Hi! We will try to explain our point of view on this:I'm curious, whenever the Dev posts here about Updates and their price rotations, the images have been slightly animated (e.i. Hanako chewing and MC panting), however we don't see that in the game.
So if those particular image(s) has an animated version, why aren't those few at the least in the game then?
I think it'd be neato to have the occasional subtle movements in the game and it seems convenient (at least how I see it from my end here) to get the ones you use for the title update cards into the game itself. Waste not and all that stuff.
Idk, just pitching a thought that ran.
1. These animations for the release are easy to make because they are just a small part of the original cg, so most of the hard to animate stuff can't be seen (Like chest, hands, other characters, etc.). Animating just small portions for the release gif significantly cuts the time required (3 animated images for the release gif can take up to 4 working days, but making animation of one full scale picture could take the same time), which is important when the art for the update is fully finished 4 days before release. But we can't use the animations from the release gifs, because they are like 1/4 of a full picture. And trust us, seeing a blinking character, whose body stays absolutely static in the frame (not breathing, hands not moving) is pretty jarring.
2. These animations require full finished pictures to work with (shade and post production effects), which means that after our art team is done with the cgs for the update, the release could get postposned by another week or even more, just so the animator could cut the images and animate them. And with how tight our schedule is (We released 17 updates this year, 18 if you count the upcoming Degeneracy #2) wasting a week for an animated scene that doesn't include any spice could end up just a waste of our resources and especially time. So we decided it's better to animate actual sex scenes, rather than just general frames, so players could get more for their buck.
3. Sometimes (Like in case with Sonya's update) we do implement a release gif animation into the game, if it doesn't take much time to do so. These cases are rare, but they do happen.
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TL;DR: Adding these simple release gif animation into the game is not easy and is very time consuming, but we try to make it happen when it makes sense.
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