Anthony Taconi

Where to go from here

I haven't spoken a lot about it. Mostly because I've been a colossal mess. But I legitimately feel like I've been just... doing art wrong. forever. 

I plan to stop charging for patreon once I get stable work outside of art commissions. I still want to do my personal projects, but I feel like I've taken advantage of ya'lls g...

Some dialogue animations

Tatiana's proportions are silly I'm glad I kept them

walk cycles are hard

Make stupid polls...

Held a twitter poll to help pick between three similar swords to work on, and put "Juggle them coward" as an option.

It's in second place currently.

Mama didn't raise no binyot lesgooooo

New Workflow Stress Test

took me 5 hours to put this together. So I feel like it's a significant increase from my previous workflow. Just gotta take the time to get the assets I need for characters done up in blender beforehand. 

Blender Asset Tests

SO THESE TAKE SOME EXPLAINING

I recently came to the conclusion/discovery that I could use Blender to make reference objects for more than just weapons like I've been doing.

Started out with headshapes so I could get Ears/Hair/Horns consistent and be a lot more dynamic with my head angles

than I...

Sly Commission

Done somewhat quickly to pay for a sudden bill oogh. But they were real sweet about it, which I'm grateful for.

Commission for Urtheart

He was really patient with me so I wanted to spice it up a lil' with a small animation

Tree asset test

Finally figured a way to do this that I don't hate

Koal Idle Completed

yeah a lot of moving parts. How do wings even work?

magic charge

just the animation from the previous video, no special effects.

Big or small?

Is it better to make large posts with multiple assets or small daily posts with constant updates?

MOVED

FINALLY MOVED. just finished setting my computer up. Just gotta spend al ittle bit settling in and... figuring out how to put my chair back together. BUT AFTER THAT I'll be good to just GO NUTS and draw

Quick and dirty stuff to test out my setup

Now that it's sorted out, I should be good to move in like 20 days. And chip away at commissions.

Characters

I uploaded these to twitter but whatever GAMES GIVE ME CHARACTER IDEAS I was too tired to draw any cool outfit designs but hey hooved ladies

Outside of maybe making the dual wielding deer lady a pirate in the crew of a pirate lady I STILL NEED TO DRAW PROPERLY idk what to do with them but hey ideas

Rough Transition Incoming

SO things are dumb with family atm but there's a good part to this. I'm moving out to stay with friends on March 10'th, and things should be -WAY- easier for me once that happens.

Until then though I'll probably be kinda quiet as far as art goes. I'll try to do something, but aaaaaaaa

Apologies for that.

Docking?

If I had a nickle for every time I had a character with huge tits, and a huge tail, I'd have two nickels.  Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.

While Venidray probably will only show up as a background character, at best, because they're pretty firmly rooted in Kink territory, I definitely wanna do more with ...

more tests

this one was/is public on Twitter so I figured I'd at least upload it here. 

It's hard to notice but the real test was seeing just how much I could abuse the program before it became unrecognizable. There's only three layers to this image (The background arm, the hair/tail, and the rest.) when previously I would have split ...

Mesh Deformation Test

Soon as I get a solid WIP of one animation, the program I'm using to put it all together gets a MAJOR UPDATE and I'm like

OOGH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRNhk3rr7A

Anyway I get to play with Mesh Deformatio...

Fat mood venting, Update.

Had a week long moment of weakness when I just got super indulgent and tweaked my sona to be a huge fat fuck.

Will not affect Strife's designs or anything, just a quick and dirty MOOD.

My finances are kinda in shambles and I'm terrible at focusing on that fact because of family matters.  So work on the next...

Tatiyana Dodge 60 fps test

So it might not be readily apparent but I made some poor buisness decisions that MAY or MAY NOT allow me to animate my dumb videos in 60fps now. Which is something I really wanted to do but lacked the hardware necessary for it.

Even if I don't go that route, 30 FPS will be much easier to work with.

We'll see! IT...

Small excuse for the delay

Real life stuff and Covid have kinda kicked me in the shin and I'm workin' on getting through it. Sorry for the delay, but thank ya'll for being patient with me.

Cross from Above (Finished)

Took too long to do this c'ause of RL stuff with family going on, but hey that's one more bit of character animation done.

speed wa-GON

Part of me wants to work on more character animation. The other part of me wants to chip away at the second episode and start making assets for it.

So here's an asset for it. 

I'm still debating what I want to be pulling the thing but hey WAGONS

Took a huge amount of shortcuts here but time...

Commission: Sangria

Quick comm for a friend to kinda test the waters for if i'm ready to do public comms or not

Butros run anim

More Pixel-over stuff. Liking how much time this sorta thing is saving me. Even did a type of Run here that normally gives me trouble. We'll see how it works out once I put it in the animation and stuff.

Ast Run Cycle

Didn't feel like putting it in a proper gif so there's some awkward compression. This is a story pose, but I can easily re-use the legs for something mid combat. I'm excited with how well this came out! Run cycles are kinda hard for me and this came out super well, all things considered. 

Cleaned up the idle too

Me sleepy go zzzzz

Cleanup Test

Cleaned up one of Tatyana's animations to see both how long it would take me (not very long at all, which is surprising) and how much of an improvement it'd be.  Put the un-cleaned GIF of the same animation up too just for comparisons sake.

Tatyana Showoff

No cleanup at all, just seeing what I can get away with. Something to do while waiting on voice work to come in.

Some Idle animation tests

So I acquired a lot of cool tools, one of which is Asset Forge which lets me do really cool things with 3D models. Hence the slight tweaks to the sword.

As I learn more and get better I kinda wanted to gradually redo and touch up some animations, but it's not a huge priority. Just something to chip away at as I do poses for thes...