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[pumpkin-spike18]

✨Weekly Progress #47✨

On time for two weeks in a row, I'm on a roll!! (holy cow that rhyme sucks...)

To start off, I do want to note that my commissions are closing in 3 days! You can find more information on my pinned post. I will not be taking on new work with clients that haven't been discussed prior to 12/1.

Demon Prince doodles

Fin all sprites for fangame (5.5/5.5)

Initial Winter Jam pose keyframes

Lined Winter Jam animation character frames

Starlight Meets the City Lights

This Winter Jam, we bring to you the heartwarming story of an alien crash landing in NYC in the middle of winter.

Starlight Meets the City Lights is an ambitiously cinematic indie visual novel that will be releasing in January 2025! Just look at what the team has accomplished so far!

(Looks like bsky videos don't preview here on tumblr, pretty please click the links to take a look? 🥺 I promise it's really pretty!! 🌠)

And of course, a preview of my part in this! It's the first time I've worked on such a large animation.

Initial attempts:

There's a surprising lot to think about for animation. Anatomy, physics, consistency... I'm still learning so I'm telling myself it won't be perfect... But I'll be as perfect as I can be!! 🎃

Soft Sapporo Fall

Here's a preview of the sprites I made for a Golden Kamuy fangame! Many artists participated in this project and you'll be able to see a lot of really incredible art and love put into this game!

(Usami terrified me as I drew him...)

[arenacircusvn]

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#ArenaCircus Devlog 11/16 #vndev #visualnovel

SCENES

1 new job, featuring variations for Natalia, Fenris, and Santana

1 Lucy/Santana scene

1 Natalia scene

1 Fenris/Leslie scene

MUSIC

And! And! The composer just finished Aldrich’s song! It is beautiful and wonderful and I can’t wait to share it with you guys. I’m going to see about getting some samples of the songs that have bee n completed so I can post them in a future devlog.

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE

Programming and testing the current scenes. Some of them have already been programmed and tested, so I don’t think it’ll take long. The biggest thing will be testing the main scenes after the free roam, since I’ve been focusing on getting the free roam done. I’m thinking I’ll do what I did last week again and try to write one more scene a day to tie it all together. So essentially:

4 free roam scenes (you can follow me on twitter @capminyan to vote for which characters you’d like to see scenes of!)

2 more job scenes

2 CGs (The lineart is compelete, they just need to be colored)

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I’m anxious to continue redrawing the sprites, but I probably won’t have time this week, unfortunately. But, I’m hoping to get at least aldrich and lilie done, along with all their outfits, by the end of the year! And that way I can start offering fun new outfit packs to patrons, since that’s been a promise long time coming.

On that note, question for you guys!

So I will be keeping most of the assets in the free version of Arena Circus the way they are. But since I’m updating the sprites, the clothing needs to be updated to. I want to just get rid of the old sprites and have them in the art book for posterity, and put the new sprites in the free version. But there have been complaints about the new sprites. I’m not sure I’ll have the capacity to draw outfits for both sets of sprites. So there are two options here.

1. Keep the old sprites in the free version but stop supporting outfit updates for them

2. Put the new sprites in the free version and include outfits as normal (patrons would get additional outfits)

So what would you guys prefer? Comment below with your choice! I’ll probably do a poll on twitter as well.

I don’t want to make three versions of the games because that would just be a lot of hassle. I can’t please everybody, and hopefully those who don’t like the new sprites will warm up to them eventually. I’ve explained a few times why I’m redoing the sprites, so if you’re curious check out former devlogs. ��