Layering, mistakes and mastur.. (Patreon)

This is the first art update of what hopefully will become a nice diversion from playing the game itself.

I'll be telling you a bit about what I'm currently doing and what I want to do. Since this is the beginning I'm still figuring out whether more and small updates are better than fewer with more content and what to include and not so expect me to waver a bit as I find my way around.  

Edit: Having said that, if there's a clear preference from patrons one way or the other that's most likely the way it's going to be! So don't be shy and let me know what you prefer.

Soooo.... what have I been doing since the release of our first build? Mostly worrying whether people would like what we've created so far. The art is the first thing everyone sees and I can tell you a drawing seldomly feels finished and ready to me. Still, if I'd want it to be perfect (which I couldn't do anyway) we would still be in the beginning stages.

But enough about that! This is the art update, not the complain update!

I'm currently working on a scene where Katara is masturbating. It's one of the scenes which will be unique to the love route. If you've unlocked enough scenes you know we prefer to throw a little movement in  and small movements  are harder to get right than broad arm swinging.  So getting it right takes a bit of work.

I'm also making sure the layers I create are easy for the coder to use. In the beginning I did some wonky stuff with layers which had some really "interesting" results.(I couldn't find my precious "vulture neck katara"-example so I added a minor mistake as an example.) I have to use layers and can't just do it like they would in a traditional cartoon and create an entirely new drawing for each frame. 

Why not? Two reasons: the amount of files and size of the game would skyrocket. Layering and re-using art layers will get us a game which isn't gargantuan in size. 

The second reason is less obvious but almost just as important. If I mess up something, let's say Katara's eyes are too small, I can just change one drawing and all the instances in which it's used change right along with it. So instead of fifty drawings I only have to change one!

We can't have katara just masturbate furiously out of nowhere so I'm planning on making versions which lead up to Katara masturbating(furiously.)