EDIT: This is being posted publicly, as something is wrong with Patreon's new interface that will not let me post it to patrons. I will try and get in touch with Patreon about this, but this one will be a freebie. Enjoy!
Alright, more progress! And with actual animation this time! Click the link for almost-full quality.
2018-10-15 22:28:56 +0000 UTC
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I couldn't resist making best girl bigger, so I've gone ahead and made a bunch of changes to her model to make her work better for animating, since she was made with minimal rigging on her original model.
Biggest thing I changed over the last couple days was adding new bones to her armature and weighting them, especially on her face. On the original, she only has a couple moving parts: her upper...
2018-10-06 23:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostI've decided I'd like to try and focus on shorter animations. That doesn't mean DVa/Mercy is dead in the water. I just need to reassess my priorities here, because I really don't output enough content to be satisfied with myself, and I'm sure you're all as annoyed as I am with it. I'll continue with that project in bits and pieces as I see fit, but for now I'd like to focus on making more things s...
2018-10-02 08:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostFired-fired, not laid off. Knife in the back and all that good shit over a few days of leaving early, nothing serious. Easy to forget that corporate life is filled with people who are legitimately brainwashed, even if they otherwise have all the makings of a good, independent person. Oh well.
Anyway, that's irrelevant. There's a decent chance I'll have more free time, but I do need to aggressive...
2018-09-21 14:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostI am not good at managing my time and energy sometimes. It definitely affects my time spent on things. I really need to make a habit of switching types of projects and/or taking breaks for a bit now and then. That's kind of what I've been doing the last week or two, to kind of get myself in the right mindset of "slow and steady wins the race". You sprint all the time, and you spend a bunch of time...
2018-09-16 03:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs if by magic, approximately $1,473.83 USD vanished from RoboBro's pockets. He felt no dismay, however. Merely excitement at what was to come. Thoughts of new games, fast rendering, two monitors, and all sorts of wonders he had not yet thought of danced through his head. The only thing left for him to do was to wait for the parts to arrive. He could only pray that FedEx or UPS wouldn't shit down ...
2018-08-11 23:47:39 +0000 UTC View PostYep. Also waiting on Swell Reads, hearsay says I might get it next week. In the meantime, I might try and whip up a test animation or get that Marah thing done. Not a whole lot to say, but with any luck I can get the internet at my new place set up without issue. I did as much as I could preemptively, but if I disappear for a few days on Discord or something, y'all know what happened.
Anyway, I ...
2018-07-30 21:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt's done! I've been hard at work this weekend on it. The embedded previews here may be smaller resolution and hard to read, so here's the imgur album for the full-res version: https://imgur.com/a/duFAGE0
Main Plot:
Endings:
Based on where I'm going with this, I reckon I have somewhere between the rest of the page and a page and a half before I call it finished. Depends on how much I need to flesh out what happens.
I've also been tweaking this Marah inflation thing. Here's a pic where I've been trying to make her match her ...
2018-07-01 02:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostProgress has been slow lately and likely will continue to be so for the next month or two, because about a month ago, my roommates and I got a surprise "you're getting kicked out at the end of your lease with no option to renew" announcement. I'm frantically house-searching and setting up house showings, and work hasn't been particularly kind either. Needless to say, this means slow progress on fe...
2018-06-14 23:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanna get some practical stuff out there. Skip down a couple paragraphs if you just want the goods. Anyway, I'm gonna try and keep my attitude about making these Patreon posts a little more lax from now on. Trying to make these sound all nice and formal is a waste of my time, and it leaves me with a tendency to make promises that I shouldn't be making. That said, I've made progress...
2018-05-28 00:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I just got a couple quick, important things to share. The first is a mixed bag of good and bad with a silver lining. The second is by no means bad, but how good it is might depend on how similar your tastes are to mine.
The first bit is that I'm drastically reworking the DVa animation plot-wise. The setting and characters involved will not change. It's not ...
2018-05-13 23:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I made this during the week, like I mentioned in the test animation post. I'd like to color in her "big" version before I upload it to DA, but I figured I'd post this for fun.
The basic premise behind her is that her backpack device lets her rearrange her own DNA, then speed up the life cycle of the cells in her own body, causing her to physically change shape into a huge, bulky form like you se...
2018-04-29 19:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostI'll cut right to the point: I've decided to make it so that test animations become public after one month. I know a lot of you are here for those, and I get that a couple of you might not like this and feel ripped off or something.
