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Small update!

Hey everyone ^^

Quick update for the projects and what is going on. ^^

Sento: Currently reworked things to use USD instead of the usual scattering plugins I use. Tldr I have been using bad plugins and should have learned proper USD workflows and instancing before but hey, now is better than never haha. Aside from that, I bit off a little more I can chew with the size of the open...

Small update and news ^^

Hey everyone ^^. Holidays are busy for most of us but wanted to shoot out a little non content update to keep peeps in the loop.

The server is finally fixed for our workflows (3 people sharing a bunch of files over the network and mirroring files but not some files and network blablabla) and I'M HAPPY. Lost some work while we were updating and getting it fixed tho lol. But hey that's al...

Solution for NSFW

Alright, so patreon's terms make it a little harder to get posts public with the kind of content we provide. ^^ So we decided to spin up a little website. It's def a wip LOL. (I am the worst at website stuff). But all of our content will be posted there for now on along with here. Only difference is anything NSFW will be website only as posts here will unlock after one month to the public. ^^. ...

AlphaFox3D Reboot Time: What's Next and What's New!

Hi all! It has been quite a while and the first thing I want to do is acknowledge that. I want it clear: we're still here, still creating, and excited to share what's next! I think it's safe to say life has been a bit crazy for everyone, and we needed to take time to refocus. But we are recharged and will be returning to posting regular updates (more on that in a moment~). We'll keep things ope...

Hudson Update (fur and materials)

Progress on this guy is moving along pretty well ^.^  Since the last update, I got the retopology done on the character model, built the materials, and just wrapped up work on his fur! (Although I'll probably continue to tweak the fur for quite a while yet LOL).

I still need to model the inside of his mouth and rig him for animation, but he's over half way to being complete =D

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Hudson Gets an Upgrade

Now that Spark is finished and ready for animation, I decided to revisit a classic character.  I wanted to bring Hudson (the horse from Fox in the Stable) into my current workflow.  I thought it was going to be a simple matter of updating his rig and materials, but after seeing how dated his character model looked, I decided he needed an overhaul.

I spent a few hours today worki...

Spark Gets a New Toy

So, not really a "new" toy, but the dildo from Dragon Rider is making a return!  I've also been working a lot on Spark's fur and rigging, and wanted to provide an updated rendering with that ^.^

These last couple weeks have mostly been an exercise in re-learning my new Maya workflow, but it's coming back to me =D  I'm getting started on a new short animation with him that I hope...

I'm Back!

Hi everyone!

I'm so sorry for the lack of posts over the past year. =(  It's been a challenging time for us due to a number of life issues, and we've had to step back from the art/animation business to sort things out.

However, I couldn't let that stuff keep me down forever, and I'm working on getting production ramped back up starting with a new character!  I decided to t...

More Gaussly Refinements

I just finished adding in the facial and hand animations for Gaussly's project.  All that's left is the tail, and then we can get to rendering (my favorite part is the eye roll at the end).  Enjoy!

-Taurin

Major Progress on Gaussly!

I just wrapped up the motion capture cleanup on Gaussly, and it's almost ready to start rendering!

I'm especially proud of how I got the leg to detach.  It required a pretty complicated rig, where the same bones could be constrained to either the mocap data, or a separate set of controllers for manual keyframing.  Getting the hands to pin to the leg as he moved it was also a cha...

Gaussly Mocap Cleanup

Greetings, Patrons!  A few weeks ago, we held a motion capture session for the animation portion of Gaussly's project.  Since then, I've been working on cleaning up the motion.  I've still got a lot of work to do, especially towards the end of the clip.  I still need to make his leg detach, fix the clipping through the body, and remove some jitters, but I'm getting the proce...

March Week 4

Hiyo everyone :D

     Shortie update again as we continue to work on animation cleanup and scene stuff :3.  

     The scene I'm working on is coming along well.  I got kinda nutso with scene scale cuz I want it to be pretty and big O: (Current wip after learning a bunch of optimization~ 2022-03-27 08:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post

March Week 3 Update

Ohai,

     Week has been a bunch more technical art stuff that needed to get figured out.  Got water down last week, and now for the new scene I needed trees.  Lots..of trees.  So the saga of figuring out how to get millions of them and not break my computer in half has been fun.  8D Billboards 2 gud 2022-03-20 02:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post

March Week 2 Update

Hi fuzzles,

This week has been a bunch of technical and tedious stuff!  SO OH BOY.  (Plenty more too lolol)

Gausslys animation is coming along quickly, we have our animation and Taurin is in the process of cleaning it up and minting that out for the rest of the systems to be slapped to the mesh :D (fur, leg detatchment, yadda~).  Here's a little WIP of Gauss walking o...

