On Silence, Restarting, a Garage, and the Future

Every since work on The Secret Checkup 2 has resumed and was finished, I have been very lax with communication on all platforms, for which I humbly offer my apologies. Secondly, thank you for sticking around and your patience!

The past few months have been very labour intensive, with lots of online drama which has surpassed most, but let's just say some things have happened and have gone away. I've absolutely not been sitting still and have worked hard on (literally) background work for future projects. Because Star✩Screamers is set in a loose interpretation of the GTA HD universe, I wanted to create unique settings within that universe. As some of you know, the garage they use I recreated beforehand with simple props, but I was not satisfied with this. Not at all. Immediately after finishing The Secret Checkup 2 I started learning 3D modelling and learning how to implement this in the game.

(can you spot Susy Wender?)

I felt the need to create a completely new garage from the ground up in an anonymous building that has had at least some significance in the game. After a few trial and errors, I wound up at a building called 'Pacific Bait Warehouse' in GTA Online, which was remote enough, but not cut off. Small enough, but not too large. Not too close to the sea to have rusting issues, but just right. A little goldilocks zone for a garage fit for a little crew to work on a handful of projects while trying to mind their business.

From the few screenshots here you can see I wanted to go for a full professional look, together with proper textures with bump mapping and specular mapping, vertex paint, light effects, etc. The only thing I didn't do was dirt decals, but I think that can come either later, or just think, despite the mess, the place is pretty sanitary.

In due time, I will probably create more unique interiors to use in my comics, as characters need housing and so on as well. However, because of my almost sleepless nights the past few months, just trying to learn through trial and error, I can do this much quicker now and will probably only increase in speed and efficiency.

As for housing, I guess one character could be residing in here. I think the interior of the sleeping quarters would already give away who would be the inhabitant...

For now, I will return to drawing slowly, because this place needs to be used for stuff (and I promise, it won't just be cars, because I know why you perverts are here!). For those interested to use this in their own game or FiveM server: this garage will become available via Gumroad next week, with Patreons receiving a discount when released. Not sure about the costs yet, but this has probably cost me a year of two of my life the way my body feels. A few hours of sleep per day for a few months isn't exactly optimal.

By the way, on the subject of perversion, I'm also seriously contemplating to create a certain dentistry interior model for the same purpose. To use in comics... And on that bombshell...

P.s. I will also be releasing an older comic that was previously available in Japanese via print only via Patreon. Let's say it's Kythera related...