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I agree with Morinoir about sketches. If I see sketches on a commission page then I think " This person has hardly ever finished a drawing.". I'd also like to see evidence of technical ability (hands, hair, drapery, proper shading, etc.), different characters (male, female, child, old, young, etc.),...

Well, I do the same stuff the others do here, putting stuff on external drive and on my site but I also have this really handy little USB memory stick on my key ring. This way I'm always carrying my projects with me.

Using only CGs sounds perfectly fine to me. The idea to make a single sprite and copy/paste a bunch of facial expressions on a blank face seems not only boring but even wrong to me as well. After all : an expression takes up the whole body, not just the eyes and mouth. On another note : I would look...

Has it been 2 months already since my last post here? Still working on the intro. Finished the part of the logo flying through a shopping street while transforming into the Ameyoko sign (the line version of that is earlier in this thread). I'd show a gif but the thing is over 15 megs in size and I d...

Well, it's official now. I'll join the growing army of "not finished in March". Kudos to the ones who did finish in time. I hope to finish Cat & Cavy in April. No promises though, there'll be a lot of snooker in April

Ah! A hook. Well, I never gave it much thought but when I look at my projects ("Tenkeiteki Tokyo", "The Doomed Diner", the current NaNo "Cat and Cavy") I notice something : I do a lot of research. The backgrounds of Tenkeiteki Tokyo are all based on existing places in Tokyo (even down to studying gr...

My primary key is always an integer that is automatically increased when a new row is inserted (either by a trigger or simply a thing that the DBMS provides) and has a name that is the name of the table suffixed by "_PK". Some purists think this is a "Bad Thing" because it would add a superfluous co...

Thanks Arachni! I guess I'd better show a bit of progress too. The sprites are taking a lot of time. I'm pretty confident I won't finish before the end of March (what else is new?). Here's a bit of Caitlin and the process of how she's drawn : http://www.fusebloware.com/Pics/Catcavy/Process.jpg For t...

I do it by hand too. I doodle on my animation disc, working from drawings I get ideas for the story. The disc is handy because I can draw anywhere, it sits nicely in my lap and it turns effortlessly (unlike sketch books or the Cintiq). Of course, I end up with heaps of 12 fields but they come in pac...

He's a wuss, she's a puss. Get ready for the petploitation sensation of 1972! http://www.fusebloware.com/Pics/Catcavy/Catcavy.jpg Detective Ido of homicide has lost his partner to a crazy axe-wielding turtle. His chief has chosen one of those crazy cats of the highway patrol as his new partner. Ido...

Thanks! Tenkeiteki needs to wait till after NaNoReNo though. As long as I finish it before the Summer Olympics of 2020, I'll be happy (the Olympics play a part in the story). Amazingly, Tenkeiteki started off as a 2 month project. At the time I didn't realize that it wouldn't be the first two months...

I'm just starting out composing music and I'm really interested in making music for visual novels. I just don't know where to start. I'd like peoples opinions on what I've written so far. I feel like I'm not getting constructive criticism from my friends. https://soundcloud.com/user-249701118 DISCL...

I would definitely like seeing a couple of frames of animation to go from pose to pose. It's something that sets a visual novel apart from the bulk when done right. Actually, at the very least there should be different poses for different expressions. Too often only the face changes while the body s...

So uh... it's almost that time of the year guys... you know... NaNoRenO 2018 Visual Novel Game Jam... just a reminder... :mrgreen: "POOF" (Disappears) Oh... that one, yeah. I guess I could have another crack at "The Doomed Diner". After all, my main project "Tenkeiteki Tokyo" only needs to be finis...

Hi Sasquatchii, if you're shading your work then you'd want to use at least 3 shades. With 2 shades you can only model in the light part of the face, with an extra dark you can also model the shadow part of the face. Practicing shading requires good references (sunny photos). Look for the 5 major sh...