Raina Update (Patreon)

Hey everyone.  Been a while since I posted!  I'm very near a big milestone here.  For her left hand, I've just finished cleaning up and/or re-animating everything with her clavicle, arm, hand and fingers* for the entire animation.  And the right hand is about 90% complete with all of that as well.  In addition to that I've cleaned up the torso animation and the neck and head.

So I'm close to being able to record the performance capture of her facial animation... Animate breathing and flexes...and then on to transferring all of this to her final body model.

Sorry this is such a slog..  But it is almost seven minutes of animation.  I hope you are all doing well.  I'm looking forward to using SynthEyes for my 2nd animation.

In other news, I've been looking into building a new computer.  Not a replacement machine, but a 2nd machine to only be used for additional rendering speed.  I figure I am well overdue for that, this machine was made in 2012.  I'm not exactly sure how fast this new machine will be..  You can look at the specs in the attached text file.  It has the cheapest GPU I could find because all I need to do is start up the rendering on it.  My current machine is an i7-4930K.  The new one may be 30 or 40% faster.  With both of them running I should be going over twice as fast.  If anyone wants to suggest alternate components or whatever feel free to comment below or send me a message.

The tricky part is how I will pay for it!  I may have to buy one or two parts every time I get paid from Patreon.  A year and change later I'll have a new machine.  There's the outside chance some side project will come along and I'll be able to earn all of this in a couple of weeks.  So who knows!

*Finger animation may need to be adjusted when the final body is in place.

More to come!