March Week 1 Update

Hello Fuzzbuts!

Moving to a weekly update thing as the daily from before was spammy lel.  Expect them on fridays or saturdays.

With things going again we've been taking the time to access where we were and get things moving.  Figuring out where we were was the hard part 8D but now it's back to the grind!

A few things that have stuff to show :3 

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Getting back to work life/patreon update!

Hello Everyone!

It's been quite a while since last we had an update!  BUT THE TRAIN IS BACK ON THE RAILS!  

As an update, here's what's been going on in the background that has kept us up!

Taurin's Grandmother had passed away in August.  She will be missed but had a full long life at 95.  But with the complications of loosing a family member, the...

Every ship needs a captain?

Hi everyone!  And our new patreons: Alatreon, Livia McLain, georgkapa, boy name chevalier, Ian, Tales of The Shadows, mmm, Jaxxy Fur, Lance the Foxxo and Striker Teef! (If I miss you as a new patreon just yap at me and I'll shout you out proper ;D) 

     I got a little distracted from the spaceship with some new tools I have been learning.  (Finally...

[WIP] VulpX Day 2

Hi all!

     Finally got the chance to sit down and start making more crap for the spaceship!  99% of this project is just going to be making little things and kitbashing them together lol.  But thankfully there are some nice scripts that will make that last part easier at least ^^. 

So yeah~ now it's just getting a million tiny things made 8D...

[WIP] VulpX Day 1

Hai Everyone!

     With Taurin and Kish doing house things ^^ I'm starting a new project in the mean time with the bath house being pretty much done.  Kyrsaku on discord came up with the VulpX name and LOL how could I not use that for the spaceship~.

     So here's a little pic of me blocking it out today O: Not much yet, but pl...

Quick Update

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to offer a quick update and an apology.  We were expecting to have a lot more to share this month, and this week in particular was going to be a big push towards working on our upcoming projects.  However, I've had to deal with the death of a close family member, which also effects my living arrangements.

That put a bit of a damper on our work s...

Art Raffle & Updates!

     Hi all!  Just wanted to put out the word on what we have been up to in the past short while!

    First off the raffle, ezpz free art and anyone can hop in!  It's hosted on twitter, simple as a retweet and follow! https://twitter.com/Alp...

Branding Update!

Hello everyone!

     Pretty big updates for today's post as we recover from power loss and moving over the lands and oceans.  (Well mainly of tears, so many boxes...)

We are officially adopting our new branding as of today!  The same studio and the same foxes running the show just with updated name and image!  

You'll notice o...

Changes Coming!

Hi everyone, Kish here~

It's time to make some changes to the Patreon setup to reflect the new team-oriented model and change in branding away from Taurin Fox himself, and embrace the Alphafox3D team name we've settled on.

In order to do that, we're going to be changing the URL and branding on this page to reflect all of us, and possibly tweak some of the tier settings to simplif...

Gaussly Fur Update

I've been working really hard on this guy, and I think we have Gaussly's fur and materials nearly complete!

A lot of credit goes to Fox for creating the skin material, which uses subsurface scattering to make the exposed flesh parts look as realistic as possible.

On top of that though, I think this is, by far, my best fur groom to date!  I figured out how to control the clumpin...

Gaussly Fur

Now that the rigging is pretty much done, I got a start on the fur!  It's not done yet, but I made a lot of progress in a relatively short period of time.

Enjoy!

Tutorial Lesson 2: Low Poly Modeling

The second lesson is ready!

In this one, I go through creating the low poly version of the character, which I'll use for sculpting in the next lesson.

Enjoy!

-Taurin

The Robo Rig is Nearly Done!

So, this guy has been a tricky one to rig.  I had to come up with a way to make the legs detachable, but also allow them to seamlessly act as part of his main body up until the point where they may need to be detached.

My solution was to create two separate rigs for each leg, and to use constraints and expressions to control which rig the joints will follow at any point in time. &nbs...

3/04/21 Stream Progress

Hi all! 

     Steady progress on the environment.  Mt. Lumpylasagna has gotten a face lift along with the shoreline and some other bits.  Plenty of rock sculpting done and it's starting to come together I think!

-Fox

3/03/21 Stream Progress

Hi everyone!

     Long stream today to kick back into gear.  Getting progress in on Gaussly's enviroment now that Taurin has the character rig and fur to do!  

     Lots of ideas for this enviroment.  Let's see how many we can squeeze in!  Meanwhile, here's a wip of where we're at so far with it!

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Updates

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share some quick updates about things.  First off, I'm going to be a little late getting the next tutorial out.  Most of the narration is done, but this past month has been insanely busy for us, and I ended up with more footage to edit down in that one than I expected.  Dealing with the winter storms certainly didn't help with thing...