Weekly Update! First WIPs for the Poll animation!! (Patreon)

Hey everyone :D The latest commission is now finished and I've got new progress on the poll animation ^_^

So with each project I usually pick one new thing I want to try and for this project I wanted to try and only use a white light and I wanted to get a nice floating dust particle effect made.
There was also a part of me that wanted strong shadows casting onto the characters, I was thinking about light casting through blinds but I liked the idea of an industrial setting with a big fan above them.

One thing that's been on and off in my projects is floating dust as I love having it but each version I've tried making has always look crap! (to me anyway) so I wanted to sit down and work it out so I could finally get a nice looking one to use in my projects.

Overall I'm really happy with how this new one turned out as the dust is only visible when it comes into direct light (which is what I've wanted to do for awhile) rather than having a constant emissive glow to it. The only thing is I think they move a bit too fast, it might work for this scene as there is a big fan above them but for future ones I'll slow the dust down.

Also let me know if you thing the fan movement is too fast, I'm tempted to slow it down slightly.

I wasn't expecting it but when doggystyle won the poll again I didn't want to do the exact same pose as last time so I looked at different doggystyle refs and found a nice one where in this case Skull Merchant is squatting and Ghostface is still behind in the normal position. The plan with this one is to make Skully the main force behind all the motion as well.

We have a close up cam of the penetration although this may need to be tweaked a bit when there is actual motion happening.

We then have a POV shot from Ghostface, I'm going to test pulling the camera back more so we get all of Skully in without stretching the angle too much.

We then have a shot on the opposite side looking down. I'm worried about having really dark spots but I'm trying to be ambitious and create something a bit more dramatic in terms of lighting. The main thing is to have the characters lit well enough so we can see what's happening there as it's the focus, so I still need to tweak lighting a bit.

For this last shot I wanted to look from below and behind so we get a nice angle of Skully when she is smashing her butt backwards. This will be all the camera angles unless I think or some more but of course feel free to comment any you might want to see and I will try them out.

One thing with this camera angle is it made me realise Ghostface's left hand is in the way, so I thought about it and I want to make his pose look a little more relaxed and the plan is to have him slumped a little (I think he looks a little too stiff right now) and move his left hand to hang next to him.

That's all for now though and providing things go well I should have this all done by next week. I will admit it's not a lot of time so I will reduce how long the polls go on for from 7 days to 3-4 just so I give myself more time in the month to get things done. Worse case they won't be monthly animations but every month and a half instead.

I hope everyone has had a lovely week and wishing you all an amazing weekend!!! I the new year has been kind to you all and best wishes for the rest of it <3