Mage Demon Growth TF Animation, WIP Images / Videos

Welp, we're in the endgame now, bois.

Here's a LOT of new progress on the upcoming demon growth animation!

Sooo, gdamn, where to start haha.ALL of the animation on this project is now finished, and now we're on the finishing touches to finalise the project. These finishing touches are -

Fluid simulation

Lighting

Particle simulation tweaks

Post processing

Rendering

Then finally some more audio additions

This might all seem like a lot, but I can get through most of this within three days or so, minus the rendering part; I'm not sure how long that will take, but at most a day or two with no issues.

Although the scene might look like it's already pretty well lit, the lights that are currently placed are just static environment lights that just make areas of the scene look pretty, and are not really intended to light the character. I tend to manually move lights and place them in a way to light the character near the end of the project. So the lighting you see in these images is not final.

The stuff I managed to get done since the last patreon post are

All of the animation

Cloth tearing

Texture transition

Clipping fixes

Beam correction

Further audio additions

More shapekeys for growth

ANDDDD ---- Blender update to 5.1.1

>> ANOTHER HUGE NOTE <<

I've decided to swap to Blender version 5.1.1Previously, on all my animations up till now, minus one or two, I've been using Blender 3.4.5 (which in my opinion was the most stable version of Blender until recently). After doing some research and also wanting to try out the new raytraced Eevee rendering, I discovered this new version of Blender is VERY optimised.

All the images above are taken in Blender 5.1.1; this version of Blender has raytraced lighting, advanced particle sims, and a very optimised workspace, and a LOT more that I haven't really gone into yet.

Long story short, the reason why I never fully swapped to this version of Blender was that I use a lot of plugins. Most of these plugins didn't support anything over Blender 3.4.0, meaning I couldn't update my software. But as of fairly recently, I've managed to find ways of getting by without a lot of these plugins, meaning I can finally update!

Regarding a percentage on where this animation is now, I'd say 90%. And it is very much on track to be released this month.

Here are some WIP videos:https://mega.nz/folder/ebhyjA7A#JAy-zQnflZrap81aZoEYsw

Thanks for the support!