Kiriko Upgrade (+ End of July 26' Update) (Patreon)

"Where are the animations Duke?" Well dear reader.. with my incessant need to extract as much quality as I possibly can, it tends to slow things down, unfortunately. Some of you may think its worth it, others not, at the end of the day, I believe it to be necessary to some degree of course, but at one point one does have to compromise, if we're to ever get anything done.

If you feel like reading a ramble, it goes on below, if not, TLDR is work is being done: laying ground work and making things look prettier, meaning to actually get back to animating soon.

At least as of writing, I'm feeling satisfied to have just about exhausted what I felt I could improve on (with Kiriko's model). It tends to be momentary yes, but at least for now, I can take it in and move on. Animator actually gets to animating? Imagine.With that aside, let me show you some of the results from this month's work. For the first half I was laying groundwork for future anime style animations. It is going well, but then I decided to update the anime models to the latest blender, a headache now, but that alleviates future ones greatly. Since further work is required there, will share results as they come.In the past week or so, I instead got caught up in finalizing the upgrades to my Kiriko model, which I have been meaning to release to the public (this new version with the upgrades) forever now. But oh I just have to polish it as well as I can, don't I? so of course. It took another while. But just about done.At the end of the day, the updates I've been doing on Kiriko for instance, some are to make my life easier ie rig related stuff facilitates animation, others are both for that and for a better looking final result ie the shaders, easier to work with and better looks, better shapekeys and deformation, better hair, etc.

Anyhow. Back whenever something more is done. Thanks a ton for sticking by <3