The Ixarians of Delura needed a complete re-do. Not because I felt the old models were unusable, but because the old models were a huge pain in the ass to work with. Charlie doesn't appear in EP 005.04, but I needed the master Ixarian template ready so that I mod up some Ixarian extras as needed to put some diversity into my scenes.

Delura EP 005.04 is now in production! And it only took me almost a whole year to get around to it. Yay! Fu drinks responsibly... because being not somewhat drunk at her job would make her want to kill someone.

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Just me using my archaic paint program to complete a Delura Render Comic. I hand-paint a lot more crap than I probably should... I probably could have avoided the continuity errors of Ivan's injured arm swapping sides between comics if I had bothered to texture the blood in instead of painting it.

Something to look at while waiting for the next comic to come out.

At least that's what people who don't use IKBooster think. I know it is a diversion from the usual Newgrounds content I publish but I figured I'd show what i've been working on as a kind of "behind the scenes" look at the kinds of things that are being utilized for the Delura project. What do you guys think of the promo video?

I hope to get back to regular content for Newgrounds in the near future!

I've been hard at work doing commercial tutorial content related to the animation system that Delura uses. I know, not the most exciting stuff to be talking about on Newgrounds, but it is something that really needs to get done. Unfortunately the iteration of the LW software that IKBooster was implemented, zero documentation and learning resources were provided and still are not available to this day... so I decided it was time to change that by creating this manual, and the commercial training content will bring in some much needed revenue.

I will be taking a break from this training materials after publishing my 2 hours worth of content hopefully by this weekend.

Nomomomomomom!

Dijard has absolutely no problem with the horrible mistakes made from improper rotational operations.

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Also, I recently published a 50-minute behind the scenes feature for those who didn't see the previous post. Yeah I know it is "pay" content and people tend to be phobic of any self promotion or the idea of actually paying artists for anything but give it a look and if you like the idea of taking a peek behind the curtain on one of the few independently produced 3d animated series's out there, then it might just be interesting.

Anyhow, back to work on this latest comic, I need to get the publication schedule back on track!

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Totaling a runtime of 50 minutes, this behind the scenes 2-parter is now complete so grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy a nerd’s obsession with indie 3d filmmaking! If anyone would like to pitch in to receive the video, please check out this page for details on the video content itself and how to get it!

All proceeds will be re-invested into the Delura project. Don't worry, the majority of Delura core content will remain free to watch either here on Newgrounds or wherever we post content at.