Here's the thing, though: I was thinking about my Patreon and exposure, and I came the conclusion that having part of my unique content be perma-pay...
2018-04-22 16:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostFor now, I'm gonna skip on the "formal" updates and just post renders, unless I do something out of the ordinary tech-wise. I feel like my last one was a little forced, and it's not really fitting when I'm not doing anything too crazy beyond adding new content to the animation. Also, I'll probably go easy on the gifs from now on so as not to spoil too much, but I'll share this one with you since I...
2018-04-20 05:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostI accidentally uploaded the front view of Li-Ming at the wrong resolution earlier, since I had edited out the outro in Vegas and forgot to switch the resolution over from Inflated Economy's. The other perspectives are fine because I didn't run them through Vegas. Sorry about that! I've replaced the file in the full-length video post: 2018-04-15 19:07:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't feel like some of my current Youtube uploads warranted being put in a $5 Patron post, so I'm releasing the files to a few of them as test video uploads. This post includes Be the Moon, Luna Inflation Animation (the Source Film Maker test video), and Simple Lina Animation.
Only download the .blend files if you want to mess around with th...
2018-04-12 22:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Fixed front view Li-Ming video. Sorry about that, should be the right resolution now! It's moved to the end of the list, since Patreon doesn't let you re-order uploads.
Wanna download the videos I've already uploaded to Youtube? Well, here they are! This post includes Arcane Aphrodisiac (all three perspectives), A Horribly Inflated Economy, and
Waterfront
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This analysis of what I did since the last proper update post is relevant to previous content released in the DVa quickie updates, in case you didn't catch my other post today. The relevant information I'm posting here, however, is completely new and fresh since the last major update post I made, so don't...
2018-04-08 01:45:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys. Just figured I'd let you know what's up. Without getting too long-winded, this week at my job was exceptionally shitty. Perfect storm of absolute crap: my one and only co-worker who also works on the same tasks that I do quit without warning on Monday. On Friday, we also left early because the whole computer system went down and rendered us unable to work at all. Come Monday, she's gone,...
2018-04-07 18:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostNot a "full" update per se, but more than enough content to make up for it! Keep in mind that this part of the process is basically me making the whole animation, or a rough draft of it at least, which is why it's taking so long. These stills account for about halfway up through page 4 of the original storyboard.
I know that you have all probably seen the first few images before, but I've made s...
2018-03-31 23:43:19 +0000 UTC View PostOh no, somebody pissed off Naga! Good thing she's actually part pufferfish.
2018-03-28 21:03:59 +0000 UTC
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Just figured I'd post some quickie screenshots of what I've been working on. I posted them on the Discord servers I visit. I'm sorry if it's not quite as much as you may have hoped for, I've been a little busy with IRL stuff in the last couple days. But it's been about a week, so I figured I'd show off the couple of poses/shots I've made with the little bit of work I've gotten in. I'd like to crac...
2018-03-24 18:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs I mentioned with my latest progress post, here it is. None of this is final, but it's a good general guideline for where I want to go with the story. Excuse the shitty drawings and phone camera photos! Also, spoilers ahead!
gum title: Pneumatix
gum subtext: "Just try to pop one!"
video ga...
2018-03-18 05:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostAirport
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So last time, I had laid out three goals. Mercy import, voice groundwork and scripting, and placeholders for important objects in the scene. As you probably already know, voice stuff burned me out hardcore. That said, everything went swimmingly otherwise for the most part. I'll do a quick overview of what went d...
2018-03-18 05:02:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, just a quick update on the D.Va animation. I've basically got 95% of what I set out to do from the last major post done. Thing is, I'm burned out. I pushed myself too hard, and the voice stuff is really, really time-consuming and not fun. Enormous amounts of file-renaming, listening to a character's entire voice library several times, plotting them out in a way that vaguely matches the s...
2018-03-11 23:27:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another old test animation for you guys. This one's even older than the previous, not exactly in the first batch of animations, but not too far out from there either. It does have some minor animation issues, given that this was never intended to be uploaded anywhere when I created it. You can even see one of them in the screenshot.
There was this one thing I did a lot when I was newer to...
2018-03-07 15:04:15 +0000 UTC View PostFlooded City
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...No actual flooding here, just dumb in-jokes.
Anyway, let's get started, shall we? Today, I'm gonna lay out the initial game plan. It might help a little bit if I provide you a little bit of context without spoiling too much:
2018-03-02 01:04:18 +0000 UTC
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