RaweTheWolf

Overview of what I’ve been working on

Along with the renders of Maya, I have been working on floor plans for the apartment Rawe is going to live in. The apartment is going to be a small and cozy one, the best size for someone with a big appetite. The apartment is inspired by a ‘type’ house as well as how apartment layouts usually are, toilets and kitchen together near the main staircase.

The room I’m going to start furn...

Getting dry again (from behind)

I also made one from behind to see how the buttocks and back fat deforms. The lower swim outfit is pretty well covered by all the blubber, and hugging that rear nicely. ^^

Getting dry again

After having your blubber and folds cooled of in the pond, it's nice to get warmed by the sun and have your fur getting dry.

I don't think she would be able to keep her hands away from all that soft mass for long. x)

Maya bathing at the pond 3

Oooff, this bra is feeling a bit too tight after all. I don’t think anyone would mind if I just let those breasts out for a while.

Maya bathing at the pond 2

I thought the bra would reveal more, but that bikini top is holding it pretty well x). The other part of the bikini is pretty well hidden under that soft belly.

The second picture of a image series with Maya at the pond. ^^

Night pond scene

When the weather is hot, even well before noon, it's nice to take a morning dip, feeling the cool water seep in between the thick love handles ^^.

Originally I was thinking it should have been a forest lake during a full moon that made the water glisten, but everything was too dark of course x). I don't think a night time forest lake would be too inviting to bathe in anyway haha. Instead ...

A new scene

With the new clothing for Maya wolf, I wanted to do a small scene. Bathing in a pond or something like that, seemed fitting, so I've been working on that.

I was thinking up how it could look, bathing in a moonlit forest lake in the middle of the night, maybe. Then I can finally use a nature asset pack I got some time back. I tried to make my own foliage, but it took so long, getting out a...

Wrap that soft body

In the last week I’ve been working on new underwear and bra. For a long time I’ve wanted to make clothing that can hold up a chest, trying to get two physics based objects to interact with one another.

First I had to make the two clothing pieces and get a design down. The underwear got the look of some kind of mix between male and female panties, that way it can be used for all gender...

Maya body play (Animation)

The animation is finally done! :D

I worked on the sfx in Davinci Resolve, and while I did that, I noticed the head hair, just before she gets up from the bed, wasn’t updated which made it disappear for a short moment.

I returned to Blender, got the last part of the hair physics recalculated and rendered the 100 frames that had the issue. In the video editor, I updated the image se...

Maya animation update 13 (Time for sounds)

The animation have finally finished rendering and the document that contains all the frames is now 98GB+, kind of didn't expect it to be that large.

These will then be imported into a video editor program, which converts them to a sequence, as all the frames have a frame number suffix.

Now it's time to add sounds to the video. It'll be of bed rummage, belly noises, breathing and ot...

Maya animation update 12

Just a short update on the rendering. It have reached frame 2702 out of 5850 as the time of writing.

There was something with the rendering time that was a bit strange. Every time I continued the rendering, the first image was quite quick to render, but the following took almost 50 seconds longer. I tried to see if it was because of the complexity in the next frames, but starting the rend...

Maya animation update 11

I made a quick test render of the animation, just to see if everything was in order. I’m glad I did that, as in the very end, the mattress starts to suck down the thigh of the character. I was so excited to get it rendered, that I missed that error before rendering xD.

The issue with the mattress and the thigh was that the mattress gets pushed so far down, the top of the mattress goes t...

Maya animation update 10

I created a couple of animations to be added on top of the main animation.

The added animations are, breathing, blink, various ear movements and a bit of facial movement. I did have to animate some of the influence of the breathing, to prevent the shoulder from moving too much, as their movement are added on top of the main animation.

I had to do some minor changes to the body anima...

The room for the Maya animation

Time to visit the room the animation is happening in.

I already got the room I want to use, a room I made for a previous render with Maya and Caesar.

The mattress needed some work with the cloth look, so I gave the mattress and top mattress cloth physics to make it appear more dynamic when the character moves around on the bed.

I then added a couple more wall decorations and a...

Maya fur test render

I made a test render with all the fur and long hair dynamics activated :D.

I got the long head hair to work, but only after I did a hair particle groom from new. It wouldn't really convert the new geo node hair method to the classic particle hair. In some cases, with the converted hair and if the character moved far away from their stat position, the hair would go a bit wild. And if you c...

Maya animation update 9 (Animation)

I’m back at testing the cloth physics for the character as well as the physics for the mattress. It has been a couple of long days with physics baking and animation correction.

I got eye movement, eyelids and tail animated, where the tail needed a bunch of corrections to the animation.

