Nearly done with all of this! The first 2 mice need to be retextured and I need to fix some particles, but it's getting there!
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rq4i8xktxdfxvd5o...
2023-08-03 04:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It looks like Totuio wanted a bit of a mid-shower snack! Sound by MonsterChow!
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kk51um5qv9kd847j4g02u/hyena-ante-sound-watermark.mp4?rlkey=...
2023-07-31 04:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working on rendering the full thing! Step 1 of course is making sure I don't waste my time rendering something that's messed up in some way. I noticed I forgot to crank up the resolution of the metaballs, so things are a bit winky there. There might also be an invisible mouse with collision bouncing the gut around. Whoops! This is why I do t...
2023-07-29 17:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 5 is done enough! I'll be cleaning stuff up even more for the final, final render with all of the parts together.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/icdkcxbbyngeepxvaqb0r/antes-fe...
2023-07-27 04:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Still working on it, but it's just about done!
2023-07-24 21:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on the next part! I might have to adjust some timings here and there.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f1w1f082rq2fw2raa20w4/antes-feeding-frenzy-part5-WIP3.mp4?rlkey=to...
2023-07-23 03:02:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Ante's Feeding Frenzy part 4! They are ...
2023-07-15 17:27:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 4 might be done? I'll probably post this tomorrow if I don't see anything wonky.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95iuj76qh5cmk12v8p6cn/antes-feeding-frenzy-part4.mp4?rlkey=if1j...
2023-07-15 01:02:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished roughing out this part! Time to clean it up!
2023-07-13 07:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Showing off a little digestion, putting some more mice away. Still plenty to go for this part.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/19sbu6on77yu54uc0frnc/antes-feeding-frenzy-part4-W...
2023-07-12 20:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostOops, lots of clipping. D: Gotta fix that before I make this public!
2023-07-07 06:39:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I have to clean this up a bit still, but part 3 is pretty much done! The scene is beginning to chug really hard, so animating is getting a lot harder. I'll have to figure out what's lagging it so bad. It couldn't be the thousands of mice, right? <:D
Part 2 of the growth drive is rendered! I'll probably go back and fix some things for the final version after every part is done, but this is good enough for now. By the way, if you're planning any big renders, get blender 3.6. I rendered the last 200 frames or so on that and they took half the time.
Most of the animation is done! I see a few glitches here and there, I need to animate some stuff still, and some of the bulges are going CRAZY, so I'll try to fix those and render this for the end of the week, hopefully!
We're starting to dump mice into Ante! I still need to figure out how I'm introducing the commissioned mice. I might have the willing ones around the scene making themselves available for devouring, but I'm not sure about the unwilling ones. Some will come out of the pipe, but I don't want them all to. We'll seeeeee. I have to put some of them i...
2023-06-24 16:22:07 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.dropbox.com/s/howeajaj0uurvyv/antes%20feeding%20frenzy%20part1.mp4?dl=0
The Ante growth drive is HAPPENING! Donate to put those mice in this coyote! Every 20 likes or 2 retweets adds a bonus mouse! Their e...
2023-06-23 17:07:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I was actually about to post this, but then I saw that bug in the shirt and I didn't like the lighting, so of course I fixed those things and made a whole background to jazz it up a bit and give it a game show sort of vibe (except the host gets your money in this one). The ko-fi link for the drive is up there if you want to support it at all eve...
2023-06-22 21:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to see how fast I could animate one mouse getting eaten. Hopefully I get pretty quick at it! I won't be giving this much attention to every mouse. Most of them will probably just be poured into Ante's mouth in various ways. Stay tuned for details on the growth drive!
This might be getting close to done!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8vnc3pw6rmw62i/shwoopyinflationrender.mp4?dl=0
2023-06-19 05:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to get all of these clothes to not clip is a nightmare D:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qf82hcp4nf2fo5/shwoopyinflation4.mp4?dl=0
2023-06-16 06:47:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Added water, tail animation, some animation cleaning. Gotta add some more expressive animation, belt bursting animation, camera animation, and then add and simulate the clothes.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhmmkphktcc8l9f/shwoopyinflation...
2023-06-13 17:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Another commission I'm working on. I'm still trying cloth physics for guts, but this one kept exploding on me. I finally got it behaving with a rough animation. I need the rough animation done so I can simulate the gut and see where it hangs so I can then animate the hands. I'll be refining the animation from here, then I have to resimulate it a...
2023-06-12 07:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm planning to do a growth drive with Ante eating a LOT of mice and I thought it might be fun to try to show lots of little squirming bulges, so I figured out how to do that! I'm using a particle system in fluid physics mode with metaballs. You can't add modifiers to particle systems or metaballs, but thanks to geometry nodes, I can just copy t...
2023-05-26 02:23:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I threw some audio together last night. :D This might be the fastest I've finished an animation by trying to keep things simple and not getting obsessed with details. Avoiding simulation and using warp modifier bulges helped a ton there, but I'll be back to simulating gut physics with my next animation. I'm linking the video rendered in both cyc...
2023-05-22 17:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
3 days to complete an animation might be a record for me, I think. :D I have a lot going on, but I wanted to get something out. I might try out adding sound to this as well.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2lsuouw63q0fr7/byron%20ea...
2023-05-21 21:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I suddenly really wanted to do a snappier, toonier animation and try some smear frames out. I threw this together yesterday. Half of the time was spent making the stomach squish, which isn't even that visible due to the even lighting. :D There are a few bugs in there that I'll probably iron out, and Byron could use some expressions, but I didn't...
2023-05-20 16:12:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided to render this in cycles over a few nights for some better quality, since cycles is pretty fast these days. There are some errors near the end I'll be fixing. That render should probably be done tomorrow.
2023-03-21 18:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I'm about ready to call this one done! :D
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxcsgjzxbqew8pu/hyena%20ante%20render.mp4?dl=0
2023-02-19 22:09:36 +0000 UTC View Post
It's getting there! I animated a few little things like hair, fixed some clipping, and added a fairly simple effect to the characters' materials so simulate water running down their bodies. I might mess with some expressions and add things like blinking, and unless I notice anything I missed, it's just about done!
A full test render! There is a lot wrong here, but that's why I did it. I had to make sure everything was working with all of the modifiers and such enabled. Also, whoops! The Ante hider brush is visible in the render. I also started messing with particles for the shower. I've never actually used them before.