Progress Report, She-Hulk WIP Release (Patreon)

Hey guys. Sorry for the delay. You might be wondering, 'gettag, why the heck did you start working on she-hulk when Selvaria is next?' Well, I'll explain that here.

TL;DR - She-Hulk was a character I needed to get off of my backlog, and I decided to use her to test implementation of a new portrait system and a few other things that i'll use in the future if people like it enough. Patrons at $5+ can get her current WIP here. 

What have been up to?

After I finished the Kula update, I started thinking about releasing a Darkstalkers video. The main reason I wanted to do this was because my original Lei-Lei video got deleted along with the file on my mega. Well, I got to thinking - if i'm gonna repost her, why don't I update her godawful Full Nelson anim as well? 

That was the first addition I thought up, but if you have been following my twitter, at some point I decided I would update Lilith as well, because she completely lacked a Full Nelson animation. Then I started thinking "golly gee wilikers, her press anim isn't that good either!" consumed by feature creep, this was the start of...

Portrait Hell

What set everything off was my revision of Lilith's Press animation: The new version has her upper body completely obscured. IMO, for pixel art (and erotic stuff in general) facial expressions are a key aspect, and I wanted to still have something visible to relay that information. I had talked with someone on discord about adding a cut-in of the characters face during some scenes, so this seemed like a good opportunity to follow through on that.

This was the first attempt I made. I think it gets across what I am going after for the most part here - being able to show some detailed expression to accentuate the scenario, but it had two problems.

1.) This was an edit of Lilith's character slection portrait, something that necessarily isn't a consistent thing across characters

2.) The floating head, alone, looked weird

Because of some stuff a few months back, I had an obligation of sorts to work on a She-Hulk edit. I figured the character would make a good testbed to experiment with some things to see if it was worth adapting to other characters, so I began developing this concept further with her.

Above is probably the second or third iteration I made after many failed attempts that will never see the light of day.

This is one of the animations that plays, but I think I can improve this aspect. I spent so much time just getting to this point I wasn't able to finish it though, along with some other compatibility parts, so I am just going to release the WIP for now and spend the next week on Selvaria + the Sakazaki animation and refine this in my spare time. There will be another release(s) next week, but I dont know what will be in it yet.