Halloween Art

Hi.

Time for a Halloween art post!

This month was a mixed bag. I started off great and I tried to keep that momentum going but I ended up exactly where I never wanted to be again. I had a repeat of what happened to me in July and it sucked big time. I won’t dwell on it; I’m just glad to be functional again and that it resolved a bit faster than last time. The next six months for me are about production and personal health. 

On the good news front, I am feeling better and I have word processed a bunch of written notes, added more assets to the 3D system, and added the last chunk of the two friends route to the script. I have also streamlined some of the choices in this area, removing some and merging others. I am making most of the same changes in the html version in parallel. 

The choice tracking is fully implemented in the demo and about a quarter of the other scripts. I also used some of my down time to watch tutorials to try and up my art game a bit.

As I finish up the initial coding stage and switch to art and writing, I have tried to make as many assets as possible that fit into the story. For Halloween there are a couple spooky renders as well as me testing other styles again with a fuller asset library in an attempt to find clothing and hairstyles with as few flaws as possible. I have several styles that look amazing from one direction only. After playing around a bit, I’ve reaffirmed one of my earlier choices for Taylor’s secondary hairstyle which is shown in most of the renders. Recently I have worked on scenes for Craig’s route and for some never before seen content.

I also want to add some graphics to show Taylor’s influence, most notably for the Taylor vs Taylor content. The effects range from a subtle pink mist up to more like what is shown with the succubus dark angel renders in this post. 

Other render examples include the pink camo for the two/three friends route. I am excited to be able to exercise to much creative freedom as I improve as a 3D artist.

Posts should be more frequent from here on since producing art gives me more to post and more excuses to post.

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope next month is finally boulder pushing time so there will be substantial updates coming before the end of the year.

Thanks for your support and patience! I appreciate every single one of you that has contributed to the project!