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Rendering Estimate

You guys are gonna hate me... 69.5 hours until completion. :/  Nearly 3 days.

Experimenting

So I was staring at Maggie as she was rendering and I thought I would do some experiments..

A problem sometimes arises when two large muscle shapes inter-penetrate.. Such as her huge bicep and her forearm.  This tends to cause havoc with the skin simulation process.  Sometimes the skin gets pushed behind the muscles and causes problems..

So I was thinking about the possibility of using soft-bodies to make the "problem muscles" smoosh against each-other rather than penet...

Early estimate

Hey here's a rough and early ETA for the animation:  I am rendering the background right now and that will take roughly 30 hours, which of course is a day and change.  I expect the foreground will take about the same amount of time.. Possibly more.

Sorry it's gonna take so long but it's a lengthy animation at 2,273 frames. :/  It's gonna look great tho.

Thanks!!!!!

Wahoo! You're all clear, kid!

Rendering has begun on the new animation.  I'll let you know how it progresses in terms of when to expect completion. :)

Oh, Happy Day!

Maggie's skin is simulated!  And it looks great!  Rendering should be starting within a few hours.  Just have a few things to set up with this new data.

Simulation underway!

Hey all!  Great news, the skin simulation has begun.  Going at it's usual slow pace.. It will probably be going all night and then some.  But we're getting there!

Animation Progress

Hey all,

As predicted, I was busy all day taking care of nonsense.. I mean.. Business. I did, however, get a few minutes to spend with Maggie, so I re-modeled her tricep muscles; making them shaped better and just a bit bigger. Tomorrow I will get to work on her skinny-skin-skin.

Ciao!

Animation Progress!

Hey!

Good news and bad news.  Good news first.

Today I remastered her deltoids. They were too small in the last animation so I pumped them up larger.  And they are also more efficiently modeled (more use of LWBrush).  I know I shouldn't be spending time adding more improvements and just focus on finishing the animation, but I really feel it needed this.

I also animated ALL of her muscle flexing and pec bouncing. And it is AWESOME!! You're all g...

Animation Progress Update

Hey all!

I have animated Maggie's eyes, eyelids, eybrows, scapulas and breathing. Basically everything is animated except for her muscle flexing and bouncing.  You might think it is a simple step but this pectoral rig is pretty complex; It has four controls for each side.

Anyway.. It's looking great and we're getting closer. Thank you for your patience with me on this!

In other news I was able to buy that software tool I was lusting after; LWBrush. And it's alr...

Animation Progress

Hey all..   Ran into some problems with the rig that confounded me for about 8 hours.  You would not believe how many things I did to try and fix this.. tearing down parts of the rig and re-rigging them... Anyway..  I finally fixed the glitch.  Time was lost which was unfortunate, but the original rig was restored.  I was afraid I would have to scale things back to make it all work.

The good news is her mouth is now fully animated and I'm really happy with the...

Animation Progress Report

Hey hey!

I have finished animating Maggie's hands and fingers.  I also spent a few hours just fine tuning various parts of the animation.  It's come a long way since the raw motion capture data.  I'm very pleased with her so far.. Next comes facial animation!  Stay tooned! :D

Release 25 Progress Report

Hey all!

I'm pleased to report that all of the motion-capture data has been cleaned up and is lookin' nice. There are still things to animate.. Hands/fingers, face and muscle flexing/dynamics.

For those who are keeping score the frame count is 2,292 frames.  That is 76.47476 seconds, or 1 minute, 16 seconds.

More to come!

025: Maggie's Stupid Pec Tricks (Working Title)

This animation is still cooking.  I currently expect it to be done around the 8th if all goes well.  I will keep you all informed on it's progress.  Thank you for making this possible with your amazing support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent progress!

Hey everyone!

Happy belated Turkey-Day for those of you in the United States.

