Animation Completed (Patreon)

There is no escape but I don't think Sue minds it much

Gonna go back to the monthly animation I already got the pose for and next post will likely be a WIP for that. Also planned on using Sue's alternate outfits as well but will go ahead and release this for now.

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

*Tech Notes*

Lights

In the end lighting was alright I think and I wanna discuss something I've been doing but don't think I've mentioned it previously. I use Eevee for most all animations. Eevee has something Cycles does not have which is light distance. Cycles does light better than Eevee but the good thing is that Eevee can atleast be customized and tweaked alot. So with 'light distance' you can choose how far a light's influence actually is.

So I have about 30 lights in this scene because I individually lighted multiple parts of their bodies with lights that only hit certain areas of their bodies. This gives nice control but with a slight downside which is that if the characters moves alot, they might move out of the lighting range and the lighting may look more inconsistent in certain moments.

Other

I just list off some remaining thoughts. I used alot of cloth physics in alot of spots including Emma's peen and balls. Initially I was going to use spring bone physics for Emma's hair like I often do for people's hair (including Sue) but for Emma it was giving issues so I went with a much easier alternative to quickly do hair. Which is to either use it's bones or you can use shape keys to make it sway back and then forth and that is all. I manually made some small changes for when Emma tilts her head so the gravity feels more legit.

I disconnected the bones for Sue's upper body and head because it was jittering following the lower body and disconnecting them helps to remove that problem. Obviously the downside is you need to manually animate those parts following the bones which isn't that big a deal and it helps to give that freedom of following the rest of the body.