Stomach Animation test (Patreon)

Oh boy, haven't seen this in a while! Here's a new WIP of the stomach environment that's going to be used on this new animation! I first wanted to remodel Zoe's stomach for this one, but figured I'm already a little behind in terms of schedule, which is why I kept the old environment. Despite of that there are still some new things here! First would be the water, which now uses a more complex multi-layered shader that makes use of true refractions (rather than just blurring whatever is underneath it). The lighting is redone as well, after rewatching the previous films I found the previous one to be lacking in contrast a bit, which is why I went for a more artistic look here. The orange tint is supposed to suggest the heat a little better, further accented by the haze. The SSS shader for the flesh was given some attention as well, making it a little more translucent and softer looking.

In terms of animation process I just finished the entire throat scene, which came out at 10 seconds of length, making me almost hit the one minute mark with this. The biggest difficulty with these scenes is the size of the prey, making all the slick muscles stretch and properly positioning the camera, as this character almost fills up the entire environment. There's still a few scenes to animate, so I hope people bare with me just a little longer!