[Rive] [WIP] Tifa Lockhart "Final Fantasy VII: Repopulation" Animated Gif + Various Updates

Oh Tifa, if only you knew what was in store for you...And no, that's not the final dialogue.

Hey folks! As it's Friday, here's a WIP of my next project: Tifa Lockhart, in all her Remake glory! I'm constantly tweaking Tifa's appearance (mainly her face), because I can't get it quite right, but then I am a Tifa fan, and I'll never get her close to what I see in my head. For people who don't remember, Tifa was one of the first (if not THE first?) characters to win a fanart poll on this Patreon. Since then, she never got another full animation. Time to rectify that!

The timing of that first Tifa animation was impeccable: not only had Remake just been announced, but just after I finished making it, Tifa was revealed for the first time in all her 3D glory. I still remember all the people complaining about her chest being smaller, wearing a bra... Wait...how long have I been making animations for again? 2019? And we're about to get the final FF7 remake game? Oof...

The original plan for this animation was something entirely else, and I was just about to make it but decided to create the vlogger animation instead. While I was making that, FF7: Revelation was announced, and it gave me a far more interesting idea to work with. How fortunate that fate stopped me from potentially wasting time making an inferior idea. I blame Nomura.

When I started making this animation, I wondered how to make it SFW, so it could go on YouTube once it goes public. But then I decided to screw it, and gave her much bigger breasts, because Tifa deserves it, and YouTube would object to it no matter her boob size, and there's no way I'm not making those things jiggle. In a twist of fate, I had a video removed from YouTube because it contained my Patreon URL in it, which is against YouTube TOS. That Patreon URL was in ALL my YouTube videos, even the ones that were gaining insane views, so...I had to delete them all. Again. So that YouTube nonsense just emboldened me to not worry about Tifa's measurements and just go for broke. Don't expect a YouTube link for this video when it's done!

Additionally, my antivirus decided that Rive was malware, and now the desktop version does not work. Luckily I can use Rive in browser, and the Rive people constantly update the program so hopefully it'll be fixed soon (they know about the issue), but that did not help my stress levels yesterday. I lost a bunch of time to YouTube and Rive issues. Sigh. Only Tifa boobs comforted me.

So what are my overall plans for Tifa? I think the first animation will be relatively short: it will have an expansion, then another scene of boob and belly fondling, and that will be it. Then you can guess as to some of the content that might be in the Deluxe from the project title. I should be able to finish the first animation way before the month ends, as long as Rive gets an update soon that doesn't break my files! gulp

Yikes, that's a huge wall of text. Sorry, lots happened this week (not including other IRL tragedies, oof). Let's hope this next week is less eventful. TTFN!

— Dim