Heads up, 3D yings incoming! (Patreon)

So! While obviously 2D comic art is what I spend pretty much all my time making these days, I'm also a capable animator, and have been wanting to make some animation loops and short scenes involving yinglets for a few years now, in order to show off exactly how they look in motion (which can be heavily implied in sequential 2D art, but not shown frame by frame).

The thing is though, my modeling skills have gotten pretty rusty from disuse, and while I could take the time to relearn the important stuff necessary for making a model intended for professional-quality animation rigging, it would take time away from comic production that I just don't have, so this idea has remained as just a "maybe someday" sort of thing.

...Until recently, when a modeler called ZealotDKD (  https://www.furaffinity.net/user/drakosacerdos/  ) offered to create a fully on-spec model intended for the exact sort of rigging and animation I had in mind!  So, I'll be providing him a set of very specific and detailed production sketches to create the model from, so that it's as close to the core canon concept as possible.

Naturally, he also has bills to pay, so I wanted to let everyone know about this project, and that it's in the process of getting money raised for it. Normally I'd be pretty hesitant to say "HEY EVERYONE GET SOME MONEY UP IN HERE," but the goal of this project isn't just to create and animation-capable model for me, but also to create a base yinglet model, complete with rigging and poseable anatomy, which will be free for public use; whether it's to mess around with model, customizing it, creating your own animations, or just having a handy poseable canon yinglet model for art reference!

The minimum goal to cover the modeler's expenses is $400, which we've just passed; so now, the more funding it gets, the more time he can spend on details and extras, adding more quality and implementing the model's usage for things like VRChat and Facerig! Which would be pretty darn cool.

He's offering a free custom skin/body texture for anyone putting in $50, and custom accessories/hairstyles/etc for anyone putting in $100.

So if you're interested in pitching in, check out the Google Document we got going for this project below, which includes more details, and ZealotDKD's PayPal ID.

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fbYcfDilKDGFfwS6oS9QcfOEaz8rZC3ktV-0iZzPkrU/ 

Aside from all the usage this thing will have as a free public asset, I'm really excited to finally show off exactly how these critters look in motion, as I've had a lot of time to mentally work out every little detail.

Thanks for sparing a minute of your attention! You are once again free to go about your plans for the day.