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Boy, sorry for taking so long on this one. I had most of the animation done for a few weeks, but ran into some oddities with the rig around the front legs that I couldn’t find a solution for some time. Seems to be all good now though.
 
The grass hasn’t really changed since last time. Still the same models being emitted from the dirt plane. But I completely overhauled the tree model, as I did get a few comments saying that the tree really doesn’t look like an apple tree based on how the branches were sprouting out. And yeah, they were right.
 
The animation itself is the main focus, of course. Once again, it’s mostly to make sure the rig is working properly (and seeing that I encountered that oddity earlier, I’m glad I did this). And seeing the front leg reaching out so far like this wouldn’t have been possible with the old body topology without some jank looking deformations. around the chest. Now it looks a lot more natural.
 
The facial rigging hasn’t changed much since last time, but it’s my second go at animating them, this time with more aggressive facial expressions and rapid shifts between expressions mixed in there as well.
 
The hair is still being manually keyframed, as it is still the best way for me to animate the hair and keep the hair looking the way I want it to. Manual animation for all the follow-through is still a bit tricky, and it always will be, but the results are always better than any other method of animation I could choose at this time.
 
 
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Peppermints

Oh woah, it’s so smooth and expressive! Best I’ve seen using 3D models. Must take a shitton of work to get all those small details moving correctly.
Dsiak
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@Aquabad  
I would deal with it as if it is nothing but a glorified fimfic and truly enjoy it for the visuals alone and maybe for the obvious self-insert.
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@Aquabad  
I remember this. Fortunately, there are much better stories in existence where humans and ponies interact. Project: Sunflower and The Maretian come to mind.
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@Blakkwaltz  
Uuuh, I’m not sure how to answer that, it’s a bit of a weird non-specific question. I guess your asking for stuff like Sample count, denoise settings, stuff like that? I don’t exactly remember the sample count I used, but I believe it was something like 256 for AJ herself and 128 for the background, default denoise settings. Not sure if there’s anything else you’d want to know.
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Since I’ve learned like this because I’m the one beginner then making a short animation, until sometimes someone gets me such a fool on here.