. I can easily extend frames, but still, when I'm expecting a scene to be 2000 frames and then it winds up actually being 4300 frames, that's just more lipsynching I have to do. Which I can do, lipsynching is a specialization of mine. And the bounce dynamic I have makes it easy to do long stills of dialog without feeling stiff. But still, just kinda get floored by the length.

ANYWAY. Strelok's starting the audio processing now. He's got the materials just for scene 01 since i got all that done. When I get all 5 scenes to him, I'll start working on post processing + the credits scene.

Oh, and music. I need to figure out music.

SO I guess I need to include a heads up about this now: I will be using supporter status for this month up until the 16th for making the Patreon credits page, for $5 supporters and up! (There's a chance I may extend this but for now, assume that the 16th is the deadline to make sure your pledge is in order if it's not yet.)

I will be using your name as Patreon reports it to me from the relationship manager, so your displayed name will be what's used. For $20+ patrons, I'll use your icon, so if you wanna update that, be sure to do so! If there's any complications or concerns (or like, say you want to be excluded for whatever reason) just message me and I'll add a note in the manager.

This time around I'm also gonna give $10 supporters their own section in the credits too, sorta like how a few friends / peers of mine do.

Thank you all for your patience and support with this project! I'm super pumped to see it come to completion!