Weekly WIP #82 (Boo! Where's the release?!)

•  Black Menagerie (Name Undetermined) Tekken - Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort
•  Christmas 2024

•  I had to scroll down a bit to recall what Weekly # this should be. Seems I went on a mini-release streak there.

•  Christmas 2024 is ready to render fully. Amazing. Usually, I'm still tweaking the final bits a week before release. I always start early though so I make sure to get something out in time. This year, well, is a hell of a lot less complicated than last year; or even the Gwen before that. It did hit an early snag though and ended up revamped fully aside from who was the focus. In the end it's a much calmer style this time around, but it fits the theme, scene and characters well. Other than that and this one preview, it'll have to wait til Christmas.

•  I had hit some issues finding suitable (or at least interesting to my personal choice) music for the next Black Menagerie. A few days ago, I finally came across some music that clicked, and the project has taken off.

• I had the 'who' mostly sorted; Emilie "Lili" de Rochefort from Tekken, though Reina was a very close second and probably will be used sooner than later.  The scene build is a bit more detail than I need, of course, but I'm enjoying piecing it together. Instead of it being purely set in a club, this one is more like a personal setup in a penthouse apartment. Since Lili is Monégasque (from the Principality of Monaco), I went with trying to make the scene feel Mediterranean/French/Italian.

• The lounging lady in pale red isn't anyone specific; just one of the watchers/buyers. She's actually a mix up of a couple characters since the base had some super janky parts, along with some texture edits of my own. A much smaller gathering for the show this time as well. 3-5 tops. Panam had 7, but alas they weren't even seen.

•  This one is also a lot easier on the eyes for flashing. A softer feel to the music helps, for one thing, and the general setup idea keeps it toned down too.  Rich rather than rave. And lastly for it, I'm trying out my own settings for Ambient Occlusion. I've been using the settings someone else (who I can't recall) used, but they just don't click right for me. So, maybe I'll get that sorted as well.  Keeping in mind that a lot of models simply don't support AO at all, thus, not every project can even have that turned on.

Weekly WIP #78

•  Black Menagerie: Panam Palmer - Cyberpunk 2077
•  Christmas 2024: ???? - ????

• Reverse order just to get it out of the way. CHRISTMAS IN JULY?! Yeah. (Pics with snowman) It's the only holiday I feel compelled to always make something for and to be sure I always get something for it I start them early in case I get backed up on projects or my initial idea doesn't work. I worked Retail for many years and the holiday rush sucked. I don't want to have to holiday rush these, so. Very early WIP of it, of course, and it's already taken a couple drastic changes, somewhat proving my point of an early start.

• Can anyone guess who the girl is? Wait, what? One girl? No (s) added? Singular?! Yup, just the one this time around and it's going to be a bit smaller in general scope. Right now it's the main girl and 4 backgrounders.

• BM - Panam section 1 still needs its final adjustments, then it's ready. Section 2-4, 4 being the credits as well as animation, should come out faster now that the scene is set. Building the scene can sometimes be harder to get set then the animation. Thought I'd show a few of the bits with writing that might go unnoticed. I mean after all, who wants to read when the 'Ramma gets ta Jamma', right? Anyways... The Injector is in her, so that writing wouldn't have been seen anyways.

• Chatted it over with my QA Consultant (friend) about the WIP faded watermark thing on these. Decided it's not really needed, but why not anyways? I know of other creators who had to constantly rebuke comments about 'unfinished work' because people kept reloading pics/video clips they posted as WIP as full releases elsewhere.

Merry Christmas!

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