Animation Completed (Patreon)

Barriss is taking it like a champ

I started this up about 3 months ago if you ever saw the initial WIP and figured I'd shorten it up than initially planned and provide this.

Now I can get back to finishing up the monthly animation with comfortable time to do so. Also, if someone finds a Rivals Jean Grey Model let me know 🙏.

No Clothes Version on the way. I just need a day or two to render them overnight.

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

*Tech Notes*

This was started about 3 months ago so I may be missing a thing or two.

Damped Tracks

I recently at the end of the animation got an addon that makes automatically damped tracks and adds it to bones. Basically a damped track is a modifier that you can add to a bone that limits to rotation of the bone to just 1 spot that you control. This can be used many ways but I used it on all 3 of their heads to keep them relatively smooth as the rest of the body moves. Making damped tracks without the addon isn't a big deal but it's nice to have it be even quicker.

Changes to the original vision

I put this project aside planning to go back and do the original idea which was to have a climax. I instead figured just to make this portion. I was gonna leave out the member popping out and reinsertion but then I realized if I just clean it up slightly and then zoom back out then that would also work for the basic loop. I actually had the sound basically already done so it didn't take toooo long.

Super early details

I do remember that originally I didn't have them standing. They were all sitting on the ground from the idea I got from one of NYL's very old videos back in SFM I believe which had lightning from final fantasy and two others. I had a little test render with them sitting and kept the current movements and just moved them to stand instead and thought it looked a bit better.

Visuals

For post processing I asked chatgpt what could be done to give it more of a "clone wars look". After taking in some of it's advice I basically used soft lightings for the skins and an effect that use to 'detect edge' turned it to grayscale and blur a bit which gives it a sort of soft glowing around all of the edges.