I've been a busy bee but I have done kinda a bit of stuff.
The artist I am working with finished a background that we were discussing before. Above I attached the image of something that was added to the background though I modified it. We shall see about the portraits that we have been talking about for awhile.
I ended up doing some quick test for the panning system? Well it using the 2020 renpy script/code stuff. It seems to work fairly well though I ended up not using my art for the test but hey it works but basically I combine at least two image together with a variable similar to how the portraits work. With a bit of modification I could change expressions and stuff like that while it is panning with just one added line in the pose dialogue etc.