Hello, everyone!
The progress train keeps on chugging along with Overbreed. This week finds us just at the edge of concluding the first segment of Sequence C - I probably could have wrapped it up tonight, but I want to start rolling my sleep schedule back. Going to bed at 4AM and waking up at noon is losing its luster, to say nothing of the fact I have a friend's birthday party this Sunday and they want to start doing things around 10AM, so I need to spend the next few days trying to make that feasible.
With that being said, I ha...
2021-09-18 07:42:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
If you read last week's belated Progress Report, then you're likely aware of how hectic of a week I had last week. And it probably won't surprise you to learn I haven't made any measurable progress on Overbreed since that post was made on Tuesday.
Indeed, Tuesday was spent making the posted animation. Wednesday was a regularly-schedule streaming day. Thursday is my scheduled day off. And then today, Friday, I decided to spend finally working on the Blue Star bible that I mentioned several months ago, see...
2021-09-11 10:17:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
So, you may have noticed this title says September 3, and it's being posted on September 7.
Yeahhh... I originally intended to post this on Friday, but the renders for this week's 43-second WIP ended up taking a lot longer than I expected, and by the time they were finished I needed to go to bed.
My parents were visiting Saturday, so I didn't even bother trying to post it then. But then they surprised me by staying overnight in town and visiting on Sunday as well. So my plans to post on Sunday were ...
2021-09-07 08:24:36 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
What is this? A Friday progress report, actually being posted on Friday? And more Overbreed WIP animation, to boot?! Why, this can only mean one thing! Aardvark ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶o̶b̶o̶t̶!̶ must be feeling better!
And indeed, this is the case. Thank fucking God for that.
Before we get into the update, though: Cli...
2021-08-28 06:37:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I apologize for being a few days late for this week's progress report. Or I guess a few days early, depending on your perspective. This is the make-up for missing Friday August 20th's progress report. There. Let's go with that.
Health Update
As you all may or may not be aware, a few weeks ago I had what I believed to be food poisoning, and it took me out for the better part of a week. In the two weeks since, I've been riding a rollercoaster of varying symptoms at various intensities. Somet...
2021-08-22 21:30:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
In last week's Progress Report I made note that I was sick at the time, and I was hoping to be able to put together a belated Progress Report. Unfortunately, it wasn't until Wednesday that I was feeling well enough to do so. And since I stream on Wednesdays, that means it wasn't until Thursday I was actually free to make a post - and at that point, I decided I might as well wait until Friday'...
2021-08-14 05:10:48 +0000 UTC
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Hey all. Short progress report, no picture today. It's been a hella whacky week, ending on being really sick this weekend with some mysterious ailment. I'm on the mend, but still not better.
I haven't made much progress on Overbreed, but have instead been hopping around on some side projects. One of them was planned, the other not - and, because this is just the way the universe goes, the unplanned one made further progress.
The reason why I decided to focus on these side-projects is I was originally going to be spending this wee...
2021-08-07 17:53:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
This post is a day late, but I think that you all can understand why, given the fact this is one of two posts, the other of which is a public announcement that I've written today.
In comparison to that big post, which you all should read, this one's mercifully quite short!
I mentioned in the last Progress Report that the writing for Overbreed Episode 1 was nearing completion, and th...
2021-07-31 21:29:19 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: September 13, 2022 - OVERBREED Episode 0 released!
The prequel-cum-preview (heh) setting up the miniseries can be watched by clicking here!
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Hello, everyone!
A few days ago, I made this announcement Tweet. Now, I am making and pinning its correlated public Patreon post.
I've been writing the high-level of this for over a year now. And as my Patrons know, I've had my nose...
2021-07-31 21:29:15 +0000 UTC
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I'm too depressed to write a progress report.
Progress is moving. Slower than I'd like, but moving.
Hopefully next week I'll have something more eventful.
2021-07-24 21:19:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Another day-late progress report. I apologize. I considered making this post last night, but I was right on the knife's edge of consequential progress, that I decided to delay a day and have more to report.
