Artemis DevLog (Patreon)

Happy Monday!

Fun week. On my free-time, I decided to play around in Blender. Since introducing Blender into my workflow, I've really haven't had time to really learn it. I guess the real wording is make time for it. The last two updates that featured Blender scenes, I was learning on the spot for the most part. Especially the lewd scenes. Nothing breakthrough yet. Mostly just pulling up animations from the last chapter and just taking my time with refining the animations. It's nice to just animate without the stress of crunch-time and a trying to get a release out the door pressing on you.

Also did some shopping. For the scene featuring Naomi, this exclusive gym is known for celebrities to train without being bothered. So that means I had to find some legally distinct...faces. Fortunately, DAZ has a handful of them lol. Here's a few that I found and these are from the various shops where DAZ assets are sold.

SPEAKING OF DAZ STORE. I learned today our dear friend Wibble has moved away from the DAZ store. Wibble has bestowed many AVN devs with various high quality assets that I'm sure you've seen in many works. He does great work and I wanted to share the link to his DAZ assets. Without him, many of our favorite characters would starve.

Link to Wibble's Store https://3dshards.com/store/gcjellyfish/

I think enough time has passed to chat a bit about CH7. I'll still be mindful of spoilers in case anyone new here hasn't got to it yet. But there were a number of scenes cut onto the cutting room floor. Obviously the Thanksgiving scene was a big one, Katy's Harvest Festival scene, Koko's park/beach walk which wasn't cut but moved to CH8. Just to name a few. In the interview I spoke about how I have the story planned out, but its still very organic. Things change and sometimes I have to adapt the story to these changes and do it well so it doesn't feel abrupt. The climax of Chapter 7 was the result of a rippling of changes that mostly started with Zoe. Her being out of the story for so long due to her character model giving me a hard time to fix. The story she shared about her dad in CH4 gave me something to work with I didn't know until about CH6 when the idea came to me. It helped me gracefully handle a character instead of pulling a poochie the rockin dog with them, while also handling the evolution of another. This is the kind of finessing I put myself through, trying to figure out how to deal with a situation or scene. Instead of going with whatever comes to mind first and leaving it at that. I found working on something, putting it aside to simmer and coming back to it later really helps spot weaker parts of what was created.

Moving the Koko scenes to CH8 was another great move now that I've been writing it. I mentioned during CH7 development that adding Artemis' into those scenes for CH8 was a better fit. The idea has evolved more and the scene carries a lot more weight now than the original idea when I wrote the path back in CH4. And it's really going to set the stage for both characters and what to expect in Books 3 and 4.

Anywho, enough barking. Time to creep back into the basement.

Stay cool and hydrated everyone!

♥ digi