Preview - LOYALTY (Ellie & Jesse Short) 03 (Patreon)

Happy holidays everyone.

A quick update on the state of things. While real life issues still have a very noticeable impact on productivity decent progress was made, especially during November and December. Really wish this inconsistency would finally end but ultimately, it's one of those things that's outside of our control and we just have to push through it. Hopefully next year will be less of a stress generator somehow.

Besides the Loyalty animation progress there was a few dozen hours invested into various experiments with new toys available. Namely directable liquids physics that rely on Blender's geometry nodes instead of full-on simulations (many hours went into simulations too but netted no good enough results), procedural skin deformations to save up time on manual shape sculpting and coaching other band members on advanced Blender shenanigans to help with Drills work later down the line.

Also, we've built up a decent mocap animations catalog for future animations. The service can get expensive if done whenever so we've decided to optimize and do it all in one go. Smart financing and all that. Thank you for your support, it makes this possible.

Some Loyalty previews:

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Animating fingers is so much fun! /s

Keep in mind there's no jiggles, deformations and liquids in this preview. These are to be baked later

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Voice lines mashup first pass. Angry face could use some more work lol.

Thank you all for your patience and support!

REDGIFS LINKS:
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/evergreenlankygrub
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/shylooseheifer

CATBOX LINKS:
https://files.catbox.moe/0krfzi.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/m1medd.mp4