Weekly Update #3 - 3/17/23 (Patreon)

Hey hey!

Happy Friday! Hope everyone has been a good week, and if it wasn't a good week, I hope you can take some time for yourself in the near future <3 And welcome new patrons! Please make yourself comfortable.

I 1000% bit off more than I can chew (which is kinda my brand these days, I guess). The Auronya took, no joke, like ten different changes (and reboots of Rimworld to test) to make them look nice enough to release. It was a big lesson in compression and art assets that I definitely learned the hardest and most inefficient way possible. So to that - didn't get quite as much concept stuff done this week as I would have liked, but I tried to release some stuff for you guys to enjoy into the weekend c:

I am going to try really hard and practice what I preach and not take on too much and burn myself out. One week of *a lot* of learning and testing and asset creation is doable, but doing that every week isn't sustainable. So to that, this coming week will probably be a bit quieter! Still will keep the rhythm going for Alpha Genes and Persona Hairs and Impid fashion, but I'll probably not make 100+ assets and do concept work at the same time again. That was a little overkill, haha. Lesson learned.

If you've made it to this point in my rambling, uh, thank you! I have a B I G  T H I N G in the works with my programmer to help make a system so that other artists can contribute (in their own name - I'm not taking credit for credit I didn't do) their own assets to the mod via Steam. The big vision is to open up the floodgates and create a space for artists to be commissioned/share their own additions to PotR as well. I'll still be doing my own thing and keep drawing for PotR, obviously, but I meant it when I said that I want this to be something for everyone. The world is a brighter and more creative place the more tools and access we give to each other to create! So it's time I pay it forward c: It'll take a while, and I don't want to promise too much right now as we figure things out, but yeah! I'm really excited and wanted to share here first.

LIFE UPDATE:

I've actually been using ChatGPT with the Rimworld event prompts to see what kinda story it tells, and it's genuinely a blast. I would definitely recommend trying it out for yourself! I log them with the Diary mod so I don't lose my Rimworld fanfiction lol

ORDER OF PROGRESS (for reference)

Concept/Inspiration>Sketch>Asset Generation>Implementation>Test>Final/Release