Vuu and Nightmare chibi reveals + Devlog #133 + Illustration poll #7 is on!
Vuu and Nightmare chibis!That's a LOT of sprites...! Nightmare's were finished quite a while ago, she has a lot of poses but thankfully her BE wasn't all that tough to draw. I even improved her R1 sprites (mostly the shading). You might remember some of these comparison gifs I shared in a previous devlog:
Actually, I also fixed a pretty weird mistake! It's obvious when you know about it, but I don't think many, if anyone, noticed it in game. This specific sprite only appears for a short while in the last cutscene after all! Look at the dress, near her horn:
As for Vuu, these turned out to be an ordeal and a half! It took as much if not more effort than Slimegirl. There's a few reasons for this. First of all like I explained last time her current sprites are very old, and my chibi style has evolved to look curvier, instead of a goofier bean shaped body type back then, and my general use of lines and colors just wasn't as good. Because boobs don't look as good on that older body type and given she's the main character, I wanted to cleanly redraw all of her sprites! However also because she's the main character, and the fact I didn't approach each pose in a way that lets me reuse bodyparts for other poses back then, this meant I had a LOT of poses to redraw, several of which required some special considerations too...! And of course even after all of these were done, I still had the BE to take care of, once again with more variety than I'd usually have to deal with for a single character.
So yeah, lots of work and efforts, here are some comparison gifs!
I hope you like her new look! ^^
By the way, I also experimented with green eyes instead of the black dot pupils just to see how it looks. It feels a bit cursed lolI won't use it since the dots are cuter and easier to make expressive faces with, but here's what it looks like:
R4 and R5 chibis are available to $10+ patrons!
Once again, full art month!After finishing Vuu's sprites near the start of the month, I went straight to Rose. She's also getting the same treatment of getting redrawn, but even with less poses than Vuu, taking care of both in a row was extremely mind numbing... I'd basically wake up, make progress, sigh, make progress again, then go to bed again lolIn the end, I had to stop after finishing all of her R1s for my sanity! She's looking great, I just need to finish her boob/butt alts later this month ^^And then, I'll be out of chibi hell for good, finally! Of course I still need to draw more chibis for the currently chibi-less characters, but it'll be much, much easier to do with all my accumulated knowledge. No more height growth, redrawing from scratch, huge number of poses, having to figure out how to do the BE and adapt it for older sprite... It's just going to be a lot smoother.I'll be taking care of these slowly over time. Which means that the next devlog will be the last one to feature chibi sprites with the Rose and Slimegirl reveal! After that, we're going back to Monstergirl reveals! ^^Not to say I won't do chibi reveals again, but these'll be more spread out from then on.I now have a nice backlog of Monstergirls, both designed and fully finished, so I'll be able to keep going stress free! It's perfect ^^
More progress was also made on a new Monstergirl who I can't wait to reveal, I'll have a lot to say about her given her design is easily the most complex one I did, and the artist who worked on her did a stellar job, but that's for later...!
I did catch a bad cold which made me lose a couple days, but I still managed to design one more Monstergirl after. Like I said last time, I prefer to start with the tough ones first, and it was time for Wolf girl! That Film noir mod gave me a pretty bad time but after a lot of research and experimentation, I finally got it! Not just that, but she turned out super good, she's very fun, I think she'll be well received ^^Looking to design a bunch more in April, which is probably going to be my last full art month.
What else... I don't have a whole lot more to share really, though I did get a very fun idea. Without getting into it too much, it will basically be a simplified version of the "Silly mode" I previously said I wouldn't do. And it should be very easy to implement too! That'll be a small extra to expect in the BE update ^^
Small addendum!I wrote all this a couple days ago and just now finished Rose's R2~R6 for her fight pose. I had a cool idea for her higher ranks, tested it out, and it looks extra cool! Can't wait to show it :BI guess I'll talk about this real quick: I usually do every rank of a character for one of the poses (usually idle, but because of Rose's crossed arms her fight stance was easier!). This allows me to always reference that fully finished pose for the ranks of every other pose, which is a great way to maintain consistency!So yeah, good stuff! ^^
And now, the poll stuff!
The next illustration poll has begun! The theme this time is [Maids]!You can vote in the Discord server if you are a 2$+ patron! Here are the current theme and submissions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Drz4UD09YftgaihcwWq6McqiFTa2l77XJ9oBJ0hfDcoThe
I made a couple bigger versions of last time's shortstack Nightmare, but it wasn't too great so here is another Vuu doodle on top. I guess it's fitting considering this time's reveal ^^
(skindentation is the perfect excuse to make boobas a bit bigger)
That's all I got for now! Thank you very much for reading! :B