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Ready for Release!

Nov. 17th, 2025

This week it is release week for Blender 5.0 and that means Storm will release this week as well! In order to release with a bang, I've been working on some promotional content including an article, promo- and an instruction video. I'm stoked to finally release it to you guys!

Rik Schutte
Rik Schutte Project Lead

I've been working on the promo content for Storm's release later this week. Check out the final animation for Storm's expressions here:

Expression test: Lighting pass
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Expression test: Lighting pass

Expression test: Spline pass
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Expression test: Spline pass


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Oct. 23rd, 2025
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This week Demeter and Rik have been working part time on Storm for the release in November. Final tweaks, polishing and bugfixing have been the main tasks and it's looking sharp! Next to that, there has been a promo video in the making, showing of the character expressions and a quick demo of the rig in general. This will be released together with Storm in november. Stay tuned!

Rik Schutte
Rik Schutte Project Lead

Check out the promo animation blocking here and a fresh video log!

Video Log #6: Promo video
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Video Log #6: Promo video

Expressions promo video: blocking pass
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Expressions promo video: blocking pass


Widgets

Aug. 29th, 2025
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We're in the final stages of this asset production, adding widgets to the face and polishing the shapes for more niceness!!

Rik Schutte
Rik Schutte Project Lead

This week it was finally time to make the controls nice and clean. With the help of Demeter's Cloudrig, that comes with a bunch of premade bone widgets, i was able to make a nice and convenient setup. Check the video for a short demo!

Video Log #5: Widgets
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Video Log #5: Widgets

Facial rigging WIP Blend file (5.0)
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Facial rigging WIP Blend file (5.0)


Shape Keys

July 15th, 2025

This week it was finally time to start implementing shape keys. Starting with the mouth corners and using the Pose Shape Key addon made in-house by Demeter Dzadik, I was able to get some great shapes and implementation for it. However it happened that due to Blender 5.0 updates, some features got neglected, so until the addon has been updated accordingly we have to wait for this to be solved. Meanwhile I was able to continue creating shape keys for the brows, cheeks and lips which can be seen in the new video vlog below! Enjoy the watch!

I'll be on holidays for the next 2 weeks, so no updates to be uploaded. After this we'll jump back into the project and provide you with some new juicy content! Stay tuned!

Rik Schutte
Rik Schutte Project Lead

Watch the new production video log #4 here! Plus some bonus content of testing the rig for several expressions. Let me know what you guys think! Cheers!

Facial Rig: Squash Test (wip)
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Facial Rig: Squash Test (wip)

Early Expression Test (wip)
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Early Expression Test (wip)

Video Log #4: Shape Keys
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Video Log #4: Shape Keys


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