Posing Practice Progress (Patreon)

Another month and a half has passed, my training is going very well, first character creation, then overlays and details, and now posing and expressions. Posing has been something that I did since I first started making pics, both for my accounts and now for the game, however 3DCG and Koikatsu are two different beasts, 3DCG is quite honestly simple to use but at the same time not that detailed and at times limiting (since the entire engine has no physics nor many modification options, while Koikatsu is indeed a whole different beast, way more complicated but with a lot of tools to get the maxinum quality out of each picture. I trained quite some time and I got pretty used to the engine, I still have a lot to learn, however I do think that I'm currently decent at it (Koikatsu seasoned users can correct or roast me if that's not the case pfft).

I'm quite happy with the results so far, even if I know that I can do better, I still think that the pictures so far look really nice and that boosts my will to make more and more for the game, starting of course with the old ones from the previous 5 stages. Since no new characters have been introduced, I guess I can talk about the new pics and what they are or what I did generally without being too boring with explanations.

From first to last we have:
Jogging Girl's Morning Routine: As the game already established, Jogging Girl loves to jog during the morning, since that makes her feel alive and energetic sometimes even while listening some music, with a soft wink, it's like if she's inviting the viewer to join her, she definitely wouldn't mind the company.
The image is pretty straight forward, without too much going on, it was the first pic I made for the showcase afterall, but since it wasn't that detailed aside from the sweaty effect, I wanted to give the picture some energy, tilting it a little bit to give the impression that she is in fact running, it is kind of a trick to give the picture some movement and action, I will definitely use this trick a lot during battle scenes or maybe something extreme happening like maybe Sakura's dropkick.

Philla's Hungry Tantrum: Due to Philla growing a liking for human food later on in the game, I made a little scene where she looks at the viewer angrily, wanting to go inside the restaurant so badly to try out new food, making a really big tantrum like a little girl. I had to heavily use the advanced bones feature to make her as adorable and angry as possible, I opted for a pouty face, however, it didn't go well on my first try, so I instead made her puff both cheeks while making her mouth smaller, so that it looks like she's pouting with both cheeks, the rest of the pic went smoothly and I already had a bit of experience with prospective for her hand pointing behind her thanks to the Soyjak meme I did for the discord server logo (which I'll probably re-do with the new Koikatsu graphics pfft.

Sissy Browsing Redirekt: The ride home is quite long, so what better way to look at memes and pretty pictures? She even got comfortable by getting her sandals off, afterall, she doesn't really care if people see her, in fact, she might hope she catches some foot pervert gazing at her pale soles ;P .. About the process behind the picture, I had some troubles since laying poses are somewhat hard to do, expecially making it believable, but I think I made a pretty good job, the only thing is that her skirt was quite hard to deal with since I had to retry again and again to make it look believable and not clip trough the body. I think everyone also realized that she's looking at a black screen, I didn't really mind since this is just a picture made to show how the poses will look pretty much, but I guess that's pretty funny.

Midnight and Lullaby's Game: If you were wondering what Midnight and Lullaby do whenever they are alone, they just play together various games to pass the time, Lullaby loves spending time with Midnight and Midnight treats her like a little sister, she just adores Lullaby's childish behaviour. This was the most complex picture I made for this showcase, other than the fact that of course 2 characters require more time to pose than just 1, I think the most complex thing to pose were their hair and Lullaby's skirt, since all three required me to keep in mind that gravity exists. Due to Lullaby's wings clipping trough the bed, I decided to move them behind her instead of one to the left and one to the right, I also tried to interlock their fingers, however, I might need some more practice before doing that.

With the explanations out of the way, it's important to let you guys know what's next on our schedule! Next up me and my co-developer are gonna work on silhouettes, like I did back in 3DCG we're gonna use invisible bodies to let characters hold objects (like Sissy is doing in the picture above), making characters remove their shoes and finally, this will permit us to add proper cum in the game and not just a static image.

About the posing practice progress (or PPP 7v7) I'd love to hear your thoughts and discuss in the comments, other than that, I'll see you next time!
*The models showed may be subject to changes upon the next version releases, these designs are not final.