Update + Anim Challenge Retrospective

Hey everyone, hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Just wanted to do a quick write up of last week and current plans for this week. This week is pretty simple and I should be able to wrap up the Astra/Eve animation this week. I just have to tight all the loops together and animate the cumshot. Once thats finished I'll send it off to my sound guy and then get started on the next project.

As for thoughts on the challenge, this one I probably enjoyed the most. Day 1 & 2 were pretty similar, they were pretty chill for the most part. Thankfully I didn't really run into any technical issues, but the biggest factor was probably my own brain. Half way through the day I was pretty mentally exhausted and would be tired of animating. So the variation I felt was a bit lackluster compared to my normal stuff but overall the core motion I was happy with, it did it's job imo.

The last day was the biggest challenge, I didn't exactly have a clear idea of what I even wanted to do. It took about 3 hours before I actually decided what I was going to work on, and on a whim I decided that the first two days went so smoothly I could introduce some chaos into the mix, so I decided to do a field test and actually use a "fluid" sim method I've been meaning to try. This was kinda ended up leaving a sour note because I wasn't super happy with the result but it was a good way to learn it's issues and limitations. However the actual animation part I was pretty happy with. While pretty simple in concept there's a lot of challenges that pop up when animating characters. How do they react to different things? How do you display this emotion so it's clear to the audience? What are their mannerisms? Stuff like that. Actual character animation and giving them emotions has always been a struggle for me but for the limited time I had I felt like I achieved a decent enough result. This animation I definitely left my comfort zone and it turned out pretty good all things considered. I may even go back and fix some of the issues I had (like the cum material being weird) because I enjoyed working on it that much. So be on the lookout for that.

Anywho, that's all for now. Would love to here what your favorite anim was and why! I'll update you all soon when I finish up the Astra animation, take care <3