Progress report for July 2021. (Patreon)

Hello folks. Since I finally have some support I decided that it would be useful to write at least once a month a report on my activities for the month. So you at least know what I was doing.

Progress report  for July 2021.

Animation learning Progress.------------

● Learned how to create animation motion script loop, right.
This skill allows me to create repetitive character movements animation, without tedious Ctrl+C this pose at this frame and Ctrl+V at this frame. But just by pressing one button on the frame I need, the character will moves into the pose I want by himself. And at the same time, I can make any changes to his pose or other parts I want, without any animation conflicts. It allows me to make repetitive movements, not repetitive, but "unique" and helps saves me time and improves the animation quality, also allows me to edit and change anything, at any stage of the animation.
I'm very proud of this one.

● Learned the physics simulation animation script.
Some parts of the animation, such a hair and so, are easier to give on responsibility to physics simulation script, than manually animating. It's doing a pretty good job, but it still needs more practice.

● Learned how to animate particle effects.
Some animation effects like, drops, splashes, liquids, steam and sweat effects, are much better and faster to do with particle effects. Of course, in some cases there is nothing better than frame by frame animation, but these effects come as extras to the quality.

● Learned building raster image character rig and animate.
This allows me to animate not only my work, but also the art of other artists, using the style of their art. But it still needs more experience.

● Learned how to separate the animation project on small anim parts.
As the anim program begins to lag and crash if the animation project is too long "more than 1500 frames." At the same time, any changes in character rig will be applied to all parts of the project.

● Learned to install the save script.
This script automatically creates a new backup of the project file every time I save. For some reason, if the program crash while saving It will delete your project file...
I should have installed this script a long time ago. Good thing I had a habit of creating backup files myself, so I didn't lose too much work.

● And lots of different small improvements in the understanding of how to build a character rig right and better understanding of vector logic. And a lot of understanding of what NOT to do (or even touch) in the anim program to make everything work stable.
In my personal feeling, I can say that I'm finally getting to the stage when I can finally just start making animations. Without each day encountering a new problem or stop because I don't know how to do things in the animation program. And spend hours or days to find out how to solve these problems. It feels like I've finally learned almost everything and it becomes easy to do animation.

Personal achieve.------------

Improved my potato-computer cooling system. Since he was very very unhappy doing all this rendering. I had to buy a separate power supply to install additional fans in it... ha-ha more FANS!

Personal Project "Fluttershy + Twilight" 20% complete.
Commission #1 Project "Rainbow Dash + Tempest Streamrider" 78% complete.
Commission #2 Project "Rainbow Dash + Solar Comet" 5% complete.
One extra anonymous commission is done. (But I can't say anything about it.)

A total about 95 hours were spent in the animation program in July.
1 minute and 45 seconds of animation was made. (But no all rendering yet.)
Considers that I have a real job, and I can give for animation only a free time, after I take a break from my work. So, at the moment it is not possible to give more than 1-3 hours a day to animations.But, hey, at least I don't have a personal life. =)

It was a productive month, Thank you all for choosing to support me. more people like you, and I'd quit my real job and do just that.
And Have fAn!