Your Phone - Playblast 2 (No lighting) (Patreon)

Here's a second playblast of this month's mini animation, which has Zoe confiscating your phone for the day! After the longest running full animation, this might become the longest running mini animation, as it's already over 20 seconds long and there's still a bit to animate. I'm getting a little worried about being able to properly squeeze this into a gif, since the final one might end up around 30 seconds, oh boy.

This will be using Zoe's room as an environment with roughly the same lighting setup as the previous grape play animation from a few years back! There's just something about rainy indoor scenes that feels incredibly cozy~!

Quick note that the crunch is still ongoing on my end, which is why I still haven't caught up with all my messages here. In parallel to this mini animation, I'm also working on both the script, and the environment for the Encounter sequel, while also converting Zoe's rig to work in the latest version of Maya, which includes having to redo her entire hair/fur systems from scratch. This is more of a long-term thing that I got very technical with in the recent posts, which I'll try to avoid from here on out. For now I want to highlight that the benefits of this conversion are a much more streamlined production schedule, significantly improved visuals, and support for modern formats such as VR, which has been a long-running goal that might finally become a reality with this. Note that it will still at least take until 2021 until I feel confident in making a full animation in the new software, until then there's still a lot of work to do that I'll try to do on the side next to animating!