RomanHume

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So this took about thirty minutes to build and approximately 2 hours to render. Another 15 minute to put it together in Premiere and I'd say the results are up to par. At this point I think I have the process nailed down good enough to say that 20 to 30 second animations should be a regular part of the game going forward.

In the meantime, Amanda's struggling with her body image. Ain't she fucking cute!

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So this took about thirty minutes to build and approximately 2 hours to render. Another 15 minute to put it together in Premiere and I'd say the results are up to par. At this point I think I have the process nailed down good enough to say that 20 to 30 second animations should be a regular part of the game going forward.

In the meantime, Amanda's struggling with her body image. Ain't she fucking cute!

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It is very cute.

But I would not be an evil supervillain without the ungrateful, ugly question of the day...

How much a couple of renders that serve the same purpose would take to make? Just to have an estimate of the alternative.

Cause really, last Cassie chapter had no animation and was by far your best content visually speaking (writing was freaking awesome too but not what we are discussing). Obviously, this was a test and all, but qualitatively speaking I think Cassie visuals were better too.

I cannot imagine anyone really care there were no animations.
 
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Well... put in those terms.... no comment!
I'm not trying to be an ass about it or anything.

Truth is I have wanted animation from day 1, years ago. But Daz was proving to be such a pain the ass working with it that I had pretty much given up.

But then like everything else I started attacking it from a different angle and now I think I have a structure that will work.

Are they necessary for the story, absolutely not. But if I can put together pretty, sexy animations at a cost of a mere 15 to 25 minutes a day, hell that's just icing in my book.

Reason I haven't done it up until now is because it simply took too long and wrestling with Daz sucked. But now I have solicited it's cooperation in short bursts and at only ~1.5 minutes per frame to render, it's worth it to me personally.
 

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Well... put in those terms.... no comment!
I think the other catch is that these characters have lived in my head for so long, seeing them move and 'breathe' gives me a weird pleasure. I mean this is just the start. Like everything else on this game that I've learned to do, it only gets better and faster from here.
 

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I agree a lot of things got nailed very well in the Cassie chapter... [Ba-dum-tiss]. It was definitely the best full chapter yet. But if Roman's also "nailed" a system to create quality animations quickly, I don't see the drawback. As long as it doesn't detract from the overall quality or add a major drag to development time, all I see is an extra layer of immersion, which is nothing but a plus, IMO.
 

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I agree a lot of things got nailed very well in the Cassie chapter... [Ba-dum-tiss]. It was definitely the best full chapter yet. But if Roman's also "nailed" a system to create quality animations quickly, I don't see the drawback. As long as it doesn't detract from the overall quality or add a major drag to development time, all I see is an extra layer of immersion, which is nothing but a plus, IMO.
So far things are going good. Using Nanami Chapter 01 as a test case, I have been able to rebuild her first chapter using the new system in just under 7 days utilizing less than 2 hours a day. That was the goal and so far I'm on track. That went well enough I took the weekend to revisit some ideas of streamlining animation that I said fuck it and set aside 30 minutes to see how much of the animation I could get done. What I've posted as the test case is about 1/3 of the total animation I have planned for Amanda's chapter. So right now everything seems possible within the production limits that I've set.

I'll of course want to complete a few more chapters before calling it a success, but all these changes might be the key to getting 2 to 3 chapters out per month. Which would be fucking phenomenal!
 
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I'm not trying to be an ass about it or anything.

Truth is I have wanted animation from day 1, years ago. But Daz was proving to be such a pain the ass working with it that I had pretty much given up.

But then like everything else I started attacking it from a different angle and now I think I have a structure that will work.

Are they necessary for the story, absolutely not. But if I can put together pretty, sexy animations at a cost of a mere 15 to 25 minutes a day, hell that's just icing in my book.

Reason I haven't done it up until now is because it simply took too long and wrestling with Daz sucked. But now I have solicited it's cooperation in short bursts and at only ~1.5 minutes per frame to render, it's worth it to me personally.
I understand! Like you, I'd like to add animation one day, but first, I need get my basic DAZ skills developed. Good on you for moving forward!
 

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Winner.jpg 2021-10-13 Poll Results

Combined Patreon and Subscribestar votes have been tallied and Amanda is the winner.

Work has already begun on finalizing the writing for her chapter and artwork will be underway before the week is out.

A teaser animation for her chapter has also been revealed already.

Look forward to brining her content to you.

Salute!
 
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2021-10-13 Poll Information
If we can keep this ball rolling and complete chapters at a rate of one every two or so weeks, that means we need to already start thinking about what comes after Amanda.

In the interest of keeping things spread out I'm going to limit voting to characters without recent appearances. Fret not, they'll come back into the cycle. But for now I want to make sure we're moving smoothly around the circle.

Choices are unlimited. Vote for as many or as few characters as you like.

Cheers!

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Obviously official polls are up, but I'm curious what the results of a soft poll here would be. Which character(s) are you most interested in seeing completed?
 

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