Animated WIP (Patreon)

Intergalactic relationships sure are colorful

Another quick one I'm trying to do within 1-2 days just like the last one. After this I can get back to finishing up the monthly animation and after that, I might go back to making multiple smaller animations. I'm kinda been in that mood recently and it helps me to practice more.

ANIMATED WIP ATTACHED BELOW...

***TECH NOTES***

Funny thing about the setup for this one. I actually had two other sets of characters I was going to use before Star Wars. Initially I was going to use League of Legends characters and then after that, I was going to use overwatch. These both actually failed because I either couldn't get 4 characters to load at once or couldn't get them to not crash after loading them. I already knew 4 models would be a hassle so I was looking for simple models but even then 4 is hard to do on a system that isn't too good.

These models are great but a bit skinny and initially not as appealing in my opinion. So with shapekeys so I did some basic sculpting to make them "thicker". Although the artstyle does have them skinnier on purpse I find the easiest way to make models more attractive is to add that body mass. These models run so so well. Almost full 24 fps even with all 4 at once. I start to realize how big of a change working with 24 fps is at all times.

Keeping this simple but will also try to give the faces some nice expression as well and maybe take some more time or an extra day with this since it's looking pretty nice so far.