Work in progress, Celestia x Luna

Hello everyone.

It's been awhile since I did my last work in progress update through Patreon, so I figured it would be good to make a new post. I tend to keep the work in progress posts to Discord where I can do them more frequently.

I'm still working on the Celestia x Luna animation, I wish I had gotten it done somewhere in January but it has become quite the time sink. It's the longest and most technically complex animation I have done so far, so I underestimated the time it would take to make an animation like this to say the least.

For the future I wish to make shorter animations, so I can upload more frequently and explore a varied amount of themes. That way I can upload one or more shorter (10 seconds to 30 seconds long) animations per month rather than having to wait months for one big animation to get done. Shorter animations are also easier to swap characters with, meaning I can render out different character variations that people would want to see.

I built a new workstation recently for that purpose. So I have two computers I can use for rendering now, which speeds up rendering by a lot. (5 minutes rendering per frame is now 1 minute per frame. Meaning that if it took 5 days in total to render an animation in the past it now only takes 1 day).

In the attachments you will find the latest progress on the animation. (Tia x Luna preview.webm):
• I added subtitles for the dialogue and some of the events in the animation.
• I initially commissioned Lexxi Lovelli to voice act the animation, but she wasn't able to finish the recordings. (She isn't taking commissions anymore and moved on to IRL voice acting work). So I am currently looking for another voice actor to record the lines.

Things left to do:
• Lip sync adjusting when voice acting has been recorded.
• Everything except the ending part (buildup to climax and climax) is 95% done unless someone has critique of things I can tweak/adjust.
• Finish the ending part.
• Fluid simulation for climax ending.
• Hair simulation for the full animation.
• Enable jiggle physics.