art update: I can do it! (Patreon)

Boom!  And suddenly it was the 20th. Time still goes by way too fast and that's something I'm saying while we're still in the first month of seriously working on the first build for  book 4. It's only going to get worse so I'm trying to set up things between me and the coder in such a way we can work more efficiently. 

That mostly entails setting some extra groundrules and me being as anal as I possibly can in the way I deliver the art to him, very structured and no shortcuts which might seem easier in the moment but can create misunderstandings/errors down the road.

I'm feeling a lot(x100) more pumped than in my last art update. Created some(a lot) more stuff and also been reworking  some things I made earlier as I became aware of a problem.  Basically I turned Asami into "fat monica". I could sorta notice there was something off, but didn't know exactly what. 

When I showed her to the coder he was like "Hey man, that's cool and all but could you maybe make her waste slimmer?"

So I took a good look at it and yep, she could stand to lose more than a couple of pounds. I'm pretty certain a fat Asami is someone's fetish but....most will probably prefer her thinner version.

Asami has  always been a black spot in my mind. I'm sure there's a lot of people who like her, but to me she never really clicked. She was there and did whatever she did in the cartoon, but left pretty much zero impression upon me. Maybe I was unconsciously fattening her up, in an effort to give her more substance  :) ? *badumm tssssh*

I also reworked a face idle for another character. Coder thought it was spot on, but when I finally did some real screenshots next to my drawing I noticed some discrepancies. I friggin love artists how can "copy" a style/face like it's nothing. Those people are my gods.

Reworking earlier stuff is only a very small part of what I've been doing though. let me show you an idle which I've created recently. Don't expect any more of these sneak peeks in the future though. I'm having enough trouble forcing myself to show you just this much!

Anyway, I'm getting close to finishing what I was thinking would be enough for a first build of book 4, but some of the Korra scenes are a bit too.. hardcore for a first build so the coder has asked me for some other "build-up" scenes. It's not work gone to waste, but I was already planning on something else and that'll have to be put on the back burner for now.

Oh well...

The new scenes the coder has asked for included more clothes, but I think I can work my "pervy magic" on it anyway. First couple of animation testruns for the new scene I'm working on is looking pretty nice even if I do say so myself.I've also been creating slapping animations which I'm testing waaaay more than necessary...    for reasons : )

Other than that, I've got a thousand ideas and things I want to do and a milion requests from the coder to work on. He recently sent me a list with a first build plan and I immediately had to mail him back expressing my strong doubts whether that was feasible. Passion and ambition is something the coder has a lot of but sometimes I gotta put on the brakes and keeps things in the realm of what we can actually do.

Honestly, a lot of the work is deciding what we WON'T do and being sad because of it. Doing everything we want would result in a  convoluted mess.  Well.. either that or an unacceptable timespan for it to be finished. We already feel way too guilty about having the first build for book 4 to probably be taking two months and have no desire to turn that into a habit.

I'm pretty much constantly glued to my pc as it is(which I recently set up in another room). I used to pretty much always have to turn on the lights every day all day since the room  I was working in was so damn dark. Now it's in a room where I have some real sunlight! My vampiric days are over!