As you can see, this past week, I’ve started working on some alternate facial expressions for the cast of SHINRAI Saku!
And yes, that does in fact mean that I’ve also finished the final base sprite earlier this week, which patrons can already check out here!
Well, some details still need to be adjusted for it to be truly finished, but it’s really more minor refinement work than anything else.
I figured I’d distance myself a bit from the base sprite and look at it with fresh eyes in a couple of days to better assess things.
And in the meantime, I decided to move on to the next step: giving our base sprites some variation!
I’m tackling this scene by scene, meaning that I took a look at the first scene of the script (which you can check out a preview for here) and made a list of the characters that appear in it and what kinds of facial expressions they’ll need. In this case, the list reads:
- Raiko (Normal, Grumpy, Desperate, Sighing, Thinking)
- Nobara (Normal, Confident, Grin, Laughing, Perplexed, Skeptical)
If you’ve played Broken Beyond Despair, you will have noticed that Nobara retains her facial expressions from that project.
That’s what it will be like for all the recurring characters. There may be an elusive new expression here or there, but for the most part, the expressions I came up with back then still work well enough, so they’re all just getting updated.
By the way, I’ve also shared a teaser for one of Raiko‘s expressions on social media, but I’ll whip up a little showcase image (like the one for Nobara) for her as well, once I’ve finished up more of her expressions.
Anyway, that more or less wraps it up for today, so please enjoy the rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care :3
