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Ante's Feeding Frenzy finale WIP

Nearly done with all of this! The first 2 mice need to be retextured and I need to fix some particles, but it's getting there!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rq4i8xktxdfxvd5o2tj20/ante-s-feeding-frenzy-part-6-WIP.mp4?rlkey=tv2mv8d9u11sv75pdvczc92tr&dl=0

Totuio eats Ante

It looks like Totuio wanted a bit of a mid-shower snack! Sound by MonsterChow!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kk51um5qv9kd847j4g02u/hyena-ante-sound-watermark.mp4?rlkey=hz5jpd14xm759efrcxnet652v&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy full WIP1

I'm working on rendering the full thing! Step 1 of course is making sure I don't waste my time rendering something that's messed up in some way. I noticed I forgot to crank up the resolution of the metaballs, so things are a bit winky there. There might also be an invisible mouse with collision bouncing the gut around. Whoops! This is why I do these quick viewport renders. :D

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hlnf3ba6c8rswbzs0w353/ante-s-feeding-frenzy-WIP.mp4?rlkey=fuyaypocgjnrh583bx1bw2q8d&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 5

Part 5 is done enough! I'll be cleaning stuff up even more for the final, final render with all of the parts together.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/icdkcxbbyngeepxvaqb0r/antes-feeding-frenzy-part5.mp4?rlkey=u06nb9df3zvsfsv16k5jb4e2a&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 5 WIP2

Still working on it, but it's just about done!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/977d7x6qjvrtym4kvvvcs/antes-feeding-frenzy-part5-WIP4.mp4?rlkey=i74clehc345qraefs4qcpwe3c&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 5 WIP

Working on the next part! I might have to adjust some timings here and there.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f1w1f082rq2fw2raa20w4/antes-feeding-frenzy-part5-WIP3.mp4?rlkey=to1yewu8a1kosgc47vxdwujzy&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy Part 4

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pk7740pjnsop9ncjaxmbs/antes-feeding-frenzy-part4-final.mp4?rlkey=p2cctpay7aasqx4w13kmvlm1u&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy part 4! They are almost done putting away the whole big container of mice and beginning to hit their limit. It would be a shame if it started to refill and they'd have to eat even more! https://ko-fi.com/antecoyote Donations from here on out will go to refilling the big mouse container. I'll decide whether to reopen mouse commissions after I finish the backlog on them.

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 4 render

Part 4 might be done? I'll probably post this tomorrow if I don't see anything wonky.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95iuj76qh5cmk12v8p6cn/antes-feeding-frenzy-part4.mp4?rlkey=if1ju29eo4a8hlwuuy6yw3rns&dl=0

edit: I did notice a few issues with the eye mask and the crack, so I'll have to fix those!

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 4 WIP2

I finished roughing out this part! Time to clean it up!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ty5kmdbc2162ookfm76qd/antes-feeding-frenzy-part4-WIP2.mp4?rlkey=4sxk3zuimwbm9c32x1pxrasb6&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 4 WIP

Showing off a little digestion, putting some more mice away. Still plenty to go for this part.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/19sbu6on77yu54uc0frnc/antes-feeding-frenzy-part4-WIP.mp4?rlkey=akosplojkam7zdt2eytjzepym&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy Part 3 WIP

Oops, lots of clipping. D: Gotta fix that before I make this public!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8dijxj4hc7gifakbnuie/antes-feeding-frenzy-part3.mp4?rlkey=ey04j9lsd1wm8n0k0aznk7x9v&dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 3 WIP

I have to clean this up a bit still, but part 3 is pretty much done! The scene is beginning to chug really hard, so animating is getting a lot harder. I'll have to figure out what's lagging it so bad. It couldn't be the thousands of mice, right? <:D

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztemwvtgvemyvyy/antes%20feeding%20frenzy%20part1-3%20WIP3.mp4?dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive Part 2

Part 2 of the growth drive is rendered! I'll probably go back and fix some things for the final version after every part is done, but this is good enough for now. By the way, if you're planning any big renders, get blender 3.6. I rendered the last 200 frames or so on that and they took half the time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8an4be5grqcp5m/antes%20feeding%20frenzy%20part2.mp4?dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive (part 1+2 WIP3)

Most of the animation is done! I see a few glitches here and there, I need to animate some stuff still, and some of the bulges are going CRAZY, so I'll try to fix those and render this for the end of the week, hopefully!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kqn67223vjxkg7/antes%20feeding%20frenzy%20part1%2B2%20WIP3.mp4?dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive (part 1+2 WIP)

We're starting to dump mice into Ante! I still need to figure out how I'm introducing the commissioned mice. I might have the willing ones around the scene making themselves available for devouring, but I'm not sure about the unwilling ones. Some will come out of the pipe, but I don't want them all to. We'll seeeeee. I have to put some of them in next.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sp1i6boyoq9qrun/antes%20feeding%20frenzy%20part1%2B2%20WIP.mp4?dl=0

Ante's Feeding Frenzy growth drive (part 1)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/howeajaj0uurvyv/antes%20feeding%20frenzy%20part1.mp4?dl=0

The Ante growth drive is HAPPENING! Donate to put those mice in this coyote! Every 20 likes or 2 retweets adds a bonus mouse! Their eyes might be a little bigger than their stomach, but we'll get them all in there one way or another! $1 per mouse and $20 for a custom mouse! Check out my ko-fi for details! https://ko-fi.com/antecoyote

