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A Good Report

Hey everyone..  Hope you are enjoying your holidays.  I've been busy.  Remember when I said in my last post I had a problem with her breast sims?  Well I thought I was done but I spotted ANOTHER problem with her breasts and had to re-sim the last third in a different way.  What a pain.

Then after that I created dam...

I'm still here.

Hi everyone.  Sorry it's been so long.  I've been very frustrated with the animation (and myself).  I tried to do something very difficult and I was simming the shot over and over again, well over a dozen times, trying to get it working.  The amount of time it took was egregious.  It wasn't solely the fault of the troubl...

CGM - Post #071 (Nov 2022)

This is an advance post for a future release.  Send me a private message if you have any questions.  Thank you so very much for your support!  It makes these fun animations possible!  Thank you!

Hi Everyone

It's been a long time since I made a post.  I apologize for that.  During my extended Patreon break I took on a side gig for some extra food money.  I'm feeling that inflation as much as most of us are.  But I've been working full time on Nadia for the past week or so.  I was hoping to wait until I can announce a major m...

Bonus Story: Charlie & Tanya

I took a bit of a break from Nadia.  I guess I needed to change things up.  I'm getting back into finishing Nadia's animation now.

Enjoy this bonus story.  I learned a lot more about this NovelAI system.  I think you will find this story much more coherent and less derpy than the first one I made.  And I hope you f...

Bonus Story!

Hi there!  So I have a bit of a surprise for you today.

When I was using that A.I. tool that generates images based on text, I was noticing it was taking my text prompts and adding additional narrative suggestions to it.  It was an A.I. story thing.  I was so fascinated with this.  I thought there had to be a website or...

Enjoy some more AI stuff

Some of these images are from MidJourney, others are from this site:

https://enstil.ai/

I believe it is Stable Diffusion and completely free to use and seemingly uncensored.  Most every image was modified..  Either a simple AI face cleanup or more elaborate adjustme...

Have some more

Some of these images you have seen already, but I ran their faces through the AI tool to further beautify them.  Enjoy! :)

EDIT: Added a few more

AI Face Cleanup

https://app.baseten.co/apps/QPp4nPE/operator_views/RqgOnqV

I found this really slick AI face cleaner-upper.  It does such a great job.  Use the link above if you want to play with it.  It works best if you tightly crop the face...

MidJourney Beta 2

MidJourney is doing a 2nd beta test..  Here are some images from it.. Some were heavily paint-modified and/or cleaned up by me.  I have more I would like to clean up.  Enjoy!

EDIT: Touched up and added some more images. :)

So... I owe you an apology.

I made a very expensive assumption and it cost me a tremendous amount of time.  Setting up the hair, I exported 2-point polygon chains as alembics for Storm to use in it's hair sim.  It used the 2-point poly chains perfectly to match the particle sim.  Then it exported the 2-point poly chains with their resulting animation.

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More MidJourney

Here are a few more MJ images from it's beta.  Most of these were touched up by me.. The primary image was heavily modified and I included the raw image from MidJourney so you can compare.  Enjoy!

MidJourney AI

Here are some images by MidJourney.  The first image is the current MidJourney engine (v3), and the rest are from the beta test.  Much, much improved.  It feels to me the engine is about the same as Stable Diffusion, except the way MidJourney implemented it, it is more responsive to your text descriptions.

I do beli...

Just For Fun

Hey!

Nadia's hair is still simming.  A couple of AI text-to-image generators just got major upgrades and the quality is really improved.  The images in this set are from Stable Diffusion.  The anatomy is not perfect.  Most of the images here I touched up by hand to bring the faces from disturbing to cute.

Here's a...

Hair Simming

This was the most complex thing I've done with Storm to date.  Quite a learning curve.. I had to really pester one of the Storm gods to figure it all out.  But now that everything is working, it looks great.  It has self-collisions, it's incredibly stable, and I have the front hairs somewhat retaining their shape so they do not fa...

Oh well

Sorry about that last post.. I thought I accidentally stumbled on some kind of delta-mush type feature in Lightwave.  That was a short-lived spot of elation.  Bummer.  It will be useful for blurring textures.. So making veins would be a bit simpler.

Aside from that, here's a look at Nadia's "mostly" final big body. ...

Oh my goodness...

After all these years!  I don't learn that Lightwave has a blurring node until just now.  This is the mother of all facepalms.  I will have to sweeten Nadia's final results with this.

EDIT: Bah!  I can use it for procedural textures but I am having difficulty using it to soften her animation da...

Large Upper Body Complete

(except for her abs, boobs, hands, head, etc.)

Unfortunately, all the sim stuff was not working as I hoped.  I learned a bunch new stuff about the process very late into this project and I felt it would be faster to re-jigger Nadia's upper body with a more traditional kind of rig than to try and shoehorn a working simulation so late i...

CGM - Post #070 (August 2022)

Sorry for the double-post.  Patreon changed their interface and I missed the charge check.

Also I am sorry I don't have more to show you today, I have some last-minute clean-up required.  Hopefully tomorrow I can show you more.  Stay tuned!

This is an advance post for a future release.  Send me a private message i...

Big Body Sim Complete

I'm done with the simming of her big upper body.  I had to do a fair bit of manual clean-up.  Some lessons learned that I can do better for the next animation.  Quite a few, actually.  This project has been quite a learning experience in many ways.  Anyways.. I need to finish animating her muscle flexes before I sim her ...

Sim Update

Hey all... Just letting you know how it's going.  I finished the sim but found a way to make it work better... The first time the self-collisions were not working.  So this latest sim is about 80% complete.  Meanwhile on my other machine I am doing some finishing up animation like animating her muscle flexes and her toes.  I'...

Setbacks and Resolution

Hi everyone.  I wish I had a better report for you.  It's not all bad, however.

The sim of Nadia's medium sized body went fine.  But the large one was having issues.  I probably wasted four days simming, then trying different things.. and then simming again.  Ultimately it was not working.

I managed to catch ...

Head Sculpt Retopologized

Medium Upper Body Sim Complete And Other News

On to simming the large upper body.

I've been putting off mentioning this; hoping it would get resolved.  Nadia's voice actor has stopped communicating with me.  She's been silent for a month or so.  Either something terrible has happened to her, or she just doesn't want to follow up with the release form.  So I have st...

Upper Body Particles

This is pretty darned cool.  This is her 50% grown size.

Skinny Model Breasts Simmed

Here's a clip.  Note the animation of eyelids, fingers, and toes (not shown) are not included in this clip.

EDIT: The upper crease of the breasts was bugging me and I managed to smooth it out in the v3c update.

Boobs Simming

Hey all...  Here's a look at simming Nadia's chest (skinny size).  The tummy sim finished in the wee hours and I was really tired, but I set up the breast sim best I could and then went to bed..  When I woke up I saw it wasn't good enough and retooled it..  So you can see both versions attached here.  I do wish it simmed...

Tummy Done

...For the entire animation. :)

AbSynth

Is that a good joke?  Have I used that one before?

It's about 1/3rd done with the entire sequence.

Thin Upper Body Done....Kinda

Hey all...  I've got some time to kill while this sims so I'll let you know what's happening.

Using Storm to sim her upper body was not working.. I had to restart and try different things several times..  So what I decided to do is use the more traditional approach for her skinny body, and use Storm for the beefy body.  When...