The Making of: Lucy (Patreon)

As a team, we go through multiple rounds of revisions to fine-tune important details, such as gesture, stance, expression, and more, before a sprite makes it into the game. It was especially important for Lucy considering she's a main character!

Typically, we start off with an outline. Here's the original outline of Lucy before we made major modifications.

So far, so good! However, Nika and I weren't happy with the end result, which ended up looking like this.

In the end, I decided to request a complete rework of Lucy’s design. I wanted her to feel sexier and more lustful. As a result, we ultimately scrapped the earlier version of Lucy you see above and started from the top to bottom.

After some back and forth with Nika (for some reason I reeeeally harped on making her skirt look denim), we ended up with what I call "Production-level Lucy".