Ante's Feeding Frenzy part 0 WIP

I was actually about to post this, but then I saw that bug in the shirt and I didn't like the lighting, so of course I fixed those things and made a whole background to jazz it up a bit and give it a game show sort of vibe (except the host gets your money in this one). The ko-fi link for the drive is up there if you want to support it at all even though I haven't posted anything publicly yet. You can also commission custom mice to be eaten, which will get increased focus from Ante (most of the other mice will be eaten in large amounts in various ways).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wii0km117l9wvcb/ante%20mouse%20drive%20part1.mp4?dl=0

Ante growth drive test animation

I wanted to see how fast I could animate one mouse getting eaten. Hopefully I get pretty quick at it! I won't be giving this much attention to every mouse. Most of them will probably just be poured into Ante's mouth in various ways. Stay tuned for details on the growth drive!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjiq4s96tefoz4c/ante%20mouse%20drive%20WIP1.mp4?dl=0

Shwoopy Inflation Eevee Render

This might be getting close to done!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8vnc3pw6rmw62i/shwoopyinflationrender.mp4?dl=0

Shwoopy Inflation WIP4

Trying to get all of these clothes to not clip is a nightmare D:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qf82hcp4nf2fo5/shwoopyinflation4.mp4?dl=0

Shwoopy Inflation WIP2

Added water, tail animation, some animation cleaning. Gotta add some more expressive animation, belt bursting animation, camera animation, and then add and simulate the clothes.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhmmkphktcc8l9f/shwoopyinflation2.mp4?dl=0

Shwoopy Inflation WIP1

Another commission I'm working on. I'm still trying cloth physics for guts, but this one kept exploding on me. I finally got it behaving with a rough animation. I need the rough animation done so I can simulate the gut and see where it hangs so I can then animate the hands. I'll be refining the animation from here, then I have to resimulate it again and hope it's still all good. THEN I need to simulate the physics of 2 layers of clothes on top of this. :D I had to do a few interesting things with vertex proximity weights to make the belt squish in and keep the gut from escaping the belt before it breaks.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/avoxwhvowy3brtz/shwoopyinflation0001.mp4?dl=0

Mass micro vore stomach test

I'm planning to do a growth drive with Ante eating a LOT of mice and I thought it might be fun to try to show lots of little squirming bulges, so I figured out how to do that! I'm using a particle system in fluid physics mode with metaballs. You can't add modifiers to particle systems or metaballs, but thanks to geometry nodes, I can just copy the metaball mesh to a new object and work with that. Once I have that mesh, I shrinkwrapped a sphere to it, allowing me to smooth it out and such. I'll probably use this pink sphere inside of the Ante model for the animation. Here it is filling up with 1000 particles (mice ;9).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4dcm9fj4arpw5x8/mouseparticletest.mp4?dl=0

Byron eats Toon Ante

I threw some audio together last night. :D This might be the fastest I've finished an animation by trying to keep things simple and not getting obsessed with details. Avoiding simulation and using warp modifier bulges helped a ton there, but I'll be back to simulating gut physics with my next animation. I'm linking the video rendered in both cycles and eevee. Cycles has more accurate, ray-traced lighting, but people might prefer eevee for the less shadowed maws and such.

cycles: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p6fgqk6xqnd7ln4/byron%20eats%20toon%20ante%20cycles%20audio.mp4?dl=0

eevee: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1lkvikkhbedbqs/byron%20eats%20toon%20ante%20audio.mp4?dl=0

Byron eats Toon Ante (finished?)

3 days to complete an animation might be a record for me, I think. :D I have a lot going on, but I wanted to get something out. I might try out adding sound to this as well.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2lsuouw63q0fr7/byron%20eats%20toon%20ante2.mp4?dl=0

Byron eats toon Ante quick animation

I suddenly really wanted to do a snappier, toonier animation and try some smear frames out. I threw this together yesterday. Half of the time was spent making the stomach squish, which isn't even that visible due to the even lighting. :D There are a few bugs in there that I'll probably iron out, and Byron could use some expressions, but I didn't want to spend too much time on this. I'll probably at least fix the clipping and Byron's hand going on vacation.

edit: added some bulges, fixed some issues. Clipping is still an issue!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yah8af2jgpu4p4n/byron%20eats%20toon%20ante.mp4?dl=0

Totuio eats Ante cycles render (slight errors)

I decided to render this in cycles over a few nights for some better quality, since cycles is pretty fast these days. There are some errors near the end I'll be fixing. That render should probably be done tomorrow.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gj2gdib40o8afaw/hyena%20ante%20cycles%20render.mp4?dl=0

Totuio eats Ante render

I think I'm about ready to call this one done! :D

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxcsgjzxbqew8pu/hyena%20ante%20render.mp4?dl=0

Totuio eats Ante WIP9 render

It's getting there! I animated a few little things like hair, fixed some clipping, and added a fairly simple effect to the characters' materials so simulate water running down their bodies. I might mess with some expressions and add things like blinking, and unless I notice anything I missed, it's just about done!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/llwrf7vk4lezky3/hyena%20ante%20WIP9%20render.mp4?dl=0

Totuio eats Ante WIP8

A full test render! There is a lot wrong here, but that's why I did it. I had to make sure everything was working with all of the modifiers and such enabled. Also, whoops! The Ante hider brush is visible in the render. I also started messing with particles for the shower. I've never actually used them before.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/37612wlaplcrvlm/hyena%20ante%20WIP8.mp4?dl=0