Week 312! (Page 429 Finished) (Also No Charges for Weeks 313-316) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 7/26-8/1.

OKAY, WELL, here it is, finally, after a very long and stressful hiatus, I managed to squeak out the final version of page 429 here. It'll be going up publicly tomorrow (the 1st of September), so immediately). It's also the only charged post for the month of August, as I wanted to focus completely on just getting this out the door on time and not worry about script-writing or doodles yet.

I guess you could say this was a bit of a bad spot to start a hiatus, or maybe it was a part of why the hiatus began (besides all the other obvious shit going on this year so far), as it sees Campy and Connor walking out into the city at large to begin their date proper. The next few pages will thus need to feature unique backgrounds with new buildings and locales and stuff, which all require new designs and names and stuff plastered on them like signs and posters and decorations and such so they're not just all blank rectangular prism buildings or something. I kind of cheated by using some of the features of the textures that came with the models for buildings in the 3D program I use to figure out angles and perspective on shots/panels for some of the details on the buildings here, but I still had to create all the stuff with the Arcade, from the name to use for the (currently off) neon sign above the door, the two posters, the window banners, and even the paper signs indicating the arcade being closed that will be readable in the next page. 

So it's a whole extra bunch of stuff that needed to get done in addition to all the other typical steps with a comic. And that's not even mentioning all the new background characters that need to get thought up and designed and drawn to fill the sidewalks, since having no people around our main characters on a city street makes it look like a zombie apocalypse. So this specific part of the storyarc makes it kind of harder to pick things back up with that extra thought process and work that needs to be done. But still, after a long time, I've managed to get it to this point, and hopefully the rest of the year will be much more typical in terms of updates and content.

Also tinier little details, uhhh I suppose for now I'm just using "CR" as the currency denomination, since I've established "credits" as the name for it and using just "C" looked kind of awkward and I didn't have time to invent a new currency symbol. I figure it just works sort of like 'en' in Japan, where one en works more similarly to one American cent than one American dollar. Additionally, "Cade's Arcade" doesn't come from anywhere, it just sounded a little catchy off the top of my head and could make for a sign like the one I ended up drawing.

Anyway, see you all for more typical updates hopefully starting next month, and thank you for your patience and continued support as always.