Poll Release + Riding into 7 Years of This (Pixiv Fanbox)

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So yeah, end of the month and I'll have been posting my crap for seven years now. Time flies, time flies. I've... honestly not got a lot to say about it, really. Much like my 5th Anniversary, I don't have any particularly strong feelings about it. No wistful reminiscing about all the good times over the years. Just kind of is, at this point. I will thank you all for sticking with me and supporting me this long, though. I do greatly appreciate that. Never expected so many people would like my stuff as much as they do, and it's a humbling experience even to this day.

Anyway, there will be something special to celebrate. It won't be a Maiden Level Event like my 5th Anniversary, but it'll be a fairly substantial release. It's gonna be "Oops! All Luna", since that's who I started my 'career' with, so might as well celebrate a milestone with more. It'll be four full sets of differing themes. It was originally gonna be double what I ended up with, and if you saw the secret teaser for Christmas, you'll generally know the other four. The main thing is that I got lazy, busy, distracted with other projects, and other such stuff. Just how it be. The four themes will be as follows.

The rainy car interior from the initial shot. Probably my favorite of the lot, since it's got the nicest vibe. The second will be the Yoga stuff that I teased like a year and a half ago now.

This is probably my least favorite of the sets. I drew a lot of blanks on what to do to make it Yoga-ish. I honestly would have preferred to swap it to something else, but I already had a couple animations started from before and I figured I should utilize them. Considering how many blocks I hit trying to think of stuff for it, probably would have been better to swap it around. x)

Next we've got a night jog sort of situation. It's a theme I've thought about since the SFM days, but never have made anything for it. Well, that changes seven years later, I guess. Pretty decent set, though nothing too amazing here. Just a solid all around set. Some familiar stuff shows up here, just because I'm lazy.

Then the final set is another car set. But this one is a more racy attire for Luna with a different sort of vibe. This set I'm like... 50/50 on. Some good stuff, but also kinda mediocre stuff. Didn't end up as good as I would have liked, but I'm just mixed on this stuff in general. I stare at these things too long that I can't see the forest for the trees and get incapable of looking at them objectively and just notice all the little problems and gripes I have with them instead. It happens. x)

Anyway, that's the four sets. I will probably return to the other four themes at a future date, but no promises on when that will drop. I'll probably just work on them when I get the itch and then stealth drop them out of nowhere. Let them be a surprise. They will see the light of day, since I have a little work done for some of them. Not much, though. x)

Lastly, we've got the upcoming poll at the beginning of the year. This is one of the few times I decided to choose the characters as opposed to letting RNG do its things. For one reason.

That's right, it'll be three of the new models from the redemakester of Ninja Gaiden 2. Ayane, Momiji, and Rachel. There's still a couple others from that game I could use, but I picked these three since I did DOA5 Kasumi a little while ago so I figured I'd let there be a little gap there. And then Irene is kind of... just there. I was kinda iffy on these models at first, seeing them in-game and what not. But with some tweaks and non-UE5 crust, they don't look bad. I've grown quite fond of the way Momiji in particular looks. Ayane is growing on me, as well. Both are like 'yeah, that's Momiji/Ayane' when I look at them in Blender, so that's good. Rachel... not bad but something's a little off about her. Then again I was never a huge fan in the first place. As for Kasumi...

She doesn't look bad, but she doesn't scream Kasumi to me. Looks more like a cosplay of Kasumi than actually Kasumi. Also giving me Nanami vibes, but that's mostly the hair. I'm too used to ponytail Kasumi. But, all I can really say is that if we get an updated Nyotengu model, be it for Prism or possibly NG4, they better do their best. I won't stand for a DOA6 situation again. It better be good. ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)

But yeah, I figure with the new 100 point = 1 animation system I've adopted, this would give these models a chance to get some content in the mean-time. I honestly wouldn't mind doing another full Momiji set with this model, but I don't want 2025 to just be a repeat of 2024... but it could still end up that way, I guess. I'll think about it some, but yeah, this will serve as a start for now.

Anyway, see you on the 28th/1st.