_Artemis Status Update

Happy Monday everyone!

Very big welcome to all the new patrons. Artemis hit 100 patrons on Friday and I wanted to give a special thanks to everyone who has joined me on this journey. So I made a special render that features Kindra working on Artemis. There are two versions. One version that is lore friendly and another that is more "safe for work". These were rendered in 4k and ultrawide format uncompressed. Additionally, the poll for Chapter 2...I decided to also have a runner up as a special thanks. So that means instead of only one winner for this poll. We'll have a runner up as well, so two girls will be featured in Chapter 2 from the poll. As part of my thank you to everyone. So Katy has a solid lead with Zelda as the runner up. Since not all the TARS and up patrons have voted yet, I'm going to have the poll continue until next Monday where I'll announce the two girls who won.

But wait, there's more. A patron of mine, InfamousGuy, had suggested wallpapers of the girls and I am completely on board with this. So I'll also be working on wallpapers for the rest of the main girls listed in DataLeak (Kindra, June, Katy, Reina, Paige, Zoe, Naomi, Zelda, V and Cassie). They'll be sent out in batches, so I won't cut too much into CH2 development time. But I look forward to getting them out to everyone. Again, big thanks to everyone!

OK! Next is where I'm at with Chapter 2.

I mainly worked on the script this week. Gathered my notes and wrote out 7 scenes. Additionally, I outlined 10 scenes on top of that. Scenes that are outlined are just very rough drafts of what I'm brainstorming. Chapter 1 had a total of 27 scenes (not including scenes in the sandbox segments), so I have 10 more scenes to outline for Chapter 2. There could be more, but 27 scenes a chapter is the minimum goal I've set for myself.

I spent this weekend staging and rendering the opening scene. The opening scene has 63 renders. I had to go back and re-render 10 of them because I did not like the backdrop, so I had to do a quick swap, but am now satisfied. I spent a lot of time going over the details of this scene. Things such as props and background. I couldn't find any assets/textures for grease stains and it would have looked odd for someone to be working on an engine and appear clean. Especially on the fingers. So I added my own to the skin texture and the scene is a lot more convincing now with this small detail. I added grease under the fingernails in the final render.

As I'm writing, I also starting picking music tracks for this chapter. Music is very inspirational for me and helps drive my creativity.

I'll be focusing on completing the first draft of the script and begin scene blocking/rendering. I won't rush the writing though. If I hit writers block, I'll rotate out the writing with other areas to work on such as asset creation, scene setups, storyboarding, character attire, etc. So I'll keep busy for whatever scenario I'm in. I'll also begin working on the DataLeak renders this week as well.

Have a wonderful week and I'll share the wallpapers as I complete them,

digi.B