Progress Stuff (Patreon)

Hi everyone.  I hope you are all having a good holiday season.

Nadia:

Nadia's foreground element, the main render pass is all done.  I mentioned earlier I would make a fast-rendering background sphere map thing so I can get this to you quicker.  That is still happening, but the last chunk of the animation has Nadia directly interacting with the background.  I don't want to spoil too much, but the last 1000 frames or so...  If I rendered that is a sphere map it would look really odd.  So I am rendering that as a normal render for the last chunk of the animation, then I will do the sphere map thing for the rest.... And then later will update you with a fully rendered version.

So this background render pass of the last ~1000 frames is about 35% complete at the moment.  I wish it was 50% or more but it is what it is. :/

Miku:

Miku is getting the mocap cleaned up with a lot of hand-animation to finalize her movement.  Attached is a clip of the very start of the animation.  You can see the original mocap data in the blue skeleton.  I am hand-animating her head movements to more closely match her dialog.  Her footfalls are re-animated by hand as the motion capture area is quite small and so the raw animation data is basically her walking in-place.

Sorry I've been so quiet for a while.  I wanted to get a somewhat good report for you.  I'll try to do better at this.  I have a lot of messages here I need to follow up on.  I'll have more for you soon.  Take care.