Zoe 2.0 - Rigging Updates

While I’m still animating rooftop shenanigans on Encounter 3, Disregard has been hammering away at the updated Zoe model and provided her with a new rig that closely resembles Chloe’s.

With the recent progress he made, Zoe should be back in action fairly soon. We’ll still need to polish her a bit and take care of her new fur and hair. For the here and now, Alex gave her a temporary haircut that will later be replaced by a fancier strand-based system. In the meantime he’s done a couple of poses with her to show off her rig and new clothing. For her new clothing style we’re leaning more into the punky style that she was supposed to rock way back.

Render by Disregard67

Note that the model, as well as its expressions are still somewhat work-in-progress, as I’ll still touch her up a bit with some non-destructive blend shapes, primarily in her face and mouth, as certain lip poses are a little hard to achieve with bare bones. It’s still going to be a while until we’ll see her in her full, next generation fur coat, as her fur will have to be remade from scratch, but I’ll see if I can make some time for that once the first rooftop noms of Encounter 3 are rendering.

Speaking of which, I’m about halfway done with the second nom scene, which is quite a bit longer than the first one, so bear with me! I’ll have another playblast in two weeks and by then I hope to be done with animating, so the rooftop part can move forward rendering. Things have also been moving forward with music, which will be done by the super talented Fox Amoore for the majority of the animation. There’s probably going to be another Patreon WIP version before the full release, but we’re slowly moving towards it. I’m estimating the release for somewhere within Autumn with the next Patreon full preview probably dropping somewhere half of the way.