Kobold egg laying thing again (and some other misc things)

I was thinking of a back-up plan in case the glamor hole animation might take too long (I'm not sure how long it might take to get the voice stuff finalized, between mine and the VA) so I picked up the egg laying animation from awhile ago but kind of wanted to expand on it a bit, like she gets all 3 eggs in there!

So I started blocking out the whole thing, it's still very rough (the first half is in the attachment, the second half where she lays them isn't done enough to show yet).

I kind of didn't want this being longer than 2500 frames or so (about 104 seconds) but I was getting really turned on by it so... dang it, it's going to be longer than I really would like, but I also think it'll be pretty hot. The nice thing is a lot of the original animation I've been able to re-time and move around while expanding things!

The first half in the attachment is still pretty rough, like the part where he sticks his snout in her tailhole after the 3rd egg is a bit weird, but I think it's promising.

Then someone messaged me about the kobold self-sucking animation, and I was thinking that might also be a good alternate thing to deliver on by the end of the month. I *might* end up doing that to have at least 1 thing done...

It's difficult to strike a balance between something longer but also something that won't take forever... because there still needs to be time to add fluids, jiggle, sound, rendering, sometimes one or more things takes longer than I was expecting. And then there's me thinking "yeah, I can totally do this!" and I'm like, not there yet, skill wise >_> 

Also before I forget about it, I also explored a tiny bit of stuff for something with the dragon and kobold a few weeks ago but didn't mention it (I think? I'm pretty sure I didn't...)

And constraints and such to have her sitting on his tail. That pose he's in looks pretty okay from that side but hehe... not so good in some angles! That's the magic of 3d animation though... it just has to look good from the angle it's being looked at, it doesn't matter if the rig is being pushed too far and it looks broken from a different angle (because we won't be seeing that!)

I would really like her to get vo[r]ed/AV'd in a cool mysterious sauna spa thing that the dragon's lair has:

The dragon statues are kinda interesting- I made them by slightly modifying, posing and re-meshing a CC0 dragon model by Verbeger:

https://blendswap.com/blend/20261

Here's my result (from earlier when I was going for a blue look, but switched to red/orange):

All I did to the model before re-meshing was make the head a bit pointier. The brass-y shader is just a simple procedural metal and some mixing with color burn and a vertex color map (with a single color green diffuse shader). The re-meshing modifier worked it's best when I added a solidify modifier to things (it only re-meshes manifold geometry, so only closed shapes and the wings were single sided planes I think, or just really too thin)

So yeah the model by Verbeger is really good and I'm grateful they posted it on Blendswap. I could make a dragon statue from scratch, but I didn't want to spend an entire day on *just* a background prop when that's not really the focus. So this was a huge time saver to get something pretty close to what I'd like, without having to spend a million hours on something.