Developer Update #12 (Patreon)

1) General & Animations

Hi all, sorry for this being later than usual, work is going well but I still have so much to do. Animations are pretty much done and are looking good. And about the animations I've learnt a lot as I've been doing them - I wouldn't say they're a massive improvement on the animations in E1 but I think my skills are improving in a way where hopefully each episode will have slightly more detailed animations than the last. These last few weeks alone I've discovered so many great tools and tricks that are going to help me a lot in E3 and onwards and I really like doing my own animations rather than using premade ones for a couple of reasons:

Firstly I really value uniqueness in Elmwood and especially with things like how every girl has their unique sex position and corresponding animation for that. I think you'd start to notice if every girl had her legs in the exact same positions and same expresssions and I don't like the idea of that. The other reason is more logistical and it's just the fact that our protagonist is very tall (6'2) and most of the girls are much shorter (Molly is the shortest at 5'2). So the thing about premade animations is that they require the actors to be of the same or similar proportions to the actors they used to create the animation - usually a couple of fairly similar heights. Premade animations could definitely work for positions where height doesn't matter like cowgirl or just on the taller Elmwood girls like Ella (5'10). But then with Ella she is renowned for her flexibility and gymnastics skills so I want her to have animations that showcase her flexibility because it's hot, it's unique and it's her. Not really sure why I'm ranting so much about animations but just wanted to give some insight into why I value doing them myself because some people have given me suggestions (very good suggestions) to use premade animations because they're quick and high quality. And they are... but they're not unique. So my goal is to do my own animations and improve my own skills so that they just get better and quicker to make while retaining their uniqueness.

2) Post E2 Survey

Less about animations and more about sex in general but in the post E2 survey there will be a very big focus on sex specific preferences. I'm going to include a lot of questions about things like whether you prefer the faster or slower animations, the POV or side view ones, how important the foreplay or post sex animations (like animated creampies) are and things like that. I might also have questions regarding things like who has your favourite vagina... Sounds weird but Elmwood will inevitably share my preferential biases on things and so I want to know your preferences too. For example I prefer girls shaved but I know lots of people like some bush. So I need some data on things like this and this will help determine things like how many side characters shave their pubic hair, how many have innie/outie vaginas, breast sizes etc etc. As I've mentioned in other posts this survey will be optional in every question - meaning you only have to answer the ones you want to weigh in on. I'm also going to have some questions on things you haven't seen in the game yet... like threesomes, anal etc.

3) Posts from this week & next

This week we had some insight into the 6 new perks coming in E2. As this is what you voted for in the poll I hope that it's what you were looking for but if anything is unclear about those please know you can always comment any questions and I'll answer. Further to this if there are any perks in particular that you want to hear about you can comment on any post including this with what you want to hear about. Next week I might show you the cool visual effect & a example of the perk Eclipse or I might talk about the Academic perk tree. Let me know if you have a preference or Ill just choose one of those or a different random perk to discuss.

Also this week I showed a preview of Lydia in E2, obviously she's not a new character but for the sake of variety I thought it would be nice to see her again. Most of your time in E2 will of course be with the new characters but I also have a gorgeous render of Ella that I'll likely show you next week and then back to the new E2 characters until I finish E2 (which will hopefully still be this month but it will be extremely tight with everything I'm trying to put in).

Also in the perk preview on the 3 extension perks I went on a bit of an essay about how pregnancy options will work in the game, please check that out if you are interested because it's something people ask about semi regularly.

Hope you all have a good week ahead,

WW