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Squash Match preview: 173

Added 2018-01-04 21:39:19 +0000 UTC

A little behind-the-scenes stuff, for anyone who's interested:

173. That's the number of Squash Match renders I have, ready to go, on my desktop, not counting alternate or deleted renders that I don't plan on using.

The average length of the last four Squash Match chapters (not including intros, outros, title pages, deleted renders, bonus content or recaps) is 98. So right now, I have enough renders ready for 1.765 Squash Match chapters. So, you ask, why are you holding out on us?

Well, it's not that simple. See, Squash Match as a series, since I took over the story in Squash Match 4 and expanded the story outside of the ring, jumps around a lot. There are a lot of short scenes, sometimes consisting of just 1 or 2 images, that fill out the story. I usually do the big, fun, sexy scenes first and then go in and do the more boring stuff later.

For various reasons, it's often easier to take, say, an old bank scene from two chapters ago and make Ann bigger than it is to re-import an already embiggened Ann from another scene. I'm not always 100% accurate when I change Ann's settings, so that's why her growth isn't always 100% linear throughout the series.

Also, sometimes I'm not entirely happy with how renders turn out. It's pretty common to render an entire batch, only to realize that the lighting, or some other detail, isn't quite how I wanted it to be. If I'm short on time sometimes I'll call it good, but otherwise I like to go back and fix it. For instance, I'm re-rendering a couple of finished scenes because Ann's face is almost entirely shadowed in some of them. And I'm planning on re-rendering the entirety of a very long scene because *gasp* I accidentally made Ann's breast size a bit smaller than it had been for the last 1-2 chapters. Oops!

So it's not like I have Squash Match 8 completed; it's more like I have two Squash Match chapters that are 75% completed each. Or, more accurately, 75% completed each in terms of the renders. Writing the story and photoshopping is also a big part of the process.