I'm Back! What to Expect in 2025

Hi everyone, I'm back from Japan! Hope you're doing well, here's a little update.

Billing

As a reminder, billing for existing members is paused until Feb 12, and then things will be back to normal. Extra special thanks to everyone who joined as a paid member during the month off, your generosity has not gone unnoticed!

New Equipment

I bought some equipment in Japan. The income I'm getting from Patreon made it possible for me to do this comfortably. Thank you! ♥

The big purchases I made are an iPad and a Macbook (both used at a reasonable price, mind).

• The iPad is for art, both sculpting and illustrating. One problem I had last year was going long periods of time not doing art while working on kemorig.  This year I want to be more disciplined; I'm planning on taking the iPad out of my room to do a few hours of art, probably 3 or so days a week. Getting outside is going to help a lot I think.

• As for the Macbook, admittedly this is me getting out in front of the fact that laptops may get more expensive to buy soon in the US. I will be using it for times when I'm not at my workstation PC, but have non-gamedev work I need to do. Like writing, making Patreon posts, or things like that. I also want to use it to remote-desktop into my workstation to get gamedev done while away from home.

Goals for 2025

kemorig is still the primary project for me in 2025. Not a surprise! The big feature on the horizon is hand-tracking, which I expect to take a couple months to implement. I also want to keep working on included example content, documentation, bug fixes, and smaller features to make it easier for people to author cool avatars.

I want to post more art. Especially sculpts. I've started using Nomad Sculpt on iPad, and I really like it! I will also still be using ZBrush on my PC. I'd like to get to the point where I can create character sculpts fast enough that I can consistently put art out.

I want to develop illustration skills. Right now, I'm 100% a 3D artist, and I really don't have any traditional 2D art skills. I want this to change. Especially with my anime art style, it's really limiting not being able to illustrate! This is like a stretch goal for the year, but it's on my mind and I want to work on it.

Thank You

To the existing and new members, thank you! I hope 2025 is a good year!

As always, feel free to comment here or on the Discord. Is everything in this update what you expected? Do you have ideas for kemorig? Is there something I'm forgetting? Let me know!