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Jo's Dialog Edited

This is gonna be another one of them animations that raise the bar I think.  I can feel it deep down in my uvula.

Jo's audio recorded!

Today I got Jo's audio recorded.  Next I will edit it down then record the motion capture.  Very exciting!

Oh, and Jo recorded a little message for you today. ;)

Jeepers Creepers, Jo!

Eyes fully rigged!

http://carm3d.com/Mouth_Rig.MP4

Jo Update - Smileier

Improved smile and other things.  Preeeeow!

Jo Smiling (and other news)

This is not 100% to my satisfaction.. But it's close.  I'll keep adjusting.

Also, I heard from my voice actor; she is out of town for the weekend and will be back Monday.

Jo Status

Hey all,

I believe I'm done rigging Jo's body.. Just waiting to hear back from the voice actor as to when we can record.  In the meantime I'm modeling various mouth shapes / expressions.  More to come.

Thigh have a pretty good idea

This is continued from my previous post..  Just showing the thigh in working order.  Look at how many bones are in there just to get the thigh moving.  It's crazy!  But it works, and that's the important thing.  I still have more shapes to model for bending the thigh at grea...

Jo Progress

Phew.. The last few days have been frustrating.  I thought the worst was behind me with her chest rig but her thigh was giving me ALL KINDS of problems.. I re-rigged and re-shaped the rotation correction morphs three times.  Finally I have a good system working on it and I can move forward...

Jo Progress - Neck

Yesterday I finished rigging Jo's neck, sterno-mastoids and traps.  I also started on her legs.  More to come.. And getting close to time to record the voice acting.

Stay tooned!

New version of ZBrush announced

These features are CRAZY... When will I have time to learn them all!?

So that took longer than expected...

The chest rigging was not working.  Unfortunately to see if it worked or not I had to make a full set of morphs.  So it was a big, painful time-sink.  I had to regroup and come up with a new strategy.  Fortunately I've got something better and it works great now.  Frankly, I...

The big difference with Jo

While rigging Maria I got some awesome tips by a math genius friend.  I used this new info to develop a new method for rigging her lats.  I won't go into how it works as it is crazy-complex math magic (or as some may call it, linear algebra).

Moving on to Maria's chest, and all of the ot...

Jo Magic Fingers

Got Jo's fingers rigged.  Usually that takes all day but I knocked this out pretty quickly.  Nice!  Of course, I used some of Maria's parts.  Don't tell anybody, okay?

Jo Update

(See attached file)

All done!

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Just kidding.  I've finished making her cage model.

Oh and I finished making still images from the last Maria animation.  I'll get that out to you all soon.  More to come!!

Jo Progress

Displacement maps completed (for her neutral pose).  Time to put a skeleton in her!

EDIT: Having fun with lighting

Jo's voice actor found (most likely)!

It's pretty clear that voice acting won the vote.  I found someone local.  She's black and according to her own words, "more muscular than most."  She sent me a sample clip of her voice and it's fabulous.  I'm not going to share it with you all until it's all official.

Stay too...

Nips

Among the most detailed nipple work I've made to date. :)

Help Me Decide How To Proceed with Jo's Animation

Hey all... I have a bit of your funds set aside to spice up Jo's animation with voice acting for the deluxe version..  But I was thinking... I could instead hire FP909 to write a story as a bonus for deluxe donors.  I can't afford to do both.

Maria's animations didn't have voice acting b...

Retopology complete

Also added her hands and feet.. And painted the variable skin tones throughout her body; although I want to fine tune that some more.

Next step is to make the UV Maps for her body parts and then bring her back into ZBrush (part by part) for the final sculpt.

Jo Progress

I have Jo mostly retopologized..  Everything but her shoulders and arms.  The Remodeler software helps but a large amount of clean-up is still required.  I was very much expecting this; there is no magic bullet solution.  It does, however lay down a nice base to get me started.

Maria 2 pt. 2 Progress

Sound design is mostly done.. I have one more layer of sounds to make.

But there is a problem I was noticing..  Another element turned up missing in the final render.  Because I was working on Jo while Maria was rendering, her teeth disappeared.  I've never seen this happen before. ...

Jo Breaks the Size Barrier

She is still in a pretty rough form.  But I wanted to show this to all of you. She's a biggun'! ;)

Oh, I bought that remodeler software, by the way.  Thank you all for making this all possible!  I will edit the audio on Maria part 2 tomorrow.

I'm gonna buy this

It will shave some time off of retopolgizing Jo's body.

Release 46: Jo Returns Part 2

Jo's 2nd animation; Part 2.  Bonus futanari version for deluxe donors!

Took the day off today

I woke up feeling dizzy.  I needed to catch up on sleep and relax.  I've been pushing myself hard lately.  After chilling and taking naps through the day my dizziness is gone.  Whoohoo!

Updates A-Plenty

Hey everyone!  The final rendering is done on Maria 2 Part 2.  I just have to finish the sound elements.

Also I have started sculpting Jo's body and well...  She has some prize-winning pecs!

I will be posting a paid creation tomorrow as many of you are already aware.  I j...

Preview video of Maria's 2nd Anim Posted

There's a brand-new intro sequence in there.  More good stuff coming up soon!

Maria's 2nd Animation Part 1 Sent Out to Most of You

Most of the Deluxe donors will have it in their email by now.  If you were expecting it and didn't get it yet, feel free to send me a private message here.

None of the Flash ($6) versions were sent out yet.

I'll take care of the rest of you all after I get some much-needed sleep! :)

Good News And Bad News

Hello,

So Maria's big animation just finished rendering.  That was the good news.  The bad news is that due to a slip-up on my part, 1,458 frames will have to be re-rendered.  A part of Maria is missing from these frames.  I was so focused on creating Jo that I didn't keep a wa...

Sticky Lips

I've just rigged the ability for Jo's lips to stick together when the jaw opens.  It was hella-complicated but you guys are worth it.