And what a report it is! The long and short of it is, Overbreed Episode 1 is almost finished with writing. As I have discussed before, Overbreed Ep1 is composed of 4 elements: three sex sequences (referred to internally as Sequences A, B, and C), and the narrative superstructure built around t...
2021-07-18 06:28:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey all.
Sorry for not posting this earlier. Trying to ease back my sleep schedule, was too late last night.
The Mercy x Sombra sequence is ALMOST done. It's literally only got, like, 2 elements left that need to be revised, and then a final editing pass over everything. I actually thought Wolves and I were done the other day, but during my look-over pass I saw some elements that sorely stuck out from the rest, and need to get hammered into place.
We're planning to tackle that this weekend....
2021-07-10 19:50:10 +0000 UTC
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Hello once more, everyone!
I don't have much to show this week, because I've been spending it writing. And boy howdy, have I been writing.
I've had this project on my mind for a very long time, and as a consequence of that, my mind has had a lot of time to sit and process the idea, and relevant to this discussion, a lot of time to flesh it out. But I didn't quite realize just how much my mind has fleshed things out, until I sat down to actually collect references and begin writing.
2021-07-03 09:42:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Not too much to report for this week, really. I finished up and released Mercy and Zarya over on Twitter and my website, and quickly put together this proof-of-concept animation that is this post's video.
I still have to tackle Sombra's outfit. Really not looking forward to that.
As you can tell, the Mercy and Zarya outfits have a fair bit of clipping going on. I'm definitely going to need to clean those up, but I am not too worried about it right now. Fraternization had even worse ...
2021-06-26 08:18:58 +0000 UTC
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Runtime - 4:02
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BordeauxBlack - Femshep
OolayTiger - Miranda
TonedeafLewdness - Sound Design
Ordagon & DancesWithWolves - Feedback & Support
LordAardvark - Writing, directing, animating, editing
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Hey everyone!
It's time for Fraternization to go public, and 2160p!
2021-06-19 20:27:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
It's been a week! Of course, the Mass Effect short Fraternization released to early access on Monday, to resoundingly positive feedback (and making almost exactly twice its production cost in new + upgraded pledges - wow! I consider just breaking even to be a resounding success!). And then in the days interim, I've been working on a handful of smaller projects as I collect my notes for the next project.
I discussed my thoughts in last week's Progress Report, but I am locking it in now: O...
2021-06-19 08:50:25 +0000 UTC
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RUNTIME: 4:02
CLICK HERE TO WATCH - Click the gear, choose the resolution, log into your Patreon to unlock it.
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Hello, everyone!
The late "Mass Effect Legendary Edition woo!" video is released! Took me almost exactly 4 weeks to produce 5 minutes of animation, up to (and hopefully exceeding) the level of quality and polish you all have come to expect of my work.
This is absolutely t...
2021-06-14 22:35:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
So I'm going to quickly address the Rachel/Chaos project, just to get it out of the way. The long and short of it is this: The Rachel/Chaos project is being shelved indefinitely.
There's a few reasons for it, but the primary reason is that the voice talent that I had cast for Rachel has been having an extremely difficult time with her schedule this year. We've been constantly rescheduling an off-the-record one-hour voice-coaching effort since January 27 - that's 4 and a half months of constant rescheduli...
2021-06-12 08:28:43 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Sorry for being late in posting this. I was going to post yesterday, but time got away from me and it was past 3AM before I realized it. So I yeeted straight to bed. And I was going to post this earlier today, but I had my evening plans interrupted by a combination of a false fire alarm and then friends wanting to play games way too late.
Today's WIP is still pretty rough, but it's coming along. I've gotten all of the sex-scene animation done - detail motions, lip-syncing, and facial animation. There's a few rough...
2021-06-06 08:51:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
This past week has been uncharacteristically productive, in the best way possible! All week I've been able to put out daily renders of the project, with noticeable improvements on each. I've put together a small 30-second clip of the project, back-to-back with each of these dailies, so you all can see and hear just how quickly progress has moved this past week.
You can watch the video by clickin...
