Parasaur solo animation finished (Patreon)

I finished up the sound yesterday but today found some rendering problem with the squirt fluid. Fixed that! (had to re-render a few frames to blend between two alembics that were part of different branches of that fluid bake)

So remember in the last (or the previous before last?) post I mentioned re-baking some fluids, this is where it fades from the old version of the fluids to the new version. I was thinking I'd just mask out the parts I need and only render frames around that but I ended up simulating the fluids and rendering them all the way to the end... The sims just ended up to different to do some clever masking around it.

This kind of gives a better idea of the problem:

First, the fluid on the machine is different... which is really annoying because I thought it would end up about the same (similar enough to mask around it anyway) but because it's a simulation you never know how it'll go unless *everything in the sim* is *exactly* the same... so it ended up a lot different. Second, the fluid from the hole is so drastically different there's just no masking around around that without it being more work than it would be to simulate the fluid to the end of the animation and re-render it. Third, somehow, the string of fluid on his butt is different. I think in the previous bake something messed up with the obstacle/inflow meshes relating to the toy so like... the results were very different this time.

But finally, it's all baked, rendered in 1080p, the screen effects are there, the sound is in there... I think it turned out pretty good! As always it's not perfect... For example, if I would have known the reflection of the empty room would be so visible on the butt I would have tried to fill out the stuff we don't see on camera but by the time I noticed I had already rendered a bunch of the landscape version and I changed it I'd have to re-render it all and some of these frames take like, 30-45 minutes to render (the fluid heavy frames especially, the c*m-like material is demanding to render >_>)

Thanks so much for putting up with this taking forever... I can't express my thanks enough for everyone's support! Really, thank you so much for sticking with me for so long. I've attached the landscape and the portrait versions of the animation below.

Soon I'll be releasing the two dragons mating animation publicly so if you're a frozen pizza patron, want your name in the special thanks and haven't messaged me about that yet, please send me a message and let me know what name you'd like me to use!