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Digital Commission #14: Samantha and Flin scrambling to put their clothes on

And then Flin hustles out of there and everything's okay. Phew!

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I'm gonna delete the last two poll posts and just summarize everything here (because if I get into a habit of doing this, I don't want my post history clogged with polls that don't matter anymore). So for posterity:

Patronese graciously offered their monthly commission to the rest of you, so I agreed and held two polls over the course of 4 days.

Samantha won the first poll as th...

Plans for the Sound Update

Alright, so let's talk about the sound update! Love, Lust, and Rock 'n Roll revolves around music as a core part of its plot and has a goddamn genre of music in its title, yet the game is silent as the grave.

I've prioritized other things, but the time has finally come.

Music

Music is a huge deal to me. I played a ton of guitar in high school, and spent my first two years of college studying music composition (probably a mistake, as I ended up going for computer science, b...

2nd base makeout with Julie except without clothes

Because I felt like it, okay?

Version 1.4.7, "The Samantha Update," Released!

I know what you're thinking. "Woah Flin, slow down, it's only been 10 short months since your last update, take a breather!" But you can't keep this tiger caged, man.

Download available at: https://flinpaltwell.itch.io/love-lust-and-rock-n-roll

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Alright, so at long last, we have the Samantha update. This adds the final story event to the rock band tour, before our heroe...

Julie's Section Complete

That's right, Julie's entire story event in the upcoming update is now done!

And yes, this means that the final rock band tour event, the crux of this next update, is finished. What remains to be done?

Well, as I've said, I'd like to give Amy just a bit more love. I don't expect this to take much time. One animation or at least something satisfying, possibly recycled and possibly not.
There are a few other images I've considered revamping to help make the early parts o...

Julie, 1st and 2nd base

Recycled some of the work from doing the same thing with Samantha/Kelly.

Because there's never enough boob grabs.

Kelly collapsed on Flin

Recycled from a Julie image, but I didn't end up using this yet. It doesn't really slot into the newest Kelly event, so if I'm gonna include it I'd need to add it to an earlier scene. The only one that fits is the band tour 3-day sequence, which is pretty jam-packed as it is. So it's probably better to save this for a later event instead.

Doesn't mean I can't share it here and now.

Holding hands with Julie

Don't worry, the uncensored version will be available in-game.

Kelly Section Complete!

The above two images are recycled from Samantha imagery, but currently I've decided not to use either of them. Sometimes I try it out, and realize the hair was doing more than I expected to make the shot look good.

I still like these shots, though. Might use them in the future, just not in the next update.

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Anyway, Kelly's part in the next update is officially complete! The writing, scripting, imagery, all done.

I've also started converting some of ...

Makin' out and...a little more

Aww, how sweet ~❤

Recycled from a Samantha image (related to the "Never Enough Boob Grabs" post), but readjusted a bit because Kelly's shorter and has a different shirt. More work than I expected but not too bad.

Kelly's hair is peculiar to me sometimes. At certain angles, if I don't arrange it right, it'll almost seem like she's a different person. It's hard to explain.
Took a lot of finessing to get it to settle in a way I liked here, though honestly I think the result look...

Samantha's Piece of the Event Complete!

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No, the update is not ready yet.

BUT, I've officially finished writing everything to do with Samantha's part of the upcoming story event. This includes all imagery, animations, dialogue, scripting, etc.

Samantha, and all of her content for LLRR, is complete.*

This is a big milestone because her part in the event is over twice as long as anyone else's. Her imagery was also far more work than anyone else's, since she basically needed to be...

Julie Couch Scene Revamp, Part 3/3

And thus, our story culminates in some steamy, illicit activities in the dark, while Flin's girlfriend and Julie's husband sleep in their respective rooms just one floor above them.

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Original:

Revamp:

This image was a fucking nightmare, lol. Out of everything in the revamp, this wa...

Julie Couch Scene Revamp, Part 2/3

Continuing from the last post, it's time for my favorite part of the Julie couch scene.

Fun fact: When I originally made this little sequence, I was inspired by the intro to "Enter Sandman," by Metallica.
Really, just the first minute of the song. Try slowly stepping through these images while listening to it. Bonus points if you wait to sync up Julie's initial appearance with when the drums kick in, which requires you to stare at Flin's sleeping face for the first 1...

Julie Couch Scene Revamp, Part 1/3

This upcoming update isn't just about adding a new story event. A LOT of imagery has been polished or revamped. Most notable among these, in my opinion, is Julie's entire couch sequence.

I think it's easy to look at the above images and wonder what's even different about them. The couch scene was fine, right?

Well, in this 3-part sequence (which I'll spread across a few tiers), I'll show you a before-and-after of every single image in this scene. Hopefully by the end, you'll agree...

Nighttime Endeavors

I'm running into a kind of funny problem, so I thought I could share another Samantha image while I describe it.

I once shared a tutorial on how I make nighttime images. Basically, I add a layer of transparent black above the whole thing to darken it, and I increase the blue values all by 20 each. Simple, and it's worked nicely so far.

However, Samantha's hair does not want to fucking c...

Blender/GIMP Tutorial: How to make a (seamless) GIF

Been a hot second since I did a tutorial, but I've been wanting to share this technique for a while now. It took time to work out all the steps, and now it's my standard workflow for all animations I export.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to turn your Blender animation into a seamlessly looping GIF using GIMP.
Creating animations in Blender is beyond the scope of this tutorial. We'll mostly be focusing on GIMP, but I want to cover a few settings in Blender first.

