The final potential date character of the game is Wendy who you may meet as a fitness trainer at the gym. This story is sort of a bonus content that just shows up after you have been playing the game a few times, kind of like a DLC bonus mission. I don’t want to give away the story of this
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Over the past year, and especially the last month or two, I have been tinkering with the looks of the characters in the sequel. Since we are in the new year, I thought I’d compare and contrast some of the models as they looked in 2011 to how they look today in 2013. First up is Ariane, who has undergone
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After working on it for over a year, I am declaring an end to the “Principal Photography” portion of Something’s In The Air. When I started this project I had in mind a 6 story visual novel. It got whittled down to 4. One (a “romantic” story) was dropped because I couldn’t figure out how to make it interesting. Another
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A few months into this project, I upgraded from Poser 7 to Poser 9. One of the new features of Poser 9 was a new skin rendering model called Subsurface Scattering, or SSS. It is a form of Ambient Occlusion. If you don’t understand this stuff, well neither do I. All I know for sure is that it can sometimes
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As predicted I am back in “creative” mode, and working on Something’s In The Air most of my spare time. My current project is to create an outdoor Sci-Fi/Fantasy Festival, a “Comic-Con” type festival, though that name is TM so I can’t actually call it that. Even worse is that these festivals often have a lot of people dressed up
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I know there hasn’t been a lot of posts this summer, in truth there has not been a lot of news to share in the topics I usually blog about. In between various distractions, I have been working on Something’s In the Air, and have now finished story 5 of 5, with story 4 only half way done and story
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I have been doing “Principal Photography” on Something’s in the Air now for a full year. By my guesstimate, I’m about 2/3rds done (unless I come up with a brilliant plan to add to the project), so maybe another 6 months? Maybe? Anyways, here’s some random spoiler free screenshots of what I have been doing for the past year. Come
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As I have mentioned numerous times before, the “sequel” to Date Ariane, known as Something’s In The Air features an updated model of Ariane, that took quite a bit of work to get right. Redoing over 1000 pictures from Date Ariane is out of the question for the foreseeable future (but I’m not saying never). But if I ever got
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I thought I’d post about a common problem in 3D art, and what I have done to solve it. It is called the “crowd problem” and has been a difficulty with all 3D animation. The first 3D animated movie Toy Story solved it by never having any crowd scenes. AntZ, the second 3D animated movie had hundreds of ants doing
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I ran a 24 hour alpha test on a Something’s In The Air Demo I was thinking of releasing, and it was good that I did. Feedback was decidedly mixed, so for those that keep asking when will I release it, the answer is, “When it is ready!” and it is not ready. As a novice visual novel author, I
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