MORE UPDATES + NEXT PROJECTS (Patreon)

Since I'm moving to Maya, I kinda have to build all the assets before starting any animations!
Therefore, let me start with the least impressive update (but still very important!)

I rigged+skinned+textured the first tiny human! (whose Opal will have the pleasure to eat!)  =D

(It took me less than a week this time!)
I believe the character is detailed enough for his size, he already has some facial expressions, his limbs seem to move properly and create decent skin deformations (and this character will have more face shapes and texture variations in future animations so his clones don't all look the same!)

I've also done several other small improvements to Opal, (to keep it simple, mostly fine tuning skin deformations and adding more detail)

As you know, Maya is being a really big jump for me, ( I'm still learning a lot! and I had to skip a lot of the basics in order to get things done faster!  Character rigging and animation isn't exactly the first thing you're supposed to learn in Maya!) ^_^"
But I just can't make the mistake of starting my first large animation right away without trying something on a smaller scale first!

*** That's why I just started working on a small loop animation! ***
(Like the GIF animations I published before!)

It's supposed to be a GIF animation about 10 seconds long. Opal will be in her bedroom, eating tinies from a bowl ;) 

I usually like to keep this stuff all secret until it's completely ready! But you've been so incredibly patient already! So I guess I should at least show you some work in progress! So here are some screenshots:

(Not the final result yet!)

(I really don't want to make false promises but there's a very good chance that I'm getting this done in just a week! I'm getting used to Maya and I'm finally working on actually animating characters instead of building them!)

Like I said, I can't jump straight to a large project (although I will soon!) this small animation will serve as a bit of practice (I'll also run into some problems as always! but because this is a small project it wont be as much trouble to find a workaround and I'll be a bit more ready for my next project!)
The good thing about this is that you'll finally start seeing things getting done soon!

I'll also start working on the princess comic soon! (I really devoted all my time to this Maya project, but I'm finally getting past the most difficult part!)

I hope you like it! I'll have more updates soon! :)