Summertime's New Look!

Hey folks!

I've been working on these for the past few days now, and those pledging 10 and up have been able to see (in all R18+ glory) what these were first. Now that I've done the clothes, here we are, it's now available to our 2+ pledgers. I'm in the middle of fixing up Minako's clothes. 

So what's going on now is that I'm revamping Summer in Springtime's artwork and taking over the art. There have been some issues when it comes to art consistency from the bros that got me... hmm... very concerned. In other words, I wasn't happy with it. So rather than sit back and wait for this to try and resolve itself (and I'm almost certain it won't), I'm taking over the helm. These are the first character designs for the game from me. 

I've also looked around, and there will be major changes to Summertime.

• The art style will remain as I've envisioned it: it should look like a western-eastern anime hybrid. So as you can see, I'm using some of the artistic queues we have before like the facial details, and techniques in shading, and highlights.
• I am still in the process of finding out the final look of the characters and background. I'm generally aiming to simplify things, but heck, it seems I'm whipping myself here.
• All the coloring process will be on me, so please understand that I'm trying to save on resources where I can like simplification since these take a ton of time to do. The special scenes will have simplified shadows, less highlights, etc... while I try to maintain a consistent look.
• Favoring speed, later on, the backgrounds will be simplified, looking at a monochromatic look, maybe something rough like a marker sketch.

For this month, I'm aiming to prep up as much of these special events as I can. Here's what will happen: 

• I'll prep up as much as possible up until it's just ready for animation.
• I'll first do the ones that don't have an existing animation in the game yet.
• I'll update the game with the static images first for those missing the scenes. Then I'll update these as the animations are finished.
• On special scenes that are already in the game with the old artwork, those scene's poses will be reused and fixed up so my existing animations have some use.

Please note that I didn't expect to encounter this sort of thing, but for me, it's a reliability issue that has me scratching my head trying to determine whether the work quality was going down hill and what's going to be the bottom of it. If the work quality was going down the toilet (because it was done by someone else), it'd be so much harder for me to fix them, and it'd be better to just do it myself.

Summertime was supposed to be a project that we work in collaboration with another artist, but it seems going from A -> B with this notion has a crap ton of hidden what-ifs, buts, switcheroos, and other caveats to deal with. Oh well...

C'est la vie!

I'm dealing with this now, hooray T_T.

BeerBrew