More work done on Lulu, spent most of my day yesterday working on the body. The skirt and ruff do move using smart stretch. So it’s nothing too advanced but still can be animated with.

I did have some issues making the body, for example making the skirt look right, which I still think looks a little off but I hope that’s just because there’s no legs yet. I also had to change the lines on her suit as they didn’t look right when done how I drew the render. Finally I had to oversize her clothing a bit to make it like the drawing as well. Without doing that the costume looked too small.

Next up are her arms which I think I can get done today. The only concern I see is I’m not sure how to make her upper arm/shoulder go above her ruff and still look right. I’m thinking I may just need to make the ruff fully animatable to make that work.

New character in the works. Originally I was going to start the base then realized it just be easier if I skip to the figure itself so the base will be next.

So with this character, the head and any secondary figures for it have been made. This is the most amount of secondary figures I’ve needed to make for a figure’s head as well, 4 in total. The hat caused some issues when I was making it but I eventually got it looking right. The color of everything may be temporary, I never decided on the colors so just played it safe making most of the figure black and white.

Her name is Miss Lulu Violeta. “Miss” being a name lots of older performers in circuses used, and “Lulu” being based on the clown Lulu Adams, one of the first woman clowns to preform in big British circuses. Violeta isn’t related to anything, just thought it sounded nice with the name.

She is the character I mentioned had a full render drawn, so I may release that once the figure is done. Pretty happy with the figure so far, hopefully she won’t take too long to make.

Finished that new animation I talked about in my last post. I did originally have more planned but I’m not actually sure how to transition this into that, so I feel it’s best to leave it here. I do find the current ending funny plus I would like to spend some time working on the fundamentals more and studying, so I think this is the right call.

Pretty happy with it as a whole, I think it’s my best animation ever. Still have a long ways to go before I am where I want to be at, but this is defiantly a step in the right direction. Would love to hear any advice, critiques, what you liked, etc.

(Note the quality is at 480p since anything higher was way too big of a file)

https://streamable.com/gzmjfl