Ep. 2 - Seq. 2 - Shot 2.2.10 - WIP🚧👷 - Initial Penetration (Patreon)

Hi everyone! Hope you are doing A-MA-ZING! Kahl here to show you some WIPs and technical explanations on how the progress is going for this shot🔎 Now, we are into the reeeeaaaally juicy parts, and so I'm taking a little more time in order to nail the movement and deformations of everything so it looks just fine ;3

Taking my blocking file with the camera and model positions set up, I start by animating in 3D each character rig. My goal here is to nail down the movements and their speeds and rhythm. By working pose-to-pose, I work first in the key poses and adjust their timing. 📏

For these kinds of scenes in which deformations play a major role, I have to use more of my imagination and plenty of references to visualize how it will look. You see, in other kinds of shots (like a full-body shot of the characters), I can get a better pre-visualization since those scenes are more about the body language and physics, in which 3D animation already does a lot of the heavy lifting. But in this one, I cannot do it as much since my rig is not that advanced, so I gotta animate in 3D first and sculpt that later. The result is the following animation. ⬇️

With that settled up I make some initial renders of color and start working out the details in 2D with quick sketches. I chose to do this just for the first part (before the extreme close-up) since the next shots will depend on what comes out of it. My focus here is to nail down the forms and how they will deform. 🥏

With that figured out, I go back to 3D, put my sketch as an overlay on my camera, and proceed to sculpt the models and trace the needed Grease Pencil Lines. After finishing my first key pose, I render again and bring that sucker back to Krita to make a light and shadow sketch.

Going back to 3D again, I apply my sketch to the 3D models and animate the rest of the keyframes with a mix of manual modifications and interpolations.

As you can see, there is some weird stuff going on in some parts, like the lines of the tail. That's where Chip comes in and helps me polish that up. He will make sure everything looks nice and clean! 🧽

So next I will be implementing the same method to the rest of the shot. This will be the extreme close-ups of the initial penetration, fuck loop, and cum (whew!). You'll get to see how it all looks next week, I promise ;3

For now, you can check out how it's looking already without deformations.

As always, thank you all for your lovely support. We are learning a lot and are super motivated to keep doing our best!! We hope you are all well and getting ready for the holidays :3

Lots of love! ❤️

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