Log in[~Live2D Miki Preview!~]
We shared this openly with all our fans on Twitter last night, but I didn't get around to posting it last minute on here for everyone. ^^"
Last night, our Live2D artist/animator provided a early preview for how Miki's idle animation is looking so far! We're still having her outfits animated, along with wanting to have wetting, messing and fart related animations for when that appears in-game.
For now, the main thing is Miki's idle animation and making sure we have that handled just right, then we'll get into her outfits and diaper animations, etc. :P
It'll be a lot of work and costs involved in order to properly include Live2D for the entire cast, as we're looking at easily 60+ characters. We're working on the main girls with routes firstly for priority, then the next important characters and working our way down from there.
We fully expect this to take the rest of the project's development for the base game, before we see all of this for every character. The big factor will be monthly funding based on our budget to cover the costs, so the higher our monthly funding becomes, the better off we'll be, when it comes to doing everything steadily, etc. <3
(Despite what Subscribestar shows with our funding goals, there's actually a decent few hundred dollar gap in what we actually receive. This is a visual bug that's supposedly being fixed, but we have no timeline on when our funding goals will actually properly display what we're really sitting at. Just understand that if our $2,000 goal says its been reached, it's actually a few hundred less than that is what we're really bringing in.)
Without further ado! I present Miki's Live2D idle animation! Keep in mind, there's room for tweaks to be made still, so this isn't the final result.
[We suggest when hitting play on the video, full-screen it and you'll see everything in a more ideal manner. Downloading it might let you loop the animation to see how she'd look in-game roughly. ^^]
That looks great for the first animation. As I mentioned earlier, for testing purposes, you could consider Miki as a mascot for the game, explaining the story and the game itself.
Thanks!~ ^^ And for sure! We'd like to put Miki's Live2D assets into a mini sandbox scene for testing purposes in general, as we'll want to make sure everything's functioning and looking right, before we apply her to the entire game. (Same for other characters) But we could probably put a mini preview/test into the game where players can see everything in action for fuller expectations! <3
Along with Nekopara, you can also check vtuber models on YouTube for references, and there are tutorials on integrating Live2D on Ren'Py in case you encounter a problem.
For sure! ^^ Thank you for mentioning those as well! <3