I am excited I just found you on BlueSky. I remember joining your forum back in 2000. Now I've been animating in games for 17 years and have 3 kids. Nice to see you've been having a good life also.

that was amazingly straightforward. thank you

So awesome! Really immerses the character in her world

Love that color bloom, great job!

you're handle game is on point. Everyone seems actually aesthetic in addition to functional. (I hate pulling handles)
You throwing with a profile rib, or freehanding the silhouette?

Love the snarl on "tell people", you might consider sprinkling in more mouth asymmetry throughout for more spice. The slow walk at the end feels too slow to glide, I think you would feel the side to side weight shift more. Eyes are solid, serious villain vibe, great job!

I work with some ex-thief devs, they have to talk themselves down from making a new thief every project. you ever find a pile of money I know some guys who are ready to go

Can you fit Kit Cloudkicker in there, or is it too cheezy? I was so into the sky surfing part of it back then

to be really cynical, with the brain worm running health, we'll get another pandemic soon enough so we can try again.
And I think it's playing into the fascists hands to focus on the head clown, when there's a whole project 2025 team systematically being evil while the the clowns got the spotlight

brilliant work!
How are you finding rigging and weighting in unreal?

I'll 2nd the agora tutorial. I also really liked "Unreal Engine Blueprint Game Developer" by Ben Tristem on Udemy cuz it breaks things into simple logical steps and walks you through it. It's also in UE4. But it's easy to get UE4 to learn, then switch to UE5 and find where they moved the buttons.

so there's some resources I've found useful. best of luck in finding a gig

this is a decent intro to getting animations into Unreal (I'd recommend downloading the version of unreal he's working in, then all the buttons are in the same place)
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'm an indie game animator. In indie teams there's no td, the modeler rigs, or you do. Advanced Skeleton is a good autorigger, with a face rig. NGskintools is better than maya skinning. Both tools are honor system so you can learn them and pay later. (I only ever wanted to animate, but competition)

congratulations! that sounds so hard and heart breaking (not to mention stabby). You have always struck me as a kind and thoughtful person and I'm sure you two will be beautiful parents. Best wishes and best of luck.

I did the same. Looked up a way to to mass unfollow everyone and started again just following people I wanted, and the people they followed. Would recommend, makes it funner. (don't remember how I did it though)

youtu.be/al9jfY7zOBY?...

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wow, you simming that cloth, or you dealing with a million bones?

hell yeah!! Great Job! stopmo forever