Meaningful polls results, and artist change

Meaningful poll result (Help me design a minor CG) – Winner: Idea #3

Just want to give a quick update on that poll since I haven’t had the chance to. The winning idea is the idea #3. Also, some of you asked if the breasts could be uncovered, and the answer is: maybe? It depends a lot on the context. I can’t be sure right now. But the details of the CG might differ slightly from the description that I gave, yes.

Meaningful poll result (Which path should I develop next) – Winner: Hero Path

Surprisingly (at least for me), Aya’s path didn’t win. The Hero path ended up winning by a pretty sizeable margin. Unfortunately, I can’t be sure if it’s what the majority truly wants or if I ended up skewing the result by sharing my current uncertainties regarding Aya’s path. I feel kinda bad about it, because, while it does give me more time to work on the path, if I ended up altering the results with my comments, then the polls become meaningless. I’ll try to be more careful from now on. It’s no one’s fault but mine, and in fact, I’m very happy that people want to help alleviate some of the burdens, but I feel like those burdens are kinda parts of my job, and I should be able to deal with them. From now on, please, vote for what you personally want. If the choice is there, then it means that I took whatever responsibility that comes with putting it there.

Anyway, just to make it clear for everyone, here’s the current development timeline:

• This month (August): second (and last) part of the Alternative Ending of the Normal path.

• Next month (September): Abrupt Path

• And then (October, most likely): Start of the Hero Path, which should last around five months.

The next poll for the succeeding Path will be done later on, in a few months.

Artist change

I guess this topic should have been a post in and of itself, but I don’t want to spam too much. But yeah, I’m kinda used to it at this point, but as you might have guessed with the title, one of my artists had decided to stop working with me. Before going over the details, I’ll specify which one. Here’s one of the most prominent CGs he had drawn for the project.

And to be more precise, here’s a list of all the CGs he’s worked on so far:

First doggystyle (in the hotel room), the reverse cowgirl conference call, most of the karaoke scenes, doggystyle/behind the infirmary curtain, as well as two CGs which are still yet to be seen.

He told me that he was dealing with health issues because of all the commissions. Obviously, his well-being is more important than the project. I just wished he’d warned me beforehand so that I could prepare more efficiently, but anyway, what’s done is done. The silver lining here is that he was by far the least productive out of my three artists (one CG per month on average).

I’ve been looking for an artist for more than a week now, and I was lucky enough to find one to my liking a few days ago. He started working on his first CG yesterday. We’re only at the testing phase for now, but if I’m satisfied with the quality of his work, I might make him draw some kind of promo art in order to introduce him to all of you.

For now, this change doesn’t affect the monthly releases. The release for both this month and next month are kinda guaranteed. Still don’t know for October though. I’ll keep you guys informed either way, that’s for sure.

It’s still kinda disappointing. I wanted to not have too much disparity between the art styles, which is why I had hired him in the first place (his art style resembles the one of my main artist). Still, the change might be for the better. I’ve been stressing out lately because there are more and more scenes because of all the endings. If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to restart adding extra CGs here and there.