This Week's WIP and Previews

I'm a little bit behind today. I prefer to do WIP and Previews on Mondays, but this move still has me playing catch up.

First up, WIP:

This was originally going to be a commissioned conversion, but after having the file sitting in my "maybe?" folder for way too long I thought, "Crazy Ashley works pretty well for Halloween." So here we are.

I started rendering this a week ago, and it's STILL going. It has me a little nervous, as there's a lot of moving parts on this one. If something goes wrong or isn't quite "up to par" for my standards, it will have to be released as is. With all of the Halloween content I want to work on this year, I don't have time to re-render a session that takes over a week to render.

That said... this thing is going to be awesome in VR. Howl was the original animator on this one, and I have to say, the quality is amazing. I was going to bring their Recluse artwork into VR for Halloween as well, but there were just too many things that broke the scene for a VR release. Still, very excited to get this one in.

This is another scene I'm quite excited for. We don't get many female POV scenes, let alone ones starring crossovers between Lillith and Mystique. And I don't think we've ever done scissoring before? The shot above is VERY much an early WIP in terms of quality, but you get the basic idea. I've already sent this off to Kaeg for final touch ups, so it will definitely be ready in time for Halloween.

I'm also working on the "Nothing's Gonna Happen" scene as we speak. I'm not sure how I missed the interpolation on that one. It's a key part of my workflow that's I've been doing for years. I know I've been having issues with the Aion model in Topaz (which is way smoother with almost no ghosting), and between that and the move I've been experiencing a lot of rework. Maybe I just missed it, or the program didn't finish the job, or I just simply misclicked a switch I shouldn't have. Regardless, "Nothing's Gonna Happen" will get properly interpolated and re-released later this month once I have everything caught up.

On to this week's releases!

This VRAR of March 7th was in our pipeline for quite a while. We had to go through multiple reworks to get the models just right for VR, but the style matches up quite well after all of the model modifications. Abysmal and Kaeg did a great job on this, and I'm grateful for their patience on this.

Finally some Magik content! Cutecop and Kaeg killed it on this one as well. Honestly, the hardest part of this one was the render times. This VRAR will be released later on in the week.

That's it for this week. As I said, I'm still playing catchup amidst moving between new places, but it's all coming together slowly but surely. Another concern is my main "started" PC is having issues with it's AIO pump and some of the fans are down, so I need to get them repaired or replaced. Hopefully it's a quick fix. This shouldn't cause issues in terms of slowdown, as I can use my other PC to set files up and manage the studio. Just annoying. When it rains, it pours.

I'll be back next week with more WIP and Previews.

Enjoy!

-Dark Zalivstok