I still need to finish the hands, and to fix the ones that aren’t the proper size (I can’t draw similarly sized left and right stuff. Eyes, hands, legs… Everything is affected by my peculiar revision of the human anatomy, considering I couldn’t draw correctly to save my life). Four hands should be redone. v_v
The new haircuts weren’t enough of a distraction to motivate me again. But, pretty much like doing the laundry, I have to go through it if I want clothes.
As you can see, I feel sooooooooooooooooo motivated to draw new hands for the dollmaker. I’m overjoyed to have to make hands. I couldn’t possibly be happier. I… Well, enough sarcasm.
The hands are temporarily delayed because my brain explodes every time I start thinking about them. Alright?
I started a new dress up game instead, because
a) I need to practice vector art and cell shading more often, drawing skills do not magically increase (much to my disappointment)
b) I want to slap advertising on it (no sponsoring this time), to see how much income those things can generate, so I can put some real financial data in the business plan I’m supposed to write, instead of pulling numbers out of thin air. Yep, I said business plan. I’m following some design related entrepreneurship courses, and we have to make one.
Well, I guess you saw the hands update yesterday 
And the make up changes.
I’m now working on the layering system, fixing some old stuff that needed to be. I’ll think about other hands positions for a few weeks.
Changes of the day:
On a totally unrelated note, there’s a 2x exp event on ragnarok online, and I will be playing for a few days :p
I’ve been working on adding the hands in the dollmaker, and have made some progress: so far, 17 shapes of hands are done and working with the future code.
I still have to check for glitches, though - layering, paths (as I’ve changed the directory structure of the graphics for some planned features) - and I also need to add some kind of proper interface for the new things (namely: remove the text links of the test version, add images). The clothing part of the site interface also needs a major revamp.
Over the next few weeks, unfortunately only on the test page, I’ll be adding items in the hands, and adding more hands until I’m SURE I’ve covered every position I’ll ever need, and then (only then) I’ll add sleeves to the existing tops (because if I have to go back and edit more than 200 images, I’m NOT doing it twice…). New tops will have to wait too.
And after that, once I’m sure all the glitches are gone, you’ll see an update. Yep, I know. It will take ages. Sorry. At least you know I AM doing something, right?
Err, the spam blocker of the blog was a little more aggressive than I thought. I found some perfectly good comments in it’s blocked messages list… And I’m afraid to say that all that was blocked before two weeks ago was deleted, before I could notice the problem. If one of your comments was deleted, all my apologies :/
Sorry for the crappy item sketches, but at least it gives an idea of the plans I have.
And here’s the feature that is preventing me from actually adding clothes. I need to do sleeves, if I add hands. But I need to have all the hands positions before I do sleeves. As I don’t want to have to go back and edit a gazillion items (with all the colors), clothing will wait.
I did receive numerous suggestions, here is their status:
I’m fairly aware that the dollmaker lacks clothing, and have received numerous suggestions about that (bunny ears, etc.), but I decided to annoy everyone and work on the base instead. Hence the new noses and eyes.
The plan is to fill as much of the empty space on the flash interface as possible. There will be even more eyes, thicker eyebrows, and new ears. Also, I’m planning to add hands, but that will be complicated coding wise (not to mention I’ll have to edit the old clothing for the sleeves.
There are also things I want to add but can’t do properly due to the skin and hair color changes, such as freckles (so please stop asking), and colored eyebrows.
Stay tuned.
