Paralives Update (Patreon)

Hello!

We're always busy working on Paralives but we've been extra busy lately! Here's what happened!

Moved to a different office

Our previous workspace was small, as you can see in this Patreon post. But with Léa joining us full time in less than 2 months, we had to move to a different office and we did that yesterday! It's a big open space with lots of different and interesting companies. We are renting 3 desks there. There will be room for expansion when we recruit more people on the team in the future!

Working on the characters

As you already know, we are focusing on the visual design of the Parafolks at the moment. Lately we've been working on rigging and skinning them. Rigging means that we created a skeleton for them. To animate the 3D model of the character, we can simply animate these bones. Skinning is the process of assigning different parts of the 3D model of the character to these bones. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like behind the scene. On the left, you can see the bones of the legs and on the right you can see the part of the model that is assigned to the left upper leg bone.

Preparing to reveal the characters

In the past months, we worked hard on establishing the visual design of the Parafolks and we're aiming to finally reveal them very soon! We're giving the final touch and then we'll be able to showcase them as well as some Paramaker (character editor) features!


That's about it for this week's update! I hope you guys are having a great week and stay tuned for more Paralives previews soon!

Cheers!

Alex