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Thanks, JumpJump and HopefulRomantic!

I'm planning of offering character commissions eventually, so here's me trying to time myself. Here's some generic sprite at the 20-minute mark.

Some school stuff! C:

I use Todoist to keep track of everything that needs to be done. I schedule away must-dos for the week, and it's convenient in that you can set up repeated tasks every X days. Of course, make sure you don't spend more time organizing your schedule than you do working. Also, do your toughest work aft...

How about you borrow a film term - the log line - and try it out on your game? It's basically simplifying your entire game summary into a hook, and that hook is what must sell your game. Persona 3 and 4 could be summed up as 'A group of teenagers find an extra hour in a day', or 'a group of teens fi...

In my mind, the foundation of such stories is desperation: The G is desperate to gain B for some nefarious purpose better left unsaid. -MWG This rings more truth in the BxG genre, where occasionally you'll get 'gotta sleazebag 'em all' MCs. If we're discussing the absolute typical GxB JVN, the foun...

You need a proof of concept - most likely out of your own pockets before people will support you. The 5% will recuperate your initial investment once it kicks off... And if it doesn't, that's why they call it investments. It's easier to convince people you need that taxation when your project is bus...

Moodboards. Put in several artist styles you want, highlight what exactly about the style that you like. This works for designing places too: throwing together a quick board with everything you want in a place - a specific kind of castle, for example - helps you get the result you want.

Some stuff I've been working on recently. Trying to get a workflow out that can be used on multiple styles ;_;

I think example 1's face expresses her personality better, though the gesture of example 2 looks more natural.

The thing that instantly grabbed me was that you've reversed the gestures of both these characters: the confident/sadistic girl is slouching, while the guy asking for forgiveness is bending his torso forwards. Even without faces, you can get the idea across easier by having their body language refle...

I think the problem with art pricing here in LSF can be summed up as a) the exchange rate and b) confidence levels. I don't think the transactions between free artists and free devs really hurt anyone. Free devs who won't or can't put up the money for 3-5 usd sprites aren't more likely to put up tha...

You would have to generate exclusive content I absolutely cannot find elsewhere. The pool of VNs is for me, small enough that after you apply the filter of taste, you're left with a handful of games you actually want to play. Reviews for the paid ones are easy enough to find without a VN-exclusive r...

You could try screenshoting your model/rendering a snapshot and then paint over it. It would cut down the UV-ing and texturing time taken. If you look up Sam Nielson, he has some great tutorials on painting ambient occlusion and just making your stuff look really 3D in general (plus great brush sets...

Leaving aside the fundamentals already mentioned, one of the ways you could level up is to have a really strong direction or artist you want to model yourself after. Right now your stuff is good, but it's also stylistically hovering between realism and semi-realism (leaving aside the anime/flat styl...

Some stuff I made for school. C: Maybe once I have time I'll clean these up and upload them as CC stuff... In case someone wants to make a test VN about Prince Pugglesworth III vs. Roberta the Brute or something. http://i.imgur.com/BVNBDGxl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/P6a6iH5l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bqmG...