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Oh, who’s this? Catherine’s neighbor? The investigation for the missing horned dog continues!

If you’d like to see what the visual novel script looks like you can check it out here: View Visual Novel script

This is the second chapter to use my new visual novel system. Instead of focusing my energy on doing a lot of comic book art I instead focus on doing writing and scripting.

New Expressions and Backgrounds.

You may notice that Natsumi has a bunch of new expressions, that’s all thanks to the expression builder the visual novel language has. I’m able to draw new sets of eyes and mouths. In blender I can tag them and mix and match them to create different expressions.

There’s also some new backgrounds with this story. I created them using my Blender skills. There’s minimal paint over or color correction. I tried to model as much of the background scenery that I could in Blender itself. The textures are built with procedural materials. I learned how to create and scatter grass using a Youtube tutorial.

I looked into anime shading, but couldn’t figure it out. That’s a task for next time.

I assume as I learn new things potentially these VN stories will get upgraded over time. That’s the goal after all. It functions as one system of art and code. I intend future backgrounds to be also done with Blender with minimal paint-over.