NPR testing (Patreon)

Progress has been depressingly slow as work has become rather stressful and I keep having to stay late because as much as I'd like to find something less stressful, I can't leave because the education benefits are way too good >_> But I have about another year left to complete my degree.

Anyway last semester idk if I mentioned, I absolutely crushed it :3 this semester I also intend to get continue my streak of only getting A's~

So it's looking like I'll be using stylized 3d for characters with little to no manual touching up.  I basically just took the 3d guide model for Lonnie and added vertex colors for the skin, that's all there is now though is just the skin material. Basically all that's going on here is some fancy fresnel nodes, a bit of sub-surface scattering and the "inverted hull" outline method (with a material that uses vertex colors for outlines and darkens them)

I did copy/paste a strip of polygons to the jaw to achieve the usual "jaw line" since the outline method works well with that.

For Lonnie's "hair" I'm not sure how that will look in 3d yet, but it'll very likely not be actual hairs but some kind of purposeful geometry with a stylish material.

For eyes, I'm not sure what I'll be doing yet because it's a weird eye shape. I might use static textures for eyes and eyelids mapped to the eyes instead of instead of geometry or textures that follow an object or something.

I still have a lot to learn about NPR (non-photorealistic rendering) and like... finding the "look" as well. I want something that's smooth, soft, pretty but also has the same feel as the 2d draw overs I did a million of.

As for resolution and such, I have every intention of this being played in browser. But I'm not sure how much animation I might do *if* I do go with 100% 3d for characters. So, if it's more animation heavy, likely 480x270. Otherwise, likely 960x540.

I can't tell you how much I wish I could work on games more often. It's the only thing in my life that brings me joy. I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who's still sticking around. And I apologize for the lack of stuff.

-Velocirection, chief sexy officer of Pizzass Games~