The mattress also uses cloth physics, and needed a bunch of tweaks to make it act like a mattres...

Maya animation update 8

As the character have long hair, I need to give it a bit of dynamics so it can move around and hang down. Geometry node hair, which I use, does not really support physics. To setup some physics simulation to it, you have to make two clones of the hair, one that are thin mesh strands while the other are just curves. The thin mesh strands have physics and a surface deform modifier added, which de...

Maya animation update 7

It's been some time since last update.

I've been working on the animation for Maya and I have finally finished the main body animation. And now, I'm currently doing more test baking for the fat physics, to see if the animation need tweaking. There are some places where hand and leg movement needs some extra key frames, else they take the direct path and move through the body mesh.

I...

Small side project (Test animation)

I was thinking how to properly shape the fupa for the model for some time now. It was something I've experimented with before but it didn't really turn out well. Then I finally thought up a new way to do it at it worked really well.

I made a small animation to show how it looks: H...

Maya animation update 6 (Animation)

I wanted to share how the animation I’ve made looks so far. At the moment, I’m working through this part just one more time, maybe more, as I want to change some of the hand movement and how the fingers are placed when they move over the body surface.

In the start of the animation the character goes from thin to the desired size. The fat shape have a lot of overlaps, so the physics si...

Maya animation update 5

I did some retiming of the animation as it felt a bit too fast, even though I’ve animated large chunks after reference video. For example, the hands should use a bit more time to slide over the sides of the body. Other moves needed more time to match the heavy body.

A short part of the animation had the arms going too forcefully into the side of the belly area. This made the arms stick ...

Maya animation update 4

A quick update on the animation.

It's going well with the animation refinement for the first 2710 out of 4600 frames. What takes a long time at the moment, is getting the hand and finger movement down, as well as getting it right.

The way the fingers bend and move over the surface of the body, determines how firm or soft the area seems to look like. For example, when the hand is pus...

Maya animation update 3

This is a quick update on the Maya animation.

Instead of blocking everything out first and then refine it afterward, I think I'll try to block out and then refine parts of the animation instead.

This method seems to work well to troubleshoot physics errors caused by too aggressive or tight movements (like hands that take a direct path through the body mesh to get on the other side)....

Maya animation update 2

Link to chest physics test. I've looped it once as the clip is only 3 seconds: https://mega.nz/file/MiNnBZIK#yCPJqiJB7PgZ1aCVkvlkoz6XjA4_diU2lsLWHZ6OWJQ

Currently working on the part of the animation with a bit of chest squeezing. This is always stressful for the mesh as it ca...

A quick update on Maya’s animation

I painted the female wolfs fur color map and did a test render ^^.

The animation is going forward, slowly reaching halfway through the blocking phase. I went through the block out I've already made to add more details. Some parts of it are a bit quicker to animate as some movements are repeating. I’ll change some of the movements a bit to make some variation.

It's going to be inte...

Maya's Animation (Animation)

Link to blockout animation: https://mega.nz/file/d3l0STyZ#uWBc5WLa68Co8BkyFgHvFvNhNDWWPwK11mkS32Cs

The next animation features a female wolf named Maya. The animation has been on hold for about 7-ish months, due to a big model overhaul and other good stuff :D.

Before I s...

Ripple effect with fur (Animation)

Link to animation: https://mega.nz/file/93NnWARL#XTm1faVCwJ8mpiePPJCDs56-caOeQ-QLSnc95nNJP6Y

I finally got the ripple test animation rendered, and It's really nice to see the fur shows the ripple effect :D .

I adjusted the fur modifiers and disabled those that increased ...

Unruly hair strands

As I worked on the fur, it seemed oddly slow every time I saw it's preview or did a render. I prepared to render the animation and rendered a single frame for the test slap animation. A single frame took about 2 min. and 40 sec. I didn't really think more about it than, this is going to take a really long time. Then I rendered the second frame and I noticed that each individual hair strand had...

Playing with poses and light

Happy new year everyone! :D

I think the "fat" simulation needed a bit more tweaking, so I practiced to do a dynamic pose to see how the fat behaves when bending the body. And while I was at it, I wanted to try and play with colorful lighting.

For the fat simulation I reduced the weight of the mesh a little, this makes the fat look more puffy. Mostly the chest got a little more volum...

Adding the fur

The fur was tricky to do, I always had trouble with fur grooming as it ended up being uneven and patchy or bleed into areas where it wasn’t supposed to be. Or the fur near thin surfaces like the ears would get sucked through.

I looked for a tutorial to see if there were any new tips or tricks for proper fur grooming. There was a recent YT video called ‘Create Any Fur in Blender!’. A...