Here's a progress report on the next animation. Maggie's chest muscles were partially re-modeled and rigged for flexing and growth. This is the most sophisticated pectoral rig I've ever created. The movement is very real! Like Colette Guimond (But bigger). If you like rolling, bouncing, flexing pecs, you are gonna love this next animation.

I also remodeled and remastered her biceps so ...

This one will be running late.

Hey,

Like last month's animation, this one will  be delivered late.  I will run the charge on Patreon on the last day of the month but the finished animation will be sent to you when it is finished, likely around the 8th or so.  Just wanted to give everyone advanced notice so you can choose not to donate if you don't want to donate in advance of it's completion.

For this one I'll be using the Kinect and make it a longer animation and of course you can see how her f...

What About these?

She's borrowing Candace's spectacles. :D  See attachment.

What do you think? Glasses or no?

See attachment.  Voice your opinion.  Eat something nutritious.

Last Update on Maggie's Face I Promise

I rigged her upper eyelids for animation.. She just.. Really needed it.  Note that I changed her eyeshadow near the end.

Maggie Mugging - Rendered Version

This is just for fun... I rendered this out while I slept.

See those lines under her eyes that look like surgery scars?  I fixed that.  -after I rendered this.

Maggie Mugging

Here's a little rendered view of Maggie mugging from the test animations I have been posting.

http://cgman.deviantart.com/art/Maggie-Mugging-573061405

I am going to stop working on her face for now.  She can't move her eyelids yet, but everything else is very expressive.  I need to move on to the actual animation if I want to get this thing done close to the end of the month...

Maggie's brows

I re-modeled her eyebrows to require much fewer polygons and of course rigged them for the full range of brow-related expressions.  They also need corresponding winkles in the skin to appear with various poses but I won't have time to get to that for this animation unfortunately... Next time.

Maggie's Mouth Rigged.

Yay.

Maggie's Mouth Articulation

Updates:

Corners of mouth can widen and narrow

Lips flatten when the mouth widens

Upper lip pulls upward when mouth widens (and lips not sealed)

Lips can keep sealed even when jaw opens

Maggie's Jaw

Hey everybody,

Little update for ya... As you may have noticed Maggie's face did not move in the last animation. Did not have time for that after the muscle rigging. So I am installing some facial articulation.

Here is a look at her jaw bone animating. Previously her lips were sealed. I had to cut her mouth open and model the interior of her pie hole.

Anyway.. More to come!

Maggie on YouTube

Hey all,

I just uploaded the YouTube version of Maggie's last animation.  It's got a slick new intro sequence so give it a looksee if you like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYtH_r876T0

Thanks!!

Maggie Prototype sent out!

By now everyone who donated towards the last animation should have emails sent to them with goodies.  Thank you yet again!

If anyone has any problems with what they have, can't get it to play, attachments missing, or any other problem, let me know.. I'm here to help! :)

As I said earlier, I will now make a public version of this animation where Maggie is wearing a shirt.  But for tonight.. I must rest! :D

More good news!

I've just made another technological breakthrough..  And this is regarding breast physics.  Now I can finish the Candice Bosom Tonic animation!  Woohoo!  When exactly I can get to this I don't know, but I am relieved that I now have that problem solved.

Maggie Prototype Estimate

Okay it's looking like roughly 30 hours to render-completion.

Maggie Prototype Animation Update!

- - = * RENDERING HAS BEGUN! * = - -

I'll let you know when I have enough frames done to give an educated completion estimate.

Woohoo!

Maggie Animation update!

I am so happy... And relieved. The skin simulation for Maggie's new animation is currently calculating. It might be done when I wake up tomorrow.. Or it may take a few hours more. It's going pretty slow.

Anyway.. Thanks for sticking with me.. I think you're gonna love this!!

Since I have plenty of time to kill while this is calculating...  Here's another tool I have my eye on.  Unfortunately it's quite a bit more expensive than HeatShrinkPlus.  I have been uti...