WIP: New video...with new models!!!

 Hello! :D I hope everyone is doing well.

I finally started working on a new video with Dawntrail upgraded characters!!

Does that mean I figured out a way to make the rigs work? Well...uh...not really. I take no credit for this, and so I can't really make a tutorial or anything yet because I don't know how exactly to get it to work myself. I used a hack of the old mektools rig that was shared (I don't know by whom, I'm sorry) on the mektools discord.

...but I'm not good at all with rigs and scaling things in place, so it...works, but I'm constantly going back and forth scaling bones and trying to fix stuff on the go. I didn't really understand how to do it myself, so instead I just focused on making it work on my own characters for now.

Like, sometimes I open up the file and THIS is happening to her legs...

I'm hoping I will be able to fix this while I animate (...or animate around it to hide the broken parts). I don't want to stop to just try solving the technical stuff because I've tried it before, and I got bored and unmotivated. I think I do need to have an actual tangible animation goal to finish, after all. But I hope by the end of it I understand better how things work and am able to explain what is happening. Or if not, maybe by the end of it we will get an official mektools release that will make things easier for everyone! I will have to remake all of these rigs when it comes out, anyway, because it will most definitely work better when it's ready.

There's also a lot of other new stuff to get used to. The characters look different, so posing and getting the expressions right also feels different. And now I'm FINALLY using Blender 4.2, which has updated lightning and render settings that I have to learn! Looks much better but there's some learning to do.

The many new mouth controllers are both wonderful and overwhelming. It's easy to get the shape a bit off model and make him look weird...I can't have that! He must look handsome at all times.

The new video is going to be 5 or 6 shots long and about 30 seconds. I've got a layout more or less ready without the backgrounds and with the last shot missing. I'm very happy with the idea of this one, so hopefully I can translate it well in video! It would be a fast video to finish if not for all of the new things I have to adapt, so I can't say for sure anymore how long it's going to take.

I can't wait to finish this video!!! I'm very excited about this one.

Thank you for your support!