Late Night with Missus Powell (NSFW)

But Solace! You already put out an update today! Did you really write all of that out just to spend ten hours on your day off redesigning Missus Powell?

Yes.

Hey guys, I should probably have waited to put this out for when we actually have an event with the new look, but I was so excited to showcase the redesign that I figured sleep could wait. For some background information, Missus Powell was the third character I ever added to the game. I wanted an older, motherly, MILF type character who would serve as the glue of the Academy. Her base model looked great out of the box, and at the time I didn't know how morphs worked along with the fact that I didn't own many. As a result, after she was made, she was largely untouched when the game first released.

There she is in all of her debut glory! Yeah... looking at it in hindsight really puts it into perspective for me. Anyway, around the time I decided to redo the original start of the game, I also decided that she needed a visual update. This was for a lot of reasons, but mostly because the lighting caused her skin to change color. You'll see what I mean in a minute. I wanted to standardize my lighting so that I could make renders faster rather than redoing the lighting every time I moved the camera. This led to Version 2 of Missus Powell:

You can see what I mean now about the lighting, right? That is the same skin tone, same hair color, same everything. I just fixed the lighting and then went on to adjust the facial structure since I now owned several morphs. This was... goodness, it must have been around five months into development? Almost a year if you count the time period I spent before releasing the game. I'd done minor touch-ups to Harper, Chrys, and Riley at this point, so I had more experience. I consider it a major upgrade over her first iteration.

The model looked a lot better in close ups, and her skin was now consistent over all of her renders, but I've been laying off major additions to her content because I still wasn't happy with her look. The better lighting exposed several key problems: one major one being that her skin is grey-tinted! The mouth was also a little too wide, the hair was flat, and somehow her new red lipstick looked pale. She also has this resting confused face... I don't know how to better explain it. Wondering if my worries were all in my head, I made that MILF Update patreon post asking what you all thought about Missus Powell. The consensus that I seemed to get is that, while no one found her ugly, no one found her particularly attractive. All of that leading to the last green tea infused ten hours of work:

The hair has color, the lipstick is bright red, and she looks as confident and as sexy as Queen Unbreakable should be! I gave her a light tan, and made some general fixes all around the face. Over a year in development, I finally own all of the tools I need to make adjustments like this as well as the experience necessary to improve the base model. While not perfect, I think this is by far the best iteration of Missus Powell yet. 

If you've ever wondered where some of the development time goes when I'm not making events, this is usually the culprit. This is the third major update to Missus Powell, but Chrys is on her fourth, Riley is on her fifth, and Harper as been touched up a record seven times - not to mention all of the side characters. A brand new character typically takes me 2-3 days to bring up to standard, and even then I often redo parts of them later down the line. This new model of Missus Powell should see use sometime in Version 0.65.

Anyway, I just wanted share this little insight into development behind the scenes and thank you all for your continued support. I try to improve the game every week, and I hope you all like the changes I'm making.