It's been almost a year since I last played this game. Have the CGs improved much?
Some of the artwork has been updated as the developers skill has improved. Overall, the art is the same or similar to last year.
Overall improvement since last year is fairly good! Not as noticible as the improvements I went through late last year from the start, but I still improved in anatomy, shading, color selection, etc.
Carla's artwork from last October - November
Compared to Eillana's latest revamp, done last monthish, and Eilana's original artwork, done I think a year and a half ago now?
I feel like there's some pretty good improvements over time! Obviously not great yet, but steady improvements.
The main thing holding me back from getting everything revamped faster is that each one takes a lot of time and effort! It took me over 30 hours to complete Eilana's last bust image (including rigging it for animation) and, as I do have a full-time job to contend with in addition to gamedev, that's a lot of time to devote solely to art and not to the gameplay!
I was also hesitant on revamping everything immediately as I feel that I've been improving fairly quickly, so if I stop to revamp everything all at once I'll be dissatisfied with it by the end of the process. Better I felt to redo one piece, take a break, do some new art, then go back and redo another. Gives a good mix of learning new techniques and experiences as well as fixing up older artwork in need of work.