Gator thing

I made a ton of progress on this shot while testing fluids for the egg laying thing! The character animation is like 99% done and I've finalized the jiggle and stuff. It was a tough one to get right and I used all my tricks to make it work! Corrective/helper lattices for body contact (around where their pelvises meet), keyframing physics settings to get the jiggle I want, constraining bones to the meat physics mesh and using that for added motion/wobble on the bepis...

Only Mitch has any jiggle physics stuff though, the gator babe doesn't move enough to really warrant physics (any jiggle on her I manually animated here)

I really wanted this to have some good, not janky animation because this might be my favorite shot of the whole thing (like... augggh pullout then stepping back then WS directed at her tummy... it's going to be good!) so I've put a lot care into it! It's a simple motion but what made this one so challenging was like, his weird pose he has to be in in the beginning.

And trying really really really hard to make the legs not have any weird popping from the IK (that's like when the leg is extended too long so the leg bone chain is fully straight and it will do a weird pop if the leg's target bone is moved closer so it starts to bend)

It was tough recording reference for this! The first time I did I didn't step high or weight-y enough so my first attempts were lacking. When I recorded more reference though I was able to nail down the timing and posing better and after a lot of polishing I got it to look pretty good.

I've attached a video with various WIPs of this shot together showing how it evolved from block out to finished character animation!

I also worked a lot on the jack hammer position (idk if that's what it's called? but this one) I thought it'd be cool if she started squirting and then got up and there was a nice bepis flop...

And also worked on the environment/compositing/lighting for the pullout shot! Still not finished. I made some water for the ocean in the background but when I was working it I somehow didn't save and the power went out for a bit... so I lost work. Didn't feel like redoing it at the time so I did more stuff on the character animation after that.

Oh also btw the towel pattern is this cute clip art gator from public domain images: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=249150

I used to go to that site all the time for textures back in the day but now it's got a lot of AI crap on it depending on what you're searching for (which I rather dislike) so if you're going to use stuff from there be careful.

So yeah sorry to make this post pretty much all about the pullout shot but I'm really happy with how it's coming along! I've attached the relevant videos below!