34_HoushouMarine-mssnry + Schedule Update (Patreon)

Animation #34

"Ahhn~oy~"

[Schedule]
Current Character Queue
#34 Houshou Marine [ETA April 25]
#35 Sunaookami Shiroko [ETA May 4]
#36 Nilou [ETA ~May 12 to May 14]
#37 Raiden Shogun [ETA ~May 21 to May 23]
#38 Tokino Sora [ETA ~May 30 to June 2]

Here's our current character queue for the month of May.

[Discord]
If you haven't, our Discord server is the easiest way to communicate with us and send feedback, and we have a channel dedicated to dropping updates and behind-the-scenes stuff when I am able to share them. Discord is free, and you just have to connect your Patreon account with your Discord account (via your Patreon settings) to be automatically invited to the Discord server.

Regarding public invite: We're still working on the public side of the server but it'd be a while. I'm waiting for the hell-weeks (finals) to be over to get the time to sort out everything Discord-related (setting up auto-mod/bots, writing rules, organizing the roles/channels...).

[Worklog]

Great news, if you haven't been following our Twitter or our Discord, we've recently been able to acquire new hardware that significantly improve stability and performance on our CharaStudio.

Using the new hardware, we were able to use more lights and heavier plugins (like better DOF). This also meant we are able to up our Time scale to lessen physics oddities.

While writing this, I still cannot tell if it's enough to have more characters on screen but it's a good start.

For this release, I've done some reading for improvements and saw a suggestion over on the Koikatsu Discord about skin detail. I applied this and it's visible on both the face and body character materials.

Granted, I don't really focus the camera on close-ups... I still like the results and I think I will keep this as long as it makes sense for the scene and character.

For the hair though, lol, I'll continue to look out for ways to improve our characters' hair. We can't exactly modify this like with Blender, but like all things CharaStudio - we'll find workarounds.

Anyway, I've entered the hell-weeks and I can't wait for all of this school stuff to be over. Just a few more weeks. Good luck.

See ya guys next release o/