Chapter 3c is out: they all breathe now (Patreon)

Chapter 3c is live on itch and in the hub post, same links as always.

A week ago I showed you the first living sprites. This is the whole cast: every character sprite from the prologue through Chapter 3 breathes and blinks now, in its own rhythm. Serith at the map table, Avel at night, the innkeeper, the steward, Brennar in the cell, Halwen, Mara, the old knight, the captain, the guards. All of them.

And the voiced lines move. About 1,200 of them, each one timed from its own recording.

Watch a 14-second clip with sound (YouTube)

Your poll: 83% of you wanted lip movement on by default, nobody wanted it off, the rest didn't mind. So that is how it ships. The switch is in Preferences > Animation either way.

Also in this build: an animated cold open before the prologue, with sound. The raider fight on the surface is animated now. The prologue got a pacing pass. And there are two Confidants in the credits now. Thank you, DeathSerpent and Trent Geaudreau.

Chapter 4 is coming along, voices, backgrounds, animations, and it gets the living sprites from the start. Every new face there is built with breath, blink and lip movement, same pipeline. I'll keep showing the process here.

The download is about 1.3 GB now. Saves carry over.

One practical note: I'm away from the render machine until early September. Posts continue, Discord and questions too, only the heavy production pauses for those weeks.

Thank you for being here. Go watch her breathe.