Hey all, I wanted to drop in and officially say hello since I really have not done that yet. If you don't know, I am a new member of the
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team and very little is known about me, so I did want to provide a little info about that and my thoughts about some of the complaints. (well, at least one of the complaints

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All the complaints about the expressions I totally get and somewhat agree. But at the same time, I cannot completely fault MrDots for it because of the limited time he has to make the renders and build out the script/game. It can be very time consuming to focus on all the little details like that when you know there is a deadline. Having to make a 1000+ renders as well as many animations in such a short amount of time along with everything else that needs to be done is very difficult. (And that doesn’t count anything that needs to be done over again)
I am sure if he did not have that restriction of time, he would put way more focus into the little details like expressions. When it comes time to start making another game, I believe they will want to get away from the “set release date” which will give him a little more wiggle room and he can pay closer attention to things like that, but at the same time still try and get it done in a reasonable amount of time.
I know when I was making all of the Shortcake date scenes, I really tried my best to use different expressions here and there. But also I wanted to make sure I used the same expressions that MrDots uses as to keep the scenes feeling like they belonged in the game and not just thrown in there by some random person lol. I was trying to pay attention to all the little details too as I made the scenes. (I have a bit of an OCD problem when it comes to that

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Of course, nobody knows this, but from the time I started making the renders (about 3 months ago) until literally the last night before it had to be released, the game wound up with about 270ish renders (including the doughnut images), but I made closer to maybe 800 renders because I had to continually redo them for various issues, imperfections and tweaks that I personally just could not tolerate. (Basically, because I am still learning and new to rendering.) Making matters harder, I really had no specific script to follow since it wasn't written yet, so I pretty much had to guess how things would flow, and what would be needed. I also had to deal with real life (having surgery) and my day job of course. I worked very hard on this, and the last week was full of very sleepless nights.
It is my hope that with me helping more and more down the road, these complaints become rarer, and MrDots can put more focus into quality, not quantity. I think having someone else help him make scenes will really take a lot of pressure off him. I am not saying for sure that I will being doing this on a permanent/regular basis yet since this was sort of a trial run to see how the fans would like my story and the renders, but so far I feel that the majority of you all did enjoy the Shortcake scenes (at least I have not seen any major complaints about it…...yet).
I wish I could say that I did all of her scenes, but since I have a full time job and I don't have the best hardware, I was pretty limited with some of the things I was able to do, so the scenes in her bedroom sadly were not mine. I really wanted to have more animation for my scenes, but even just rendering a simple 3-4 second looping clip in 4k, takes me 12+ hours, and I cannot be without my computer that long while I am working my day job.
If this becomes a more common thing for me, I really want to get a new GPU (right now only working with a single RTX 3060 and an older GTX 1070), but living alone and not doing this as an actual job that provides an income makes that very hard. I am very happy to help MrDots where I can and I am not doing this for any compensation, nor would I ask it of him. I am doing this because I want to see great things from him and his games, and if I can help with that, I will. But I can only do so much given my limitations.
Hopefully, as time goes on, you all will see an improvement as I do more scenes and that allows MrDots more time to focus on everything else. (If things go that way of course) I really hope we are able produce better quality content for all of you. Thanks!