Exclusive dev update of No escape: Game edition! (181) (Pixiv Fanbox)

Heya people, Scriptor here with the latest new bulletin! ^^

Animation side project

I’ve been hard at work on the animation project: finishing up the intro shot, first fuck loop and learning a boat-load of new stuff. I’ll be honest, I slightly underestimated just how hard it is to animate stuff. What I thought to be simple quickly turned into something with a lot of caveats: Ranging from issues with the softbody and cloth simulators of Blender, to weirdness in the animation layers, and of unexplainable explosions of the hair particle systems. Luckily it only costed most of my (weekend) sanity to fix most of these issues, and I did learn a ton about all the simulation systems (especially soft-body) while troubleshooting/tweaking them. I’ll save you guys the technical ramblings about those, but by god do I have a lot more respect for those guys over at Dreamworks and Pixar… The true MVPs 💯💪

Anyhow, after all the headaches with those I finally got everything ready to render… Only the run into the next problem:

Nasty ass grain in the animation. Which I’d normally fix easily, but did you guys know that there are two ways for denoising images/animations? I didn’t, and apparently the way I’ve always done it (spatial denoising) is great for still images. But if you try to use the same technique on animations it creates a whole bunch of visual (blocky/smudgy) artifacts… which look ugly as hell.

So that was the next problem I’d to deal with; luckily I’ve found some great plugins to help me with that; both in Blender (SID denoiser) as well as Adobe After Effects (neat video). I’ve not yet been able to run a “full” test run on that denoising workflow since the test renders which I’ll be using for that are currently baking in my render cue, but here’s fingers crossed that it performs above and beyond my expectations. (Else it’s back to the drawing board.) :tongue stick out:

Anyhow more fiddling/testing on the animation project will have to wait till the coming weekend. Tomorrow I’ll start on the pony suits for our pretty fillies over at Thornvine Estate, with a bit of luck I can have those suits finalized before Wednesday, so that I can take the rest of the mid-week to setup the environment (stables) for the fail-state images. >;3

Onto the teasers!

Teasers

Not unexpected, but today’s teasers are of the animation side project! Starting off we’ve got the intro shot for the animation, with focus on a flyer… I wonder if they ever found that girl? 🤔

Not that this dude seems to care, since he’s far too busy using his newly bought toy! >;3 (Oh no what’s this, it seems some foliage has conveniently flown onto all the exposed areas! Luckily there’s a leaf blower in the .RAR file down in the link below. Be sure to check it out!)

And finally a teaser of the animation’s third shot, giving a nice mid-shot of the dude pistoning away in that fuckhole… (Trust me, the donut’s squish looks pretty dope in the animation itself. ^^) (And again the “leaf blower” can be found in the link down below, be sure to check it out!)

And that’s all for this one, see you guys coming Wednesday!

Leaf-blower link:

https://mega.nz/file/NzgSCYJT#joHD3YRQEdhLGQ84MPGty2Et9oj1dZFiL7lb0aiMUl4

Greetz,

Scriptor

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