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It's finally here! This animation once again set a new personal record on completion time after being well over a year in production. Making this a mini series was already part of the original plan, with the massive amount of positive feedback on the prequel only cementing it further.Originally this animation was supposed to top out at 5 minutes since it was only supposed to be a short episode, but I somehow ended up adding scene after scene, which kept ongoing even after the first Patreon preview, which I usually only post a month before the public release. With all these numerous extensions we're now finding ourselves at a runtime of a little over 9 minutes. Frankly speaking though, it made for a much better animation in the end, as the pacing flows a lot nicer thanks to a lot of these additional scenes. I definitely have to thank my patrons for their infinite patience here, which let me reiterate and revise until everything was as best as it could possibly be. Animating a film like this entirely on my own was already a massive undertaking on its own, but what added a lot of additional production time was the rendering process that easily added a couple of months on its own. There were quite a lot of firsts for me in this animation, with the two biggest additions being the use of ray tracing and elaborate fluid simulation. This meant stepping out of my ancient version of Maya and upgrading to the latest version, which admittedly wasn't too much of a hassle. The real challenge came from using a completely different renderer, as a lot of assets I previously made needed to have all their shaders converted, with some features flat out not working to begin with. In the end I found myself in this weird transition zone of using two different renderers, with Redshift being used to render the background and the majority of scenes in the later part of the animation, and an old DirectX11 rasterizer to render Zoe, as well as the foreground in the earlier parts of the film. Frankly, a compositing nightmare. The good news here is that there's still potential to improve future animations, as I'm slowly porting Zoe and her fur over to the new engine, something I'm both scared and excited about at the same time!
As most of you already assumed, the talented cast from the first Encounter episode is making a return! Gen absolutely knocked it out of the park with her performance for Zoe, and so did Barry as the ever-delicious Space Hero, who got quite a few more lines than last time around! There's also the new addition of Erin who did a fantastic job as the new operator voice in the intro of the film! As always, there's some vore sound assets here being used by Jeschke, though it's mostly limited to a few groans in this animations, as a lot of the sound design work here was done with a mix of foley and using commercial sound libraries to fill in the blanks. I'd still absolutely recommend checking out sounds whatsoever!
Zoe voiced by: https://www.patreon.com/GenLightningTurtle/posts
Space Hero voiced by: https://www.patreon.com/baritonev/posts
Operator voiced by: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/erinelliot