[WiP] "The Flower Girl" #1 + Updates (Patreon)

Aerith animation is in the works! 🌸 WIP preview inside, plus some updates

Aerith animation 🌸

hii loves, thank you so much to everyone who voted in the last poll!! i started working on the Aerith animation this week and i'm really excited about this one

i had this idea for a while after seeing a video with a similar vibe, really wanted to recreate that scene and make it my own. i'm trying to make sure my animations actually feel hot and not just technically correct lol, i hope i'm on the right path

working with Aerith's model has been really nice honestly, it's a high quality model and she is just so cute omg

the base loop is almost ready and i'm moving into variations now, which is going to be a little complex, wish me luck. goal is to have it done by friday but no promises, we'll see how the variations go

General Updates

Patreon can now host videos! 🎉

big one, Patreon recently reached out and let me know i can now post videos directly on here. if you've been around for a while you know that up until now all my animations had to be downloaded and extracted from a zip file because 18+ creators couldn't upload videos directly. that changes now! all future animations will be embedded directly in the post, and the zip file will still be available to download too 🤍

down the line i also want to create a folder somewhere so you guys have easy access to all my work in one place, but that's a future project

Cascadeur

i've been trying to find a solid workflow with Cascadeur for weeks, it's an animation software that makes certain parts of the process faster and more intuitive, and i'm finally able to actually use it, even if i'm still getting comfortable with it

the potential here is huge. one of my goals is to make dance animations with Vi Vi' and other characters, SFW and NSFW variants, posted as short-form content on X and other platforms, all available for you guys too. Cascadeur is a big part of making that happen. this weekend i ported Aerith's model into it and it's a little overwhelming to look at the whole pipeline right now, but i'll get there

Cloth NeXt

physics has been a struggle for a long time. it's gotten so much better than it was before, but Blender's physics system is genuinely not user friendly. there are so many settings and every single one of them matters, which makes it really easy to spend hours on something that should take twenty minutes

i got Cloth NeXt to help with that, it's a physics simulation tool that doesn't make me want to pull my hair out the way Blender does lol. here's a little test i ran with it

How am I

if you've been here for a while you might remember me mentioning a few weeks ago that my life had turned upside down. well, things went back to normal, which also meant everything flipped over again lol. it's actually good news, just takes some adjusting

on the social media side though, things have been draining me a little. the Tifa animation didn't do well on X, and Aerith is looking like it might be the same. the thing is, my X account grew around Final Fantasy XIV content and Vi Vi' specifically, most of my followers are there for that, and switching to general 3D feels like starting from scratch in front of an audience that didn't sign up for it

i don't want to overuse Vi and burn out on her, that's genuinely why i started exploring other characters. Tifa felt like a natural bridge but it didn't land the way i hoped. i've been going back and forth about creating a separate account for general 3D content and keeping my main one for Vi Vi' and XIV stuff, but i honestly don't think i can produce enough to feed both

it's been messing with my motivation more than i'd like to admit. i hope this is just a phase and that in a few months i'll look back and think "i'm glad i pushed through that"...

see you friday 🖤