2021-05-29 09:55:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Before getting into the details of what all got done this week, after handling dozens of private messages and comments asking about old video links being dead, I have finally taken it upon myself to go through all of the existing Patreon videos and update their links to the new Films page, along with instructions on how to choose the correct resolution your Patronage (and the uploaded video) allows. If I missed any, please don't hesitate to send me a link to them so I can fix them.
With that out of the way, my we...
2021-05-22 10:29:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
No news on the Rachaos front, but as the video for this post might give away, I have something else in the oven!
As you all likely know, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition came out this week. I wanted to make a quick Mass Effect project to celebrate it, but I unfortunately spent most of the past week just spinning my wheels trying to come up with a good project.
By the time I came up with something I was satisfied with, it was already Tuesday - there was simply no way to get it done by Thursday! BUT!...
2021-05-15 07:34:54 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
It's been a milestone week on the Rachel/Chaos project: I have finally finished all of the montage sex sequences, and have begun work on the unique animations.
I have also found a new mechanism that seems to work quite well for reigning in my procrastination: unplugging my Ethernet.
Click here for a 58-second video showing off a bunch of new animation! The bulk of this seq...
2021-05-08 10:10:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Since I've had at least one new Patron message me about this, that suggests to me there's at least 10 new Patrons silently wondering the same: my website, LordAardvark.com, is currently unavailable. Seeing as that is the source of the majority of the Patreon rewards, notably access to films and comics, this has been a source of confusion for many, and I apologize.
I suspect it is related to the fact Patreon started charging people for the end-of-month pay cycle, and my website int...
2021-05-02 10:09:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone.
Unfortunately, I don't have much to report. It's not been a good week for productivity. I made marginal progress on Rachaos, but I think I ended up losing more ground than I made. Ended up scrapping one of the animations I had made for it, and need to build a new one.
I've found a potential reference, but I just haven't been able to motivate myself to build it. There's no external factor for the lack of motivation, it's just something that happens sometime.
I intend to unplug my Ethernet all Sunday to force my...
2021-05-01 09:28:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
Sorry this is late. I started writing it before going to bed, but it soon became 5AM and I had to call it quits and go to bed. That being said: another week, another progress report. Let's jump straight into it.
Rachaos
I was hoping to have more work on Rachaos done by today, but my Wednesday schedule got wrecked and that kinda cascaded and ruined Thursday and Friday too. So I didn't get what I wanted done.
With that being said, this week has been focused on building the finisher animations f...
2021-04-24 20:27:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey all.
Not much to report, really. It's been a stressful, technical week. Majority of the focus has been on updating the Rachel model being used to include the new DazV5.5 flexes, which I showcased last week. I then needed to write a tool pipeline for transferring the animation and all of the related baggage from the older model to the new model in all of the existing animation. And then finally I had to get the new morphs transferred to the outfit, which was FAR more trouble than it had any right to be.
Outfit...
2021-04-17 10:52:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
It's a wonderful, beautiful Friday. Well, technically it's 27 minutes past midnight into Saturday as of writing this sentence, and timezones are a fuck, but you get the idea.
As you all may or may not know, I finally finished the DVa comic, Data Collection, earlier this week. If you missed that, you can read the final 15 pages a week early by clicking here. This is part...
2021-04-10 07:57:17 +0000 UTC
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I've had people ask me about why the 2020 Schedule was still pinned, all the way in April 2021. I've had people say it looks bad to have it pinned so long. I've had people say it makes it look like I don't care, and that I should replace it.
So I have replaced it, as you can tell. And as you can tell, it doesn't have any actually useful content. That probably makes it look like I don't care. And you know what?
I really don't.
To be perfectly clear, I absolutely love each and every one of you, my Patrons. An...
2021-04-07 05:38:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
It's been a milestone week! I have finally finished editing all 30 bloody pages of the DVa comic. Now I just have to finalize the renders and composite the shots.
I've released pages 13-15 today, leaving exactly half the comic left to be made. 15 pages. I've been able to (barely) scrape together 3 pages every Friday for the past few weeks, but it literally takes me all day.
It is possible that I will have the entire release-worthy by this time next Friday. ...
2021-04-03 09:09:45 +0000 UTC
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