Welcome to the lobby (Patreon)

Hey, all... here's a quick Zero Day update: a peek at the entrance Lobby of the Nanti Strides, the starship that you, the player, will travel on to Boink. 

This is another Blender render, and believe it or don't, this is straight out of the render rip with no retouching. 3D scenery with character art on flat transparent planes in the scene. It was an experiment, and I think it worked. I will likely do more of this. 

Also, while the shading and toning on Cobalt is painted onto his character art, the lighting on the two desk attendants is actually generated in Blender, through the use of emission maps. The Delos at left has one which provides the facial light, and the Foozle at right has two separate ones for the facial light and the blue backlight. 

Those of you on the Skypad discord server also got to hear a snippet of the audio for this scene, complete with crowd noises and light background jazz. 

Incidentally, if you're not on the discord server, you should be. 

This link should be good for the next seven days:

https://discord.gg/wGnCyTva

There are discussion boards for talking about all things Boink-related, a Foozle gallery, a public gallery for posting your own art to, and the recording booth where I dump audio stuff I've been working on.

A number of patrons are already there, but I just want to repeat that it's there, and open to all of you, so come on over if you want. 

Cheers.