Rose and Slimegirl chibi reveals + Devlog #134 + Illustration poll #8 is on!
And finally, Rose and Slimegirl chibis!!!Oh boy, there's so much to say about these two... I think I already talked about Slimegirl in a previous devlog. Basically, the difficulty with her was her height growth mod. As you can see, she gets taller with each rank up! While this doesn't affect her battle portrait, it meant extra attention for her chibi sprites. But I didn't want her to end up with a massive head at R6, so I had to figure out proportions for each rank, essentially un-chibifying her with each rank up. Thankfully, 3D models made by Random came in especially handy for this! After I drew her R6 sprites, I scaled down the body and head accordingly for each pose for each rank, fine tuned the lines and colors, drew the booba, and cleaned up the black outline. It was a long and tough process, which looking back was a bit of a theme between her, Vuu and Rose...! I'm definitely not doing height growth again, but it was worth it! ^^As for Rose, just like for Vuu, the difficulty came from the fact that I updated all of her sprite to be more cohesive with the way I draw chibis now, and the pose variety also meant a bunch of extra work for the boobs AND for the butt/hips/thighs, since these also get bigger on some rank ups...!But, once again, it was definitely worth it! The booba turned out great, I'm especially happy with her R5 (and R6), there's a bit of a surprise there ^^
Here are some old/new comparison gifs for Rose:
R4 and R5 chibis are available to $10+ patrons!
Yet another art month!To be honest, I didn't have as much time as I wanted to spend on work this time around. I'll finally be moving in the second half of May and had to spend a bit over a week prepping for it, moving furniture, taking care of some health stuff (just normal checkups, but it's gotta be done), and other boring IRL stuff. Realistically I'm sure people would understand these sorts of obligations, but I prefer to be clear about it anyway!
With that said, I still did put in some good work. Rose in particular took a bit...!More monstergirl illustration progress was made, a new one is fully finished, another two are underway, more ref docs were written.
But even with Rose finished, I wasn't quite done working on chibis...! Both Vuu and Rose have special sprites used only in some cutscenes that aren't grouped with their normal sprite sets! Basically, anything where they're directly interacting with something else, like during the Auria slingshot sequence, some stuff in the Great pyramid, or the Vanille hug. Nothing crazy, but these had to be updated.And while I was at it, I also updated the shading on Vanille, Eveii and Vestia. Well, Eveii got a bit more than that actually ^^
Here are some more gifs:
And with that, I'm officially out of chibi hell!There's still more to do of course, starting with the characters who have a temporary zombie chibi, but I'm done with chibis for a while. I need a break!
Until I move later in May, I'll be taking care of as many monstergirl designs as possible. I'm still going in order of the hardest to easiest to tackle but there aren't that many tough ones left really! Mainly just Crab girl (who I got a couple ideas for barely 3 hours ago or so), Kitsune 2, Invisible girl (Who I('ve also been getting some fun ideas for recently), and Arachne, who is actually almost finished! I had enough time in the month to start working on her ^^In fact, her design is essentially done, I really just need to draw some extra refs, such as for her pet (since she got the Appropriate tiny pet mod :B) and of course write her ref doc after. So in all likeliness, Arachne's design will be finalized tomorrow if not today ^^
On another note, Patreon has rolled out a new feature called Quips. Basically, it's like a social media, but only creators can quip. Everyone can comment on said quips though ^^It's mainly a mobile thing (for now, hopefully it extends to browsers fully soon) so I have limited access to it, I can really only post quips but not access the feed. I'm planning on posting the same stuff I do on bsky and twitter, I believe you won't get notifications every time I post a quip but, if you do, here is some copy pasted Patreon instructions!
QUIPS
Are members able to adjust Quips notification settings?If fans reach out about Quips notifications, they can adjust them in their notification settings. They can turn off notifications for Quips from creators they don't yet follow and adjust notifications for a specific creator. For a step-by-step guide, they can visit the notification section in the Navigate the Patreon app as a member guide.
And that's pretty much all I got this time! Sorry again I don't have more to share. With my move happening next month, the next devlog's content will probably be a bit on the shorter side as well. I'm pretty confident I can knock out all the tough designs I listed above, maybe even more, but even if I do this isn't stuff I can share until later...! Ah well.The good news is that I do have a bunch of monstergirls either ready to be revealed or in the works, and with all the chibis being out, we're now going back to character reveals from the next devlog on! Very excited for that :B
And now, the poll stuff!
The next illustration poll has begun! The theme this time is [Freeform (no horny)]!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
And finally, this time's Vuu doodle! Still doing this for now ^^Kinda big maybe...!
Thanks for reading, that's everything for now!Bye! :B
edit:I checked the Game Maker blog, and it turns out a new blog entry was posted just yesterday announcing the release of the Long Term Stable version of GM2 I've been waiting for in 2026 Q2! Hopefully it'll fix the issues of the current build, but either way, that's some great news ^^ https://gamemaker.io/en/blog/update-spring-2026
Thanks Raptor-kun for making me check! :B