Something needs to be cleared up!
I'm going to blow my top at the next person who says I can't do images!
I CHOOSE to do functional images like the one below that moves the story along and focuses on facial expressions and dialogue, and I do thousands of them per update. This is the reason I give you several updates a year as opposed to a dev that takes OVER a year to put something out!
Notice how detailed Lydia's expression is, having said that this is also a well lit, well composed, rule of 3rd image. It conveys what she's feeling based on the last line of dialogue and takes 5-10 minutes to render and is 1.3mb, and even less when I compress to .webp (that's average for most of my images), and it needs to because I do so many!
The image below is of Maria from the next game. It's a custom image I spent 2 hours setting up and another 30-60 minutes postworking. I set the amount of iterations and render quality to MAX, it took 10 hours and it's 11mb uncompressed.
So to anyone's "Yours aren't the best images I've ever seen." or "This is not as good as XYZ dev." That's by choice, because the way I set One Day at a Time up in the beginning is with functional images that serve the story.
So can I do images like Ocean, Kentyrrr, Wilson Wonka, YES! As displayed in the image above (I'm friends with all those guys btw). Do I choose to give you guys more quantity and more updates to the game, at the sacrifice of image quality, that answer is also yes!
Having said that I will be doubling the quality of the images for the next game and not having characters open and close their mouths for every line of dialogue in the next game. But, I started One Day at a Time like that, and even though I've gotten S-Tier at doing images. I choose functional ones that serve the story and bring you faster updates! I'll still do this to a degree with the next game, because the story is the most important part to me and I need images that help tell it. But the overall skin textures of the models will be better and they'll be less but higher quality images. So as a final thought to doubters. I know what the fuck I'm doing and it's by choice!
Zoey drops the mic and leaves wishing you all well!
Comments (5)
The quality IMO is great already. I mean look how large a percentage of AVNs that use images that don't look anywhere close to realistic - as in cartoons.
Ignore the trolls, those of us that support you here do so because we like your work. Simple if I thought you were useless at images or writing,I wouldn't support you
Yeah, that's bullshit when they take over a year between updates. You forget almost everything in that time.
Zoey, don't take it personally. Opinions are like assholes: everyone's got one, and many of them stink.
I don't most times anymore, but it's hard not to when someone comes out and tells you, you have no talent based on a choice you made, they know nothing about.