I present to you, the VERY FIRST look at the fabled Jane Doe animation i mentioned awhile back... god has it been a year ALREADY? Time flies doesn't it? Well, the wait is no longer, we have finally begun production on the project, and I'd like to take a moment and show you guys what i have finished so far!THE SCENEYou may or may not notice this scene shares a resemblance to an all-too-familiar cinematic featuring our favorite rat! I spent the better part of a day on this first iteration of it to try and make it have the same atmosphere and look to that room. There's still little details that i need to adjust on some of the pre-made assets to make it just a little bit more authentic, but overall, I'd say this look is pretty close to the finished product.
chair...
What's also great about this scene too is that the lighting set-up is actually relatively simple, driven by just a simple spot light and some other area lights in the area to fill out some of the overly dark areas for SOME visual clarity. There will be more micro-adjustments to it and perhaps some other lights added where i see fit, but overall: I think it looks pretty good
Look at that view-port... so simple (LIES)
The light of an angel...
The Model:In the last update i showed, i was editing a Jane model's facial rigs to adhere to my rig standardization and since then, i have abandoned that model for a much better and ready-to-go model. Long story short, the previous one had a lot of topology issues that made the facial rigging process a nightmare and that clean up time to completely retoplogize it would have demotivated me and caused more delays. Which is UNACCEPTABLE of course, it's already been a year of delays. There's still some edits i want to do to make it production ready for my use (i.e fully mo-cap and facial re target-ready) but that process has already been made a lot faster because of the much better base model standard.
Forgive my screen--For it is WIDE
And oh, how silly of me... how could i forget the rat in the room... her CLOTHES??? THEY ARE CANON??? W A T? I have noticed over this past year/year and a half that i have really strayed away from accurate depictions of characters, whether it be clothing, personality quirks, and etc that make those characters so appealing in the first place. While, of course, this is just stuff to goon to, i understand that but i think i can and should do better in that department, so i want to use this animation as a staple of why canonical outfits and depiction is HAWT! Don't though for all the brat enjoys, my women will always find a way to be a little venomous : )
Look at that A$%
Mmmm... thighs
The VoiceWhich of course, when speaking of depictions, who will be voicing Miss Jane??? Well, the one and only PixieWillow will actually the one delivering the voice of our gal. I was very excited when she agreed to voice her for such a big project and i must warn you: Her depiction is to DIE FOR... but you will have to wait a bit longer to hear it... which, brings me to the subject of:
HOW LONG?
Currently, the scope of this project is going to be, by far, the BIGGEST thing i have ever done. It is currently looking to be about 10-12 minutes of slow shrinking and juicy size steal action... and i have to admit, this project is going to take quite a long time to finish. This is easily, over double the length and multiple times the scope of my previous biggest project (the Makima animation). While, my skills have certainly improved since then, it will still be a challenge none the less. What's Next?With the scene effectively done, the next steps are for me to finish Jane's rig edit and some other various edits. After that, setting up the appropriate physics pipeline. Then, i will start blocking out the basic animation for the first scene. Anyways, that's about all i have for you today. Over time, i will share more looks into the project so please stay tuned! But during that downtime, there will of course, be other (smaller) animations and projects that will be released in between.Tell me what you think, I'd love to hear your guys thoughts and chat with you all!Also: discord server coming... i just need to figure out... how to actually set one up and what it's purpose will be. If anyone has any experience or knowledge on that, feel free to send me a DM ^ _ ^