Animation Completed (Monthly) (Patreon)

The AI get curious to replicate human interactions... The AI install extra appendages... The AI replicate human intimacy

Thanks Cashew Tier for voting once again. I really liked animating with the winning position.

Check the usual links in Patreon's collections Tab named "Tier Folders" for peanut tier and cashew tier. Check folder called "Machines Learning".

*Tech notes*

Testing Something New

I could have mentioned this on the WIP but I was being lazy. This is a bit technical but it was a very relevant test that is something I tried for the first time. I'm can find myself frustrated at times when animating the upper body as I like it to often be expressive. You might notice that when I animate my upper bodies move in waves rather than stay still. When animating the abdomen bone the entire upper body moves as well. It's just how most rigs work. The frustration I have it that after moving the abdomen and then moving upwards I might get a non smooth or undesired look and because the lower parts of the torso control the upper parts I have to go back and possibly alter previous joints.

I recently thought what if I disconnect all the upper body bones and manually move each one. For example if I were to animate the abdomen but not the chest, the chest and everything above (The head) would stay perfectly still within the grid (0,0). Until I animate it as well. In the end it did give me more control to just do the parts 1 by 1 but would I do it again? No, not really. Just not worth the effort and my frustrations that led me to do this anyway can probably be solved in various other ways.

Sound

Nothing more to say just want to reiterate that chatgpt helped with some guidance on how to do the robotic voices. Now that you can actually hear it yourself hopefully it sounds pretty decent. Chatgpt is a pretty cool troubleshooting tool especially for Blender despite it being wrong from time to time.

Direction

This was going to be a loop which it is but it's a 24 second loop so its on the longer side for a loop. Whenever you have a loop this long it kinda transitions into making more sense to just add some additional stuff like other angles or movements and just make it into something a bit longer I feel. The first angle actually does loop correctly but I figured I should throw in the 2nd angle anyway on the main video just to give some better views. I'm pretty bad about planning ahead though so I just kind of animate what I want to see and then worry about how to present it later.