Just as large as an action figure (Rough Playblast) (Patreon)

Here's a new playblast, right from the first person perspective outside of the glass! Don't mind that weird strand hanging from Zoe's thumb, will have this removed later! (:

This clip should illustrate that with this animation I'm moving from implementing small voice clips, to full voice acting throughout the entire animation. I've been planning on doing something like this for a while, but have often shied back from it due to the lack of experience with animating lips. Having learned a lot from the previous animations though, I feel that I'm finally up for the task, even if animating these sections feels painfully slow to the massive amount of keyframes that have to be used. Note that lip movement is completely hand animated and takes quite a lot of tweaking and revising until everything feels right. The payoff feels rather satisfying though, with Zoe appearing more alive than ever in this. Here's a slow motion sequence from another angle to show that both lips and tongue are animated to form the necessary vowels and consonants (First person model removed for clarity).

There's quite a lot of monologue to animate, but it will all contribute to the teasing, of which there's going to be quite a bit later on! The plans I have for this animation are quite elaborate, so here's hoping I can pull it off in a reasonable time frame. Should it end up taking any longer than the usual time then I'll probably freeze payments for an additional month or so, as this time I'd prefer not scrapping any scenes from the animation, something that sadly happened in almost all of the recent works due to time constraints.