Late-May Status Update (Patreon)

Hi again! This update's more of a WIP collection since I've been working on two commissions at the same time. I'll go over em one after another:

1) This is a six-part sequence commissioned by RandomDudeGamer on twitter! It has Mii try and teach Shantae one of her special dances to... a degree of success lol. I've already gotten two parts mostly done and am progressing to part 3.

Part 1: Shantae and Mii converse a bit here, so I left a lot of space between them and to Mii's right.

Part 2: This is getting into the actual dance aspect. Shantae's not exactly getting it yet. Mii's just enjoying herself and letting the dance make her lower parts expand!

All of Mii's dances from her source material are glorified lap dances, so finding poses for it has been interesting...

Now for some trivia: initially, part 2 was supposed to be from a behind perspective like so.

But, I was told to let their faces be shown, resulting in the earlier pic. God I'm glad camera changes are so easy in 3D lol; if not, doing that change would've taken a long time. I'm also glad Mii's poses are mostly transferable to Shantae; that Mii model is a PAIN to use for all sorts of reasons. Usually, hassle models don't like imported pose data and poses made with them only work for them. The lack of such a problem lets me better recreate and intentionally fuck up Mii throwing it back for Shantae's pose!

As a reward for reading all that, here's a pic of Mii before I changed her upper body all caked up lol:

2) This is a continuation of my two Yukari inflation renders I made for twitter. A part 3 was never made until now since I aint get enough ratings (it was an attempt at a retweet/like for rewards post, which did work for Nicole). Still, the support I got was massive, which I still appreciate to this day!

Now, for the WIP. I have to, well, pose her, but the stomach's size and picture's angle are mostly set! I'm still flipping between if the stomach needs to be flatter or not, but it's a good rough structure pose! I also need to find a good place for Jane Doe to keep inflating her with the buster. I'm super glad I found the Iris model it comes from; I love the ideas I've been able to make with it!

General Notice:

As I've gotten better at making 3D art, I've ran into more and more roadblocks with MMD. More ideal lighting, more specific inflation shapes, inflating models with their built-in clothes still on, having post processing effects on things, and editing model sizes on the fly are either super complicated and cumbersome in MMD or just impossible. As such, I'm trying to learn how to make art in Blender! Though, with me having such a big backlog of comms, even when I've time to do whatever, it always feels like it's more efficient to use time spent in blender to make more comm progress. I'm sure I'll eventually convince myself, and once I do, I'll start recreating my past arts inside it and try to improve them!

Thanks for reading, and I hope to have more to show you and everyone else soon!