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Samantha Swimsuit

Decided to use the "Kelly in a Bikini" commission as a starting point to make a fun little doodle of Samantha for the end of the month. I don't usually do the faint "S-shaped" cleavage thing (where the cleavage is curving one way and then sorta curves the other way), but it just kind of happened here and I like it.

This image won't be in the game, but a different-colored version of this bikini will be used by Kelly, and that will be in the game someday.

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Made a <...

Flin x Kelly (animation)

Using the "butt jiggling" animation from the last post as a starting point, I made this new animation (for both Kelly and Samantha). As I've said, the two will recycle a lot of work from each other, which will really help me square away Kelly's content once I'm done with the Samantha sequence I'm working on.

Just as that last animation was the first-ever butt jiggle, this one is the first-ever ass grab (which also jiggles, which I like).

This is also the first time an ani...

Thrusting, butt jiggling (animation)

Definitely one or two new milestones achieved here! Just because I don't show genitalia doesn't mean I'm not interested in depicting a good 'ol pelvic thrust or butt jiggle.

Building off the boob jiggling animation with Kelly, I tried adding the "lower half" of what's going on to the shot. I've tried and failed to do this in the past with other shots, but as with everything I do, it's all a matter of trial-and-error. This time, my FIRST attempt at getting a good pelvic thrust outta Flin...

My body is ready...

I tried adding some faint "anime action lines" to the second image:

I don't dislike them, but I dunno. Kinda like the original more.

Still workshopping the concept in general. Might mess with the shading and such.

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Anyway, it's someone's birthday today!!! You know who you are. Happy birthday bud 😘

Never enough boob grabs

They're a pain in the ass, but there are never enough.

This one turned out pretty good in my opinion, and it's thanks to my latest in "boob grab technology" 😅.

First, a brief history of the techniques I tried:
To start, I tried morphing the breast on the original 3D model to billow out between the fingers.

2022-07-07 03:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Music Teaser

ROCK MUSIC

BECAUSE FUCK YEAH

You know, fuck it, I'll share some music! Composed by yours truly.

There won't be any sound in the next update, but why not tease a little rock music before the month ends?
I've already successfully tested splitting it up into 4 separate parts that fade in and out seamlessly when the various characters enter or exit the scene (Bass for Stella, Drums for Eric, Guitar for Kelly, Piano for Flin). Even if you sc...

"Did you hear something?"

"It's fine, let's keep going..."

Blurry Julie Strip

I don't think I ever shared this little "doodle." There's some unpolished stuff, like Julie's ponytail floating in the third shot, but I really liked the results for how relatively simple they were to make.
The first shot is seen in the background of an image I made a while back, with the angel/devil stuff:

I liked what was going on in the background of that shot and decided to expand on it ...

Samantha Progress

Just wanted to share some good news! I know I haven't shared any posts yet this month, but I actually got a LOT done in terms of writing the story! However, that doesn't leave me with the best content for Patreon posts, so I'm looking to share more this week as I get back into making imagery.

I basically got all of the build-up in Kelly's section written, and I'm almost done writing all the build-up in Samantha's section.

As I've written more and more of Samantha's sequence, I've ...

Kelly from Behind

Just wanted to fit one last post in since I was rather inactive this month. And look at that, it's a "non-front-to-front" position!

I made a commission a little while ago that was this same position with Kelly, which I recently polished up a bit more, and I decided I wanted another angle to go with it.
This kind of shot immediately comes with its own set of hurdles, the first being that I need to get myself attracted to the idea, fast. If I'm working on a shot and it's just not comin...

Kelly, lotus position, bra, kissing (animation)

I've only ever made one animation prior to now that involved kissing, and it was a silhouette one (not implemented in LLRR, but shared in a much earlier post).

This is because getting two characters' lips to press together in a satisfying shape is a PAIN IN THE ASS. But animating that shit? Well...not as awful as I thought it would be, but to be fair, this animation is pretty tame in that regard. Their mouths aren't really moving that much. I'd ideally like to capture a "chewin...

New Samantha Sprites

"New" is a little silly since she's not even in the game yet, but the tank top design I shared a while back just wasn't quite doing it for me. I still like those sprites, but I wanted to try something else. Here's a side-by-side:

I'll try to use both, but it's hard to say how, since she's just a side character who may or may not come back later. For now, I'd rather her main sc...

Status Update

Hey everyone! I know things have been slow, but I wanted to share my current progress so far. The above image has nothing to do with anything, just a variant I didn't share before 😊

Basically, as of an hour ago, Amy's segment in the next update is now finished! As usual, there's a mix of old imagery, revamped stuff, and entirely new stuff. This means Stella and Amy are both done, but I still need to do Kelly, Julie, and Samantha.

Amy took a long time because sh...

MOAR AMY

You may recognize all three of these shots, as they take from source imagery I've already shared, but a good amount of polish has been applied to make them their own thing that I can use in the next update.

I'm still trying to get away with mostly black backgrounds for Amy's scenes, but I'll admit that some shots, like the cowgirl shot, seem to suffer more than others for it. And I think that's because shots like that one have a stronger sense of depth to them, and thus need perspective...