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Kobold VA lip sync WIP 1

Here's the first bit of audio for the solo-focused animation.  This is the wonderful voice of Princess Lil (https://twitter.com/Princess_LilVA and her fa: 2021-12-18 08:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Kobold fluids diary #2

More fluids. There's like, 16 different alembics that happen in various places-

I've included a viewport render with the fluids- I'll do a prettier viewport render soonish. I forgot to do *one more* [ji]zzim shot around 2169- she pulls out, then goes back inside again (like in the header) b...

Kobold topping [j]i[zz] diary #1

Dear diary,

I have spent so much time baking! Not cookies or cake, but fluids. After many, many attempts, I kind of figured out how this should work. Here's a few tries I captured gifs of:

2021-12-16 22:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Kobold topping, Fluids and such

2021-12-15 20:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Kobold Topping- Testing/working on fluids

I've been wrestling with fluids yesterday and today >_> I'll have to review it further, but I think I have the soft body physics looking good (more on that later!)

For now here's some fluid tests. I believe I talked about this before, but something I've tried doing that seems to work ...

Kobold Topping WIP 5(?)

I think this is the 5th-ish post? Anyway, the character movement is 99% done, I did notice the balls on the firey boy animated a bit weird 0929, but everything else I'm pretty happy with. I animated his right foot a lot, fixed a couple things here and there, various polish things. Still a few sem...

Kobold Jiggle WIP (and cubes)

There's a bunch of different soft body objects on the kobold! 2 for left/right [B]reast, 1 for lower tummy, 1 for upper, 2 for left/right upper arm, one for the butt (but I might one per cheek this time)

The imp has some for the butt, probably more for the rest of body later, but I'm alread...

Kobold Topping WIP 4

Another update! This is getting close to being done- I wanted to have the character movement done last week, but I got pretty close! I'm nearly done with it now, there's a few spots that have some bad clipping and some that I need to polish a bit, but overall the character movement is close to be...

Kobold topping WIP 3

I've attached an updated WIP!

Up until frame 1730, I've been polishing up various things (the rest is still untouched from the last post) Hehe... I hope that it's not too unsettling, since the lil guy's mouth just stays the same like the rest of the animation, pretty much 2400+ is near cree...

Kobold topping WIP 2

Here's the current WIP version of the topping animation- obviously still WIP so there's rough spots (near the end is quite unpolished). There's a few places I'd really like to do some fluid simulation on, it should make more sense then.

As usual, I've used some constraint trickery to more e...

Kobold TOPPING animation wip

Here's the first chunk of the animation- the rest of it is still not quite ready to show yet, but I thought this sequence looks pretty good so far!

I also did some investigating on how to approach building the cave environment the dragon lives in. I tried a few different methods, one using ...

Kobold EGG animation WIP 1

The kobold topping idea is the poll winner it seems-

but the demand for egg was also loud and clear:

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Kobold: poll for scene after the solo part?

First happy thanks giving if that's your thing (I'm not a fan of the holidays myself, but I hope you're holiday was nice if you celebrate/were able to partake)

So, after the solo part, I'd like to do a different scene... and in the previous post, I showed that test bit where the kobold babe...

Kobold animation: please lmk what you think of this!

While waiting to hear back from more VA people, I tested out an idea I was toying with. I kind of think it'd be fun if, in the scene where it's focused on her strokin', the toy breaks all the way, and she's like "You know... you look kinda' stretchy~"

Then, it's this! Don't worry- the camer...

Kobold animation update 2

Today and yesterday I started to really get into actually animating something. I have attached something that's extremely early, very WIP, and I mean *very* WIP- there's a lot stuff that's not really animated, some basic pose-to-pose for things, etc... but I'm trying to kind of just block out wha...

Kobold girl animation update 1

I felt like she was missing something, and I thought about maybe some fun, iridescent scales!

This turned out fairly well- it's procedural as well. I used two noise textures and a vertex color map...

Testing some things~ (Updated with mp4)

EDIT: I noticed the animations were in .mkv which is the default container when using ffmpeg in Blender and I forgot to switch it! I converted them to .mp4 with handbrake (but left the mkv up just in case).

I've been testing a bunch of stuff and trying make an environment for this animation...

The camera imp

This is an idea I was really going back/forth on in my mind on executing, because it would involve modeling another character, but I kind of went ahead and did it :x

The idea is that this is the fellow who was holding the camera for the dragon in the animation- the one he refers ...

Kobold face test stuff

I added bones for lip deformation which means it's time to try animating with it! It looks like sassy kobold with a mature womanly voice is winning in the polls... and it made me think "wait a second......

Loud dragon model download (UPDATE)

Here's a download to the dragon model! I tried to make it friendly enough to use with the bone shapes and bone groups, but this still might be a bit unruly at first.

EDIT: I've updated the .blend file with a brief read me as well as some more helpful bone shapes! The current vers...

"Bad & Loud Dragon" full animation + credits (UPDATED)

EDIT: Mia Impala, one of the amazing, legendary Frozen Pizza patrons, informed me that I didn't include their name after saying I did- this was an error on my part! I've updated the video to fix that + a few new names I just collected. My apologies!

Hello! Here's the full animati...

Kobold girl poll + ideas

What kind of attitude does she have? I was originally thinking shy, but I might save that trait for the equine character.

I want to have a balanced trio- the dragon is the power-bottom, seductive, charismatic (magical?) bastard.

I think a good dynamic would be that, and with one chara...

Her hands + her feet!

I modeled the hands and the feet- they're not the best topology wise right now, but they work. I saw that a fair number of kobold characters have 3 toes when I googled "Kobold feet", so I went with 3 (it's also easier that way :p)

Before I do much more on the model, I wanted to get the scal...

Kobold girl WIP + final dragon renders

Good news, I have all the final renders for the dragon animation. I'm attaching that, but without the credits. I should have sent the message out to new patrons sooner, but I don't want everyone to wait to see the final animation! So, the final animation (without credits or overlay) is attached, ...

Fluids preview

I wanted to have some of the final renders rendered today, but I encountered a few problems >_>

First, I was 100 or so renders in when I realized I had the old armature-based jiggle modifier enabled for render (but it was disabled in the viewport). So, it rendered with that jiggle as ...

Thank you

I don't know when it happened but the... *adjusts glasses* $1,000 goal has been hit? Can't believe it... The support you all have for me and my weird animation endeavor is incredible.

Thanks so much. The last couple months have been insane. Like Jesusaurus christ...

2021-11-08 08:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Added jiggle + more foley stuff

This took longer than I really wanted it to, and it feels like I haven't actually done much... but there were some real-life inconveniences that happened this week that messed with my sleeping, then I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out a good solution for jiggling.

2021-11-08 07:37:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Prettier viewport render

I've attached a preview with nicer viewport rendering that's closer to the final thing (but obviously not as nice!)

There's a few things that got messed up when I was working on other parts of the animation (the fingers clip through the ground at some point >_>) and the eyes are a bit...

Voice acting + some lip sync

I really wanted to have the lip sync done by today, because I was able to record the lines, and I did most of it- but the part where he pulls off the toy then licks it is still extremely like... unfinished. Like there's a few spots that are still pretty rough, but that's what the polishing phase ...

Still very WIP preview

I got a lot of stuff polished up + finally added a d0ng to him. I really didn't want to animate it a lot since it's not the focus, so I tried doing some trickery with constraints.

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