Hikari New Years 2025 (Progress Update)

Hi all,

I just wanted to do a little update with how the Hikari New Years 2025 body inflation sequence is going.

Originally I had planned it to be a relativly small piece with a simple before and after body inflation. However, as I worked on it I wanted to add to it and make the sequence a little longer. I also wanted to try to improve the quality of some inflation morphs and fix any distortion and errors that sometime appear on the character and thier clothing when posing the character that has rather extreme morphs (like with full body inflation morphs). As a result it is taking more time than I had hoped.

So I thought while you all are waiting patiently for me to faff around on this project to try and get it to a point where I am happy with it and can post it. I wanted to show you some of the things I have been working on improving/fixing.

The first image shows a thigh squish morph that I had to custom make in Blender. It might seem like a subtle change but I think it adds something to the overall effect of the character being inflated and having tight clothing providing some resistance to the expansion.

The second image shows two fixes I had to address.

The first error was that as I had posed the character, the pose created some unwanted distortion to the characters mesh (mainly around the butt area). I think this was due to the body inflation morph being affected negativly by the pose, compressing the butt and upper thigh, which didn't look quite right to me. So I had to export the character in the pose from DAZ Studio to Blender to create a morph fix, to bring back the roundness on the inflated character that I was trying to achieve.

The second error was that the clothing had distorder in the crotch area with a classic DAZ Studio error that can happen to clothing that the character is wearing, when posing the character. So I exported the character with the clothing still in the pose from DAZ and imported it into Blender to make a morph fix by smoothing out the unwanted creases.

I hope this was at least somewhat interesting to you all while I finish this project and not just me rambling on for too long. lol

I have been thinking about putting togther some notes and tips from my experiences with using DAZ Studio, Blender and Photoshop over the years. This would probably help me too as sometimes I do forget something in the process and have to backtrack to fix it. For example, the process of importing/exporting DAZ characters into Blender to make all the body inflation morphs that I use. Let me know in the comments section if this is something you would be interested in.

I also wanted to share an image that shows another morph I did to make the characters gens more puffy and inflated as she blows up like a balloon (And by 'gens' I mean the characters pussy, just to be clear lol). As it is NSFW I will be posting it for Tier 2 and 3 supporters.

I really do appreciate how patient you all are with me, I know I'm not the fastest artist when it comes to pushing out content. So thank you all for your support! ❤️❤️❤️