Dining Tray-ful of WIPs (Patreon)

Hey all! Time to show off some model upgrades, wips and such. There's plenty of GIFs ahead, so make sure you have a stable internet connection so you can see them all. Or let me know if you think gifs suck for this and you'd prefer WIP posts to mostly be images in the future. I'm open to feedback! I just think animated gifs are cool.

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Sona

Had a little upgrade! Not too many changes, just increased her tit size a bit since she has the de facto biggest tits in League. I don't usually enjoy making sizes like this since I have a hard time liking hyper-leaning proportions, but I feel like for some characters going a bit overboard is okay, as long as every character doesn't have huge proportions in some way.

This little loop in particular was also made to test out some motion capture retargeting, which had some pretty promising results! Still haven't made practical use of motion capture ever, but I hope that will change someday. At least I know I have the technology for it now. =)

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Yunara

Our favorite Ionian Grandma update is here! As you've probably seen already in my animations. But I figured I'd still show her off and talk a little about her.

As you can see in the little gif, I decided to give her a new type of dick with the foreskin on, which I don't add too often due to technical issues and I almost never use it in animations. But I think it fits pretty well for her. Would like to showcase it in an animation someday though.

So far it seems to be working well, and in my opinion new dick meshes add a lot of personality. After all there's only so much you can do with the same dick geometry, and they all end up looking samey in their own way so switching it up every now and then with a brand new mesh is something I'd like to do more often. I do individually sculpt each girl's dicknballs, to give some realism and uniqueness but often times the texture itself is what's making it feel samey and adding custom dick textures for every girl would take a lot of time.

Here it is compared to the usual dick mesh I use (Irelia). This is not an animation project though, just a very quick pose I did to show her off in the Discord server.

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Syndra

Gave the Dark Sovereign some love too. Her old model wasn't too bad but it also wasn't using her Wild Rift face. It was instead using a modified KDA Evelynn one. Feels a bit better going with the "canon" face. Even though it probably didn't make much of a difference in action.

Anyway she's also a bit curvier than before since Syndra is quite the curvy character (at least as far as I can remember).

I also dabbled in some VFX for her hand corruption effect to make it a bit cooler than just a flat purple hue on her fingers. I'll probably tweak this depending on if it's too distracting or not in animations, we'll see. Either way it was fun to try out, I've always had a fascination with wispy magic-y VFX in games and such so it was a very satisfying process.━━━━⊱•⊰━━━━

Riven x Irelia & Akali

Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but rendering is done, and I'm waiting on the sound, for now. Not sure how long that will take, as I've outsourced it, so it's out of my hands. As soon as I get it I'll get the last of the post processing done and post it though! It's a minute long, and features a climax, so hopefully it'll be worth the wait. But if not, I still got a few incoming climax animations up ahead in the pipeline.

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Morgana x Lux

... Like Morg x Lux! Here's a few more looks and some of the angles that are planned. I've had to restructure this one animation-wise as it was a huge mess once I picked it back up again way back, so it's got some differences and additions in animation compared to how it was before. I like it though, and I feel comfortable working on it now. Oh and restructuring it does not mean I lost a ton of progress on the project, I would've lost way more time if I just kept working with what I had since I restructured it to allow for easier, more organized work. Don't ask why I didn't do that from the start. My workflow is a damn mystery sometimes.

It's a bit hard to show off all the animation progress with just still images, but I much prefer to have the animation part to feel fresh whenever it does release, so this is how I'm doing it for now.

Lux Morg is also now my primary project, so with any luck it will be what's finished next, big-animation-wise. I may still drop surprise quick animations from time to time though, those are always really fun. And images of course.

Oh, I've also started to settle on a good workflow that feels natural to me now for bigger, complex animations featuring multiple characters (only took like, 2 years... ). Which is great news. Now all I need to work on is my speed and work ethic... But, it's hard when one of the most fun things about animating is having a hot idea and getting to work on it immediately. Usually that's how some of my best work is made, but unfortunately that's not always what I need to be spending time on.

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Anyway that concludes the WIP post for now. Just a few cool things I wanted to show. Hope ya like it! Probably going to be some actual new animation projects on here next time, I'll likely have something visual to show on the Sona x Soraka anim, for instance.

Also, you can find most of these in the Discord server, in the 🔧misc-3d-stuff channel. I usually post these things there first, and then put some of them in a WIP post alongside some of my thoughts and reflections on my work. Like I did just now.