Apologies for the late log. It was posted on time to other places, but the day just killed me before I could post it to GameJolt!

Last week, we saw some sketches and lineart of background #2, and today, Mizu sent us the completed version! Time to show off:

If you remember from last week, that mural in the center of the ground floor used to be a nice smiley. I was all for keeping smileys in the backgrounds as a sort of easter egg hunt, but alas, Dovah disagreed :( I’ll have to find some other way to sneakily add easter eggs! Keep it a secret from Dovah, :ok:.

Mizu’s started work on background #3 now, so hopefully that will be ready for next week. In the meantime…let’s look at the background for one of our CGs. I may have mentioned it before, but CGs are being split between Mizu and Paradise, with Mizu doing the backgrounds and Paradise focusing on the characters.

The process for making CGs is:

1. Paradise sketches character pose

2. Mizu sketches background behind pose

3. Mizu creates background (colors/paints, etc.; not line arting for CG BGs)

4. Paradise colors and finishes up characters

It’s a little bit of a process, especially since the files have to be passed around (and Mizu is in the opposite time zone). But that just means that Mizu is working on multiple backgrounds at once while waiting for other things to happen (like a character pose sketch for the next CG).

CG #1 is the scene when Rivian’s arrival to the grand hall is first announced. He’s a shy kid, and everyone keeps staring at him :(

So first, Paradise sketches the pose, something likeee

Next, Mizu sketches the background…

Do you see all those people in the background? Mizu’s gotta color all their fancy party clothes. She curses our choice of setting on a daily basis because of all the fine detailing and coloring work.

Dat coloring…We left all the clothing coloring etc. to Mizu. The main direction given was with the lighting (warm, bright, golden). You can see how she’s using a painting style rather than digital line art style. She’s much happier with painting, so maybe we can pull a couple extra CGs out of her… hehe.

Now she passed the CG BG file back over to Paradise, and Paradise colored in Rivian.

Et voila! Our first CG is complete! (There’s also a version with his eyes closed like in the background sketch).