A More Fitting Chest

Based on the original, I thought her pose and attitude really deserved a larger chest.

Extras | [gif version] • Source: ??? [/r/randomsexiness]

It's being resized, so view full. There are so many masks making shadows / light that it became really difficult to remember what was where. Looking back at the original, the shadows I made were not really aligned with what was actually in the picture, but, eh, close enough. Usually I take pictures where the chest is already big, shrink them and then make them larger to make the expansion part bigger. In this one, she started pretty small to begin with, so I had to make up a lot of the chest, which is why there were so many shadow/light layers.

Sacrifice

Imagine if rich folk could buy attributes from illegal sources - I imagine this would happen all the time:

Extras | [tiny gif] • Source: ???

I forgot how annoying Mesh Warp is to use for something like this, probably should have gone a different route. I decided to not just do a simple shrink/grow, so the perspective changes on each of them a bit, like the shoulders lining up and the background arms changing alignment. Probably the best touch was the shoes though, that really sells it.

Extra Bounce

I saw this loop on reddit, people were saying there wasn't much "bounce", so I wanted to see what actually was there.

• Source: Melissa Rauch - Conan Interview

I didn't actually add bounce, I just multiplied what was there. I forget how long ago it was but there was a really interesting video on youtube about amplifying motion to videos, so I tried to do a really simple version of that.

Snow White's Potion

It's not Halloween - too bad.

Extras | [<2mb gif] • Source: ??? [imgur]

Face Tracking

This was more about seeing if I could do something like this more than anything else. Once it was done it just made me kind of sad.

• Source: Busty Buffy (Lucie Wilde)

I only messed with the face, nothing else. You might think that this was done with just a single liquify, but that's creates a big problem when she turns her face. If it was one liquify effect, I'd have to adjust the displacement map every time she turns.
Instead I tracked the face with details, then adjusted the layer so it stabilized her face. Then using 3 liquify effects: Left side, Right side, and vertical; I made some expressions that turn up and down the liquify effects' percentages based on the tracked face details (like turning left and right). For example, when she turns to her left, the liquify effect on that side basically turns off.

Season

Fun with the puppet tool!

Extras | [gif version] [tiny gif] • Source: Amakano ~Second Season~ img 160 in part 1/2

As promised, here are the .psd file and .aep file if you want to pick it apart. They were made with PS2018 and AE2018, so it is highly possible older version will not correctly open the files, but I'm not sure. The .psd file is pretty self explanatory, but the .aep file is how I just work. I did most of the work in the "Assemble" composition, then did some of the final touches in Assemble 2 & 3. I use expressions... a lot, so if you look at something and are thoroughly confused, look at the expressions to see what it's doing.

The .aep file references the .psd file so you'll need both - putting them in the same place should let AE auto-find the .psd file, but in the event it doesn't it will yell at you saying it can't find 10 things. You can point the 10 layers to the .psd file within AE in the Projects area under the e_hon12LI_A Layers folder. Right click on the layer, replace footage, file - then select the .psd file. I don't know if you'll need to repeat this for each one or not.

What takes so long?

Nobody asked, but I'm going to answer the question: What takes so long?

What I enjoy doing is rigging up all these animations and watching them work - up to a point at least. In the beginning of the video you can see the original cutout from the still image. After much time in photoshop I've re-painted pretty much everything so I have a lot of cutouts to use.
On the right what you see is the animation all being driven off of a single point, which is what I drag around to show you how it moves. There's quite a few really subtle things nobody would really think of until they have to actually animate one of these things. Such as when the nipple goes above the breast it has to re-draw the outer line, little details like that. Recreating just the breast is 7 layers.

Now you know! My plan is to release the .psd file and .aep file when I finish this one so other people can really play with it to see how it all works.

Tight(er) Gray Shirt

Angles, angles, angles.

Extras | [gif version] [tiny gif] • Source: ???

This is the first time I've done an angle like this. I wanted to try and do what I kept referring to as "perspective bounces" - and that was nice, but ate way too much time for what it turned out. Basically, since her chest is turned so much, I distorted it so it was angled back as if she was standing forward, applied all the effects, then distorted it back to the original perspective. It added a lot of time to the rendering and general work flow, but did look nice. I just don't think it was worth it when using a slightly smaller bounce for the chest further back is much easier and pretty much looks the same.

Next up is: Amakano ~Second Season~ image 160 in part 1/2.

Window Watcher

I wanted to experiment with the idea of replacing the Reshape Effect within the script to Liquify - ended up messing up a bit so the tutorial will have to be done later.

Extras | no gif, only mp4. • Source: Girlfolio

This does use the J&G script, but has many additional things added on. That being said, almost all of the added on features use the expressions/control added by the script making my life a lot easier.

Also, finally fixed the random post thing over on the right to be https, so now we're all secure up in here.

Jiggle and Grow 4 Script Release

The Jiggle and Grow Script has made it out of beta! While I'm not ready to tell people of it's existence yet, outside of this blog anyway, because the last time I released a major version a major bug was found within an hour and many people thought it just didn't work. (How was I supposed to know everyone would delete all the starting keyframes?) Plus I haven't made the advanced tutorial.

The script is available for download here.
Walkthrough videos are available for download through the J&G page. If you run into any bugs, please let me know and I'll try to get them fixed asap.

To the people that use v3, please be aware this version has changed out you apply the Effects, it's much more lenient now and should make more sense once you see how it works.