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• Background Process
  January 13, 2024 by mykanthrope

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  #Blender, #Clip Studio Paint, #Vector Art, #Background Art, #Pipeline

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• devlog: 06Jan24
  January 06, 2024 by mykanthrope

  10

  #Blender, #CSP, #Unity, #Character Design, #Backgrounds, #Live2d

  The most recent two weeks has been working on backgrounds and getting characters into their outfits and have that up and running inside Unity. Backgrounds take me about a day's worth of time. I want t... Continue reading

  
• 66.6 Percent Live2D
  December 23, 2023 by mykanthrope

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  #Live2D, #Sprites, #NaniNovel, #Unity, #Playmaker

  Where did all the time go? So... I dove in and decided that if I'm already using Live2D in the game for various animations, I should also utilize it for character sprites. I debated it with myself. Th... Continue reading

  
• Reverse Sprites + Live2D
  March 31, 2023 by mykanthrope

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  #Live2D, #Sprites, #Writing

  Been a ton going on life-wise. Mostly lots of stressful things, nothing world ending. I say "nothing world ending" but some chapters come to an end, and new ones start. That liminal space in between i... Continue reading

  
• Sprite Process
  December 23, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Sprites, #Art, #Characters, #Clip Studio Paint

  I had to take a some time to do commissions work. Though I wish I could get a better sense of how many words I've progressed, but because there's code also scattered in it if should count towards a "t... Continue reading

  
• Characters
  November 18, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Writing, #Characters, #Explicit Content

  I had a few issues arise in the writing, but it's solved by adding an additional character to fill out some requirements of this section. I really didn't want to add more to the scope as it were, but... Continue reading

  
• CGs and Layers
  August 27, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Tools, #Art

  "Show, don't tell" is a thing I've heard a lot. Not surprising that as a visual artist, when I think about writing a scene that it comes to me visually long before I think of the words that can form i... Continue reading

  
• Text Printers and Tech
  August 20, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #UI, #Writing, #Tools

  I'm using both Naninovel and Text Animator for this project. While Naninovel has all the tools I need to produce an entire visual novel, I like the extra flair that Text Animator offers. They're repla... Continue reading

  
• Title Card Horror
  August 16, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Art

  Rough Layout for an updated Title Card. The first attempt at the title card two years ago really was to set quickly establish the setting and the characters. I definitely went to my comfort zone of Bi... Continue reading

  
• UI Elements
  August 13, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Tools, #Art, #UI, #Naninovel

  Using CSP to mock-up what I want the UI to look like. I'll have to take it into Unity/Naninovel to actually see what the results are and adjust as necessary. I would kind of like the drop shadow to ha... Continue reading

  
• CG Test
  August 09, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Art, #Tools

  I know it's not a hard rule--really more of a guideline. I saw comic artists talk about trying not to give more than 70% of their ability to any given page. It's a marathon to do these things. Burn ou... Continue reading

  
• Fashioning Sprites
  August 06, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Art, #Characters

  Getting the Band back together! There's still 3 Guest Characters from two years ago that are getting added in mostly peripheral roles. The next step is to design some fashion for each character. At so... Continue reading

  
• Sprites v3 (in progress)
  August 05, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Art, #Characters

  Working on ITERATION 3 of the character sprites. I constantly feel like I can never draw the same thing, especially when there's been a lot of time between the same characters. Drawing 'on-model' is o... Continue reading

  
• Background Tests
  August 04, 2022 by mykanthrope

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  #Tools, #Art

  Blender Grease Pencil > Clip Studio Paint I run into this really big hang up with doing things 'properly' that I need to sit down and draw proper perspective grids, use proper shape language, make pro... Continue reading

  
• Cameolot (Devlog 02)
  September 18, 2020 by mykanthrope

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  #Character Sprites, #Legal, #Unity, #Fungus

  Recently did a poll, which led to a giveaway for a few cameo slots in the game. It did take a little while to get the giveaway up and running because certain formalities needed to take place. These a... Continue reading

  
• This is funguys (Devlog 01)
  September 06, 2020 by mykanthrope

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  #Unity, #Fungus

  I decided I would use Unity + Fungus as the tools for this project. I considered Godot and TyranoBuilder as well. Godot's VN framework (Rakugo) is unfamiliar to me, and it might be a bit much to also... Continue reading

  
• Gathering Sprites (Devlog 00)
  September 02, 2020 by mykanthrope

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  #Characters, #Art

  Gathering up the sprites. This is a first pass on their character sprites. I'm aiming to get fairly simple cel shaded look. But I realize that deadlines hit fast and hard, so it'll probably lower prio... Continue reading