Hello all!
Happy belated Valentines Day! I do apologise for this post going out a day late. I managed to get the new release out on Patreon, but then had to rush out for an evening with the wife and didn't get home until pretty late!
So, the 5th Patreon release came out yesterday. It features the new scene requested by the paid Patreon members, which this time was Ivy. For good measure, I managed to get Aimee's scene done too, so a double whammy this month. I also think I may have forgotten to do a free members post last month announcing Alice and Layla's scenes that were added in Janurary!
As there are only 2 senes left for the afternoon choices (Katie and Jane) I won't do another vote, as both those scenes will come in the next release anyway. Following that, there's probably 3-4 more core scenes, then Episode 3 Part 2 is done. Out of those 5-6 scenes, 3 of them are animation heavy, and the others are standard scenes. So I 'm still hoping to complete the entire Episode before the end of March.
Ivy's scene ended up taking a lot longer than I had anticipated. As I was rendering her scene, I realised that there needed to be multiple routes into the content body of her scene. Then following completeing it, after playing though, I felt it was a bit 'shallow', so needed to add further dialogue. I felt it was time to get to know Ivy a bit more on a personal level.
That, along with some issue with one of the many assets in the scene that causes every single render to crash once before completeing correctly (I've still no idea what asset was doing this), it meant that each image essentially needed to be redered twice!
As it was Valentines day, I felt I couldn't at least do a couple of bonus renders, so here are the SFW ones :D
I hope you've all had a great weekend!
I'll check in soon!
Nickle3DArt