KGFacehuggers

Weekly Update (March 19, 2025)

Added 2025-03-19 17:10:09 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone!

I hope you're all hyped for Friday's Early Access version of Filling The HuggerVerse ! Rendering is almost complete, and then I'll spend the rest of today and tomorrow working on sound effects and editing. At 9 min 13 sec (without intro and credits), this turned out to be my longest Blender-made scene to date. I only hope that the extended time working on the scene pays off and earns your immense patience.

As promised, I will be refocusing on ensuring monthly content roll outs. Future scenes will be no less than 5 mins long and no greater than 7 mins long. This also means that I'll be limiting myself to 1 or 2 characters in a scene. Any more than that, and you get a scene that takes 5 months to complete...

On the technical side of things, I'll be upgrading to Blender 4.3 once variants of Gwen's sequel are finished rendering. That means I'll finally have access to Marvel Rivals characters (Luna Snow and Sue Storm in future character polls!) and promising addons that help with fluid simulation. Blender 4.3 also gives me access to Eevee Next, an upgraded render engine to Eevee, and bringing me closer to the pretty Cycles-level renders from other animators (without the insane render times).

As for the Alpha Hugger variants of Gwen's scene, I will be making a short poll (2 days long) on Saturday or Sunday. I want to find out which variants you guys want to see the most. So before I spend 4-5 days rendering two variants, I want to ensure that the options are highly requested in the first place.

That's it for today! Once again, Filling The HuggerVerse Early Access will be posted on Friday, March 21st.