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I checked back here out of curiosity and it seems like someone bumped this thread. I don't know if anyone is still curious, but if you are, here's a status update.
The tech stuff went more or less according to schedule. I didn't finish what I intended to do, but I was progressing along at a good pace and I didn't hit a road block or anything. Still, it's clearly a losing proposition to try and make environments in CGI, since it takes too much time to prepare which nullifies any time savings down the road- I think it would be a smarter idea to switch the workflow and instead prepare the characters in advance and render them, while drawing the environments myself.
Anyway, problems with the tech stuff aren't why I haven't been updating the quest. I'm a very private person and I don't want to get into personal details but this has been an extremely difficult year for me, beginning from around February and going straight through to now. In all honesty the difficult circumstances have been going on for longer then that, although it progressed to a worse stage in February. I tried to write it off as time consuming 'hobbies' in one of the first posts in this thread. I'm not entirely sure why I did that except that I really don't want to depress people or involve them in my personal life... although it has the unintentional effect of making me look like a lazy, good for nothing asshole, instead of a stressed out asshole that's in a bad place. Anyway, that was responsible for a lot of the slow down last year, which progressed into a total stoppage this year.
I'm sorry for not coming back on here to give an update until now. I am still interested in continuing this, although it won't be for awhile yet. I still need to take care of a few things more before I can settle back into updating this. I think I'll also have to change my plans a little for the quest- I'll have inevitably lost a bunch of readers from the year long hiatus and nobody wants to start reading a quest at part 5, right? But I think I have a solution to that.
(Attached image is how far I got with Nouille's village, which may not look close to being finished, but it was, for better or worse. Painting would not have taken more then a week or so- at least, not at the crap amateur-hour level of fidelity I was aiming for. Replacing the sky and setting a proper lighting/shadow system, adding smoke and fire effects, tossing in some asteroids, and other assorted polishing steps would have only taken a few hours out of a single day.
I think I'll be doing something else, though. I have some ideas in mind to make it more friendly to new readers.)
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