or  “Things I’ve had to deal with while working on Common Grounds…”

Chief among them has been the 3D program, Anim8tor.

It’s not entirely bad, in fact I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to make 3D. It has the most simple and straight-forward user interface I have ever seen for this kind of software, and that’s saying something!

That said, there are certain issues.

* Can’t animate 2 or more characters together

Every time you see multiple characters in a sex scene, each character had to be hand-animated separately. This translates into constant flipping back and forth from the individual characters to the scene to make sure they interact properly, and to avoid the dreaded “his hand is going through that guy’s chest!” situations.

* Can’t animate characters in the background scene

Character animations are rendered separately from the background sets. Why?! Because the program crashes otherwise. And when I am able to sneak them in, it becomes too slow to really use.

What this means: certain camera angles can’t happen. If someone’s legs are bent over and hidden by a bed, they’ll show over it since the character’s renders are layered on top of the background.

It also means I have to hand-draw character shadows. And copy paste the lighting and try and match the cameras and blah blah, but what really irks me is:

 * No “Jiggle Physics”

 I can’t make the bouncy jiggles magic ;_;