Zoe Noms Ur phone - Mini Animation (Free Version) (Patreon)

Here's the new mini animation for October, ever so slightly late! I usually design these as 10 second loops, but with this one being about three times as long, I didn't quite manage to squeeze it into a gif without heavily sacrificing either the framerate or resolution. Since I'm releasing it as a proper video I also added sound as a small bonus. The Patreon version also has a slow motion version added to the end of the credits, as I thought it would be pretty neat to look at!

This animation is somewhat being used to sneakily test a couple of new things for the next large animation, which will be an Encounter sequel. This includes an improvement to Zoe's fur, which now has longer areas around her back, cheeks, collar, and shoulders that also clump accordingly. There's also super thin fur poking through her tank top, but that's only visible in close ups and hard to make out in this animation. Her fur is also fully dynamic now, which is only visible when she makes fast motions in this animation. For now I needed to test if this works properly, as I'm planning to have her fur affected by gusts of wind in the next big animation.

You might notice that Zoe looks a tad smoother than in all of the recent animations, which usually had her fur flicker quite a bit in various shots. The improved quality comes from using AI-based image upscaling software, which I used to upscale the images from 4K to 8K resolution. This took roughly 1 - 2 days, but the results were seriously impressive. The next Encounter animation will have a lot of high frequency detail like vegetation in its environment, so using a technique like this will almost be necessary to not end up with a flickery mess of an image. Seeing this work so well is giving me quite a bit of confidence!

1080p/30FPS: Link