Update 23/10/2020: The cycle of pain begins again...

So here we go, 9 days on from the last episode and I've properly started on the next one. There's a few reasons for the delay.

First, I've been working on a new Kyn model, which I wanted in on this episode. He's still not complete, but through Library Overrides, he doesn't need to be. A library Override basically means I can import a character into a scene and it's still linked to the original file, so anything you change there applies to the overrides as well. What this means is I can make all the scenes while still tweaking his model, and if I hit new changes needed, I just update the base model. The downside of this is that I can't start rendering until I'm pretty far through the episode.

Second, and leading on from that, I'm considering looking at a render service. The last episode was 42 scenes in total. I want to cut this one down to only a few, so I can render thm out in big blocks instead of piecemeal.

Third, I was having issues getting Kyns Library Override to work. I've been using it for Efa since the start of the last episode, but for some reason, Kyn would import, I could animate him, but the movement would get lost when you reopen the file. Took 3 days to figure out the base model had keyframes attached to it which wiped out the Library Override keyframing. Had no issues since!

Fourth, I had a few days of mental issues. The comments on the last episode weren't great. Please don't take this as fishing for compliments or anything. Negative comments will always make you feel bad. Looking at them though, they had points. Jerky movement making it look like stopframe animation, plasticiney looking models, Kyn looking like a fursuit and so on. I'm working on fixing some of those. I know the movement has improved through the last episode, and I'm trying to push that a bit further this time. Kyn has had improvements and should get some more before I'm done with this episode. Efa, I've modified her scales to hopefully catch some light and look a bit better and less like plasticine. I have a couple more tweaks planned for her too.

I have started animating now, and so far I've got about 19 seconds blocked and set up. I'm not doing things like eyes, faces or squishy bits until just before I start rendering, because they might change, and I'd like to work out emotions and expressions to add to the models rather than doing them as they are needed.

For the time being, I've got two of the blocking videos I've done already, showing the first two passes of the beginning of this next episode. I've also added two images into the attachments. Apparently Patreon no longer allows nudity or implied nudity on Public posts which is fucking great.

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Actually, I'm now up to 1min24s of blocked animation. Somehow, today has been quite productive. Either that or having the models ready to go and making sure each segment merges with the next speeds things up.

Finally, forgot to add in earlier that now I've moved on to Kyn V2, I'll be putting his model up for free download as well. Just need a little time to make sure it's all there, working and adequate.