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Monthly Update: A little side project to recharge...
🕑 Added 2025-03-08 02:24:07 +0000 UTC(blender eevee render)
Some of you might remember around this time last year I mentioned wanting to do some side projects, last month I largely spent my time doing that. Thing is I still consider myself mainly an artist, so these long bouts of doing almost entirely programing or dev work gets tiring. And I guess around a year is when I tend to feel the itch to do some side work lol.
That's largely the focus of this post but end of the post we'll continue with Our Apartment news.
Forest Project
One thing to keep in mind is like Alex, the design of the female here may spark issues on Patreon and also Patreon has issues with "Furry x Human" type content as well.
So while I think some of these issues are unlikely, at least on a plot level I can't predict how that will go. SO, for the full post full of concept images NSFW and more check the post on SubscribeStar! The page should be found easily, I will not link to it from here for obvious reasons.
You will see a lot of the wolf tho :P
The Concept
So, you might be wondering where this fits in the grand scheme. In short there's a few ways.
This concept isn't one I've been sitting on a long time, as such I'm less picky about it. More open to doing odd things and variety.
This concept has goals for animation and games, both cases involve rendering in Unity (using HDRP). Blender rendering is on the table, but just less likely I think.
This project aims for higher fidelity than Our Apartment, there's no android or web releases planned. But if it does happen at all, it's purely for marketing purposes. This higher fidelity focus means I can experiment with higher fidelity effects.
This project aims to have asset releases, I don't know when but the two main characters here will have their models released at some point. Allowing anyone to make animations with them and modifications. The asset releases may be blender and unity focused only.
Now on to what "Forest Project" is about.
The plot summary is basically about a wolf living in isolation in the woods not too far from a big city. While fishing, a girl introduces herself to him, apparently watching him for sometime, she's left the city too to live with nature. Problem is her attire, mere leaves and vines covering barely anything. And thus, the story of the wolf and the curious girl begins!
Quite the simple concept eh? There's a bit more too it of course, and maybe we'll get there in time.
The Wolf
(Unity HDRP render)
The Wolf (pending name Kalan) is a character living on his own far enough out the city to not be found, but not too far that he can't get supplies when he needs to. He has multiple visible scars on his body that predate his survival in the forest. In his excursions to the city his clothing largely covers these scars.
He's made his living in a cave constructed into a house not far from where he meets the fox.
The Fox
The Fox (pending name Naiara) is a character who recently left the city, wanting to escape city life and live among nature. She even wanted her clothes to be of nature, though she lacks the skills to do anything fancy she tries regardless. It's only been a few weeks in the forest surviving off of berries and what hunting she can do. When she stumbles upon the wolf fishing in a lake. Weary of the danger she watches him from a tree for a few days, until curiosity gets the better of her.
Until now she's largely resided in whatever tree suits her.
(blender eevee render)
Last Month
Last month (and the past week-ish) I like 95% finished the models for these two characters minus the clothing. I have not rigged them or anything yet and may not for another couple months.
Due to the NSFW nature of the progress images more will be on SS.
As an FYI the modeling and hair was done in Blender, the texturing in Substance Painter.
They will probably be rigged before I do any clothing, and maybe an animation or two may exist before even that. Just depends, I may not do the clothing myself.
The Future
This might be the last you see of this project for a little while, next time will either be a animation or a different little thing. I've mentioned before that there's an objective for a kind of smaller project similar to Our Apartment that I would use as a template to release content for characters but that blends in with Our Apartment stuff so it's kind of hard to plan that out.
Ulterior Motives
Another reason I wanted to get these models done is a bit of practice, you'll note the hair cards here are quite robust, and that's cause I'm using newer hair tools. Now that I've learned these tools I will either end up using these tools to produce more hair styles for Naomi using existing textures and such, or I may end up redoing Naomis hair entirely.
Just depends, again, mostly on how much time I want to spend on the process. But I now have a solid pathway to new hair items soon!
Originally I wanted to do full particle hair for this project but we'll see, I may come back to that.
Back to Our Apartment!
With this done I' m ready to return to work on Our Apartment, I know I said I'd have a roadmap soon and I will. Gotta do that story review stuff and things. And then there's the asset skinning updates I need to do to stop all the clipping, I dunno maybe I'll skip that just to get to the steam release sooner.
End of this month I plan to have a road map and some animation previews, possibly a build.
Thanks for your support and patience, feedback on this side project is appreciated!
~sacb0y
Comments
Momoiro Software
Hm, I think that's fair, but it's partly an effort to have a simpler story this time around. The concept is less the girl falling into the characters lap and more about lonely people finding each other 🤔 And it's not simply for doing nothing, Kalan gets Naiara's attention by fishing.
BoxOfColors
I had some time, and I enjoy writing, so I thought of another storyline you can consider: The wolf is being hunted by the city because *insert reason here*. One day, the girl finds herself in the same scenario for something she did. As the mob is about to lynch her, the wolf appears in the last second and saves her from certain death. The wolf outruns the mob and brings her to his forest. She asks him why did he save her. He replies that he never wants to see anyone else endure the same torture he experienced. She can never return to the city and must learn from the wolf so that she can survive in the wild. One day, the wolf becomes sick after eating something poisonous, and now she must be the one to save her savior. I think that gives a good premise where they can foster a more believable relationship. Bonus points if you could think of a way where the wolf needs the girl just as much as the girl needs the wolf.
BoxOfColors
The storyline for your side project definitely needs more work. It leans too much into the trope where the cute girl falls into the main character's lap when he did absolutely nothing to deserve that attraction.
DoctorDiscord
Naiara is so. Damn. CUTE.
