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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As you know I have been spending a lot of time working on my Visual Novel rather than writing in this blog, which is a good thing, because I want to get it done just as much as some of you want to play it. Part of doing this project faster and better involves extensive use of the 3D Content
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I’ve been doing lots of cool stuff for the sequel game Something’s In The Air (SITA), but I don’t want to show it all because that would spoil the game. But a few teaser renders wouldn’t hurt. Back in October 2010, I was showing off sets I built for downtown locations. Those sets will show up in SITA as well,
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After struggling with the intricacies of slider bars, trying to balance between matching the proportions of “classic” Ariane, and what actually looks good, I ultimately decided to just keep it simple. I found a pre-designed V4 head that is close, made a grand total of 8 minor adjustments to get closer, and deemed it “close enough”. The new Ariane is
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One of the changes I made to the 7.1 version was to replace the hostess at the strip club with a new model, because the old hostess just can’t cut it anymore. Now after working with a bunch of new models and creating the sequel, it is becoming more and more obvious that Ariane herself needs to be updated. I
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As promised, I am showing some new stuff I’m working on for the dating game. I was hoping to be finished by now but I keep getting distracted by other matters. All I can say is it will be done when it is done. The sequel is likely going to be in Visual Novel format, which means I can do
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