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Facial Animation

On Friday's Patrons-only stream, my viewers got to watch me create a facial rig for my Taurin character =)  I decided to throw together this quick video of him making a few facial expressions using that rig, as well as test out his eye and mouth movement.  I'll be expanding on the rigging in the future, adding more expressions as necessary, possibly even in preparation for dialogue. &nbs...

Patreon exclusive stream on 5/10/18

I wanted to make an early announcement that this week's Patreon-exclusive stream will be on Thursday this week instead of Friday as usual. It'll be back to Friday next week!  Hope to see you there on the 10th!

Changing Room Background

I had a chance on tonight's Patreon-only stream to work on the environment for my upcoming animation "Hit the Showers" ( I was running into some issues with rigging the characters, so I thought I'd change gears a bit).

The setting of the animation is going to be the changing room of a swimming pool at a tropical resort.  I got the basic layout, materials, and lighting mostly how I want it, ...

Progress!

Tonight's Patreon-exclusive stream went for 4 hours, and was quite productive =)  I resolved some issues I was having with the high resolution normals map, modeled the eyes and textured them in Photoshop, got the bulk of my skinning work done, rigged the eyes with a look-at target, and started the facial morphs (just the blink so far).

Overall, I think he's coming along quite well, and what...

Taurin Mapped And Textured

This is the same low polygon model I shared in a previous post.  Since then, I completed his UV mapping and used a free utility called Xnormal to transfer the color and surface detail from the high resolution Zbrush sculpt.  

The color data transferred perfectly, but there were some issues with the normal map that was generated.  I'm not too worried about that though, since the fu...

TaurinV4 Low Poly Model

So, I'm moving along nicely with my Taurin character rework.  In a previous post, I showed off the high resolution Zbrush sculpt.  And while a 13.7 million polygon mesh is great for detail, it's not so friendly for actual animation work, so I needed a low polygon version with a good surface flow to work with.  This version (which has a total of about 8500 quads) was created by build...

Taurin Rework Zbrush Sculpt

So, after realizing my current Taurin 3D model badly needed a rework before the next animation, I spent this week doing just that.  It started off as a vaguely Taurin-shaped blob in 3DS Max that I imported into Zbrush to sculpt.  By yesterday evening, the sculpting was finished and I started on coloring.

During tonight's Patreon-exclusive stream, I finished the coloring, touched up the...

Taurin v4 re-work Work in Progress

Okay. This is a very long one, but it is an almost complete video of creating the base model in 3DS Max and sculpting details in zBrush. I decided to re-do Taurin after looking him over, and decided that there were a lot of problems with the previous version that are being fixed in this one.

I'll continue work on this model for tomorrow's Patron stream!

Taurin and the Water Tentacles Trailer

Found this old gem on the old hard drive. This was released before the Water Tentacles animation was released.

Unfortunately, the deadline was missed. WOOPS!

Anyway, this hasn't seen the light of day in years, so it's a bit of a relic!

Since this was released to the public before, all patrons can see this :)

Taurin Character Sheet

So, I was looking over my existing 3D model for Taurin, and decided he needed a rework.  I wasn't completely happy with his face, and the geometry was plagued with triangles and stretched faces.

I drew this template to work from, and I'll probably be working on him as the subject of my next Patreon-only live stream.  I'll model the base version in 3DS Max, then pop him over to Zbrush f...

Animation Anouncement!

Hello everybody! Patrons and those of you considering becoming patrons!

I would like to officially announce the title of my next animation.

Hit the Showers

This will be a shorter-format, M/M Piece featuring my red fox character, Taurin, and my mate's fennec fox character, Kish.

I am working on a feature animation, similar length to A fox In the Stable. That'...

Animation Livestream - 6pm Eastern

Patron Exclusive Livestream set to start soon!

We'll be getting started in 3 hours, so if you're planning on coming, make sure you check back here for the link 5 minutes before Go-Time!

See you there!

Hit The Showers - Storyboard

My first storyboard ever. Woohoo!  Seriously, all my animations up to this point have have just been based on a vague idea of what I wanted to do, but they would have been better had I not skipped this step.  Actually that's not 100% true.  Fox in the Stable was based on a sequential art piece I did as oil paintings back in 2002, which was, for all intents and purposes, the storyboa...

A Fox In the Stable set Fly-through

This simple fly-through of the set of A Fox in the Stable was done during last night's introductory Patreon livestream.

Thank you once again to everyone who showed up, and those of you out there who support these animations! there'll be much more to come!

-- Taurin and Kish

Scalie Butt - Color

Soooo I found this sitting on the old drive.

PSDs Attached.

Taurin and Kish - Full Color

This piece was done as a present for Kish's birthday back in 2012!

Several PSDs attached.

Scalie Butt! - Line Art

This was done back in 2011.

PSD is Attached.

Yiffing Machine - Preview Render

Hiya!

This is a single camera preview render of The Yiffing Machine From way back when!

Side note, Kish got the video embeds working, YAY!

Test Render 2 (animation in progress)

Here's another rendering from the animation scene I'm currently working on.  I especially love this camera angle because it shows off the caustic lighting effects in the water as well as the evening lighting with the sun in the distance.  Again, the scene may change quite a bit before the animation is done, but this is the work in progress so far x3

Enjoy!

-Taurin Fox

Test Render (animation in progress)

Hi patrons!  This rendering is a work in progress for my current animation project.  It still has quite a ways to go, and the scene may change a lot before its done, but here's what I have so far.  I won't talk too much about the project now, as I intend to make it the subject of my first Patreon-only live stream session coming up this Wednesday.  So, if you're interested, be s...

Horseplay Preview Render

Quick little animated clip of the subject of Horseplay

A Fox in the Stable Preview Renders

Here's a bunch of clips from the making of A Fox in the Stable

Goal Achieved!!!

Thank you so much, everyone!!!

We've hit our goal for 20 Patrons and that means starting this Wednesday, March 28th at 6:00 PM Eastern Time, there will be weekly animation streams, and all of my Patrons are invited!!! If you aren't a patron already and want to join, make a pledge of any level so you can see the invite.

The invitation link will be posted one hour prior to t...