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10 years ago
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Luna and I have been very busy working in Ren'Py, a Python code-based visual novel creator. She's working on her story world and I'm helping; we're actually working on two novels, one for each of us. We're focusing on hers first, but I'm doing the writing for mine ahead of time. I am not the most talented programmer you'll find but I do have some background, so Python syntax came pretty naturally to me.
The bad news is that it's unlikely that Luna will be interested in sharing these visual novels with the world. I know my mate, and she is always unsatisfied with her work; even if she someday decides it's worth sharing, she'll decide against it because she thinks she can do better artwise.
So... that's the reason why I haven't been posting anything. I have been drawing off and on, but I doubt there are very many people who actually care about my work enough to really miss my posts.
Luna has redesigned her character rather drastically; she now fits in her story world much better now and likes the character design more. So the dracotigress character you all have seen isn't what she looks like anymore. I don't even know if she's comfortable with me sharing the new design; I'll have to speak to her about it.
In other news, we've been playing a lot of games lately (blame the Steam winter sale...). Nothing exciting, mostly Anno and Civ games.
Anyway, that's the way things have been going lately.
The bad news is that it's unlikely that Luna will be interested in sharing these visual novels with the world. I know my mate, and she is always unsatisfied with her work; even if she someday decides it's worth sharing, she'll decide against it because she thinks she can do better artwise.
So... that's the reason why I haven't been posting anything. I have been drawing off and on, but I doubt there are very many people who actually care about my work enough to really miss my posts.
Luna has redesigned her character rather drastically; she now fits in her story world much better now and likes the character design more. So the dracotigress character you all have seen isn't what she looks like anymore. I don't even know if she's comfortable with me sharing the new design; I'll have to speak to her about it.
In other news, we've been playing a lot of games lately (blame the Steam winter sale...). Nothing exciting, mostly Anno and Civ games.
Anyway, that's the way things have been going lately.
And second, if Luna has no intention of ever showing off her work and receiving the praise she deserves, why is she going to all this trouble?
Is Luna afraid that she will only receive derision for her work? Because if she never shows it off, she'll never know how it would really have been received. Her art has never been as good as it is now and it's only getting better and better. Has her work so far ever failed to gather praise for her? Then for what reason does she believe that she will not be well received now?
May Luna find the courage to "get off the damn missile and fire it."
She is doing these things mostly for herself. I suspect that she wants to show things off, but is afraid to. I've been gently encouraging her, and we have a friend who is involved who also is encouraging her.
I hope she brings her work back out too - I dream of opening up a new FA page which showcases us both as a studio - but I don't want to rush her. But you're right about one thing - her work has never been better. I hope to be able to show some of it off sometime soon :)