At this rate we'll never leave - Playblast (Rough)

Zoe decided to send Space Hero back into timeout after he got a little lippy with her, guess he'll be stuck with her for a little longer, oh well! There's still a lot of squish deformation missing, as well as animation on Zoe's throat, apologies for the roughness. ;-;

Happy New Year to everyone! Here's hoping you're all off to a great start! December had been a little turbulent for me, starting with my long overdue second date with Covid, and ending as busy as it gets. On top of everything, I had an RTX 4090 die on me, which prompted me to get a refurbished one for a quick replacement at a """"reduced"""" price. Since the card died only 2 years and 2 weeks after purchase, it was just out of warranty, but with how much these cards cost I decided to send it to a repair shop and low and behold - they fixed it! They wouldn't give me the exact procedure, but made it sound like they put it into an oven and then it worked again. Fine by me! They mentioned it might break again in the foreseeable future, but it's better than nothing for the time being.

Unfortunately I'm not quite finished animating all the shots of the additional Zoe scene, but progress wise we're looking at 10/14 animated shots with the most complex ones being out of the way. I'm probably going to need another week to animate the rest and then do a polish pass on all scenes, before getting started with rendering these. So far all other Encounter 3 scenes are now fully rendered. I'll probably do another big preview at the end of this month, which at this point should get fairly close to the final version of the film. Gotta see how much of the Zoe scene I can squeeze into that, as by then some of it will be rendered. Fingers crossed!

Voting on Zoe's new VA gave a pretty clear result, so we're sticking to actress 1 (Voice Vixen) for this one. I'm making sure to keep in touch with the second actress (Lady Amaris) to see if we can recast her for a future character if the opportunity arises, as I really like the tone of her voice.