Extended Playblasts (Not mobile friendly) (Patreon)

Oh boy, if Patreon ever decreases the files size limits of gifs, then it will probably be my fault! 

Finally, a look at some of the playblasts of the first part of the new animation with lighting! I've decided to go a little further with these and include a few more graphical effects such as fur to give a better impression of the eventual final look. Of course these only use moderate settings and are somewhat simplified since these test sequences need to render in a timely manner. Note that the trees, as well as the entire surrounding landscape won't be in these as I'm excluding them from the WIP project file to keep it at a moderate space and prevent saving from taking forever. They'll of course be included in the final render! 

In terms of progress I'd say this introduction sequence makes out about 1/4 - 1/3 of the animation, which I guess shows how much of an undertaking this one is once again. With the scope of this animation being this wide, I'm even considering releasing a mini animation somewhere in between it to buffer the waiting time a bit. It probably won't be possible to remove any scenes from this one during production as in some of the previous films due to the POV nature of it.

I might turn these extended playblasts into a habit whenever I reach certain points within a lengthy animation, given people enjoy these. These are all fairly polished with various complicated deformations already being fully animated, which you'll notice if you pay attention to how Zoe's chest deforms against her arms, or how she pinches her tummy between her thumb and index finger. Of course this isn’t the final render polish and there’s still issues such as Zoe’s hair clipping through her head, as well as her eyes looking a little dead with partially missing specular highlights. There also might be a few more changes to lighting to illuminate her mouth a little better, but that’s something I won’t touch too much before the final polish. For the rest of the month I’ll be setting up the first person rig, along with its animation, meaning there probably won’t be any other playblasts this month. Here’s hoping that this rather elaborate preview makes up for it though!

Thanks so much for everyone’s incredible support this year, I’ll do my absolute best to keep these animations coming and try to further improve with animating these. Hope you’ll all have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year! <3