One year later...

[strangetomato]

Hey, I just realized that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the day I posted the prologue to Strangetown, Here we Come. If I was more on the ball, I could have made an effort to post the next update on that day, but I completely forgot about it instead. I have been making baby steps towards the next update, though, so that's good. Looking back, I remember my initial burst of activity, where I was posting a new chapter every week, and sometimes more than that (I think I even did three in one week, at one point). Of course, the chapters were much shorter then, and I was working from photos I had already shot from playing the hood Prosperity Challenge style. I still play it like that, but much more slowly, and scenes are more posed and planned out.

To celebrate the ocassion, I thought I'd share a couple of painting recolours that I created using some of those great JRO drawings by beyondheroism__ and my SO. I'm working on more of these too, so I'll eventually do a bigger download post.





Drawing of Johnny, Ripp, and Ophelia by my SO, recoloured on the mesh for "Two Dogs and an Olive" by Mixt Hupp from Nightlife (the nod to Picasso).

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Drawing of Johnny, Ripp, and Ophelia by beyondheroism__, recoloured on the mesh for A Stroke from Nightlife (which doesn't reference anything specific, that I know of... correct me if I'm wrong).

I love how you can still see the touch of red on the side of the canvas in this one. It makes it look like this was painted over a different painting, and I like that. It makes it seem like it was bought at a student show for a bargain (you can find some great stuff that way). The staples are a nice detail too, even if they should be on the back of the canvas.

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That's a little glimpse of some renovations I've been making at the Specter estate. This is, of course, Ophelia's room. The dogs love the bay window.




Just like Nervous loves his new fish tank.

You'll see more of the new look in the next update.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, the painting with the birds isn't small either, so I'm sorry about that. That Nightlife mesh takes up four spaces on the wall. I should try to find a smaller mesh in the right format too, but that one was easily the best match to the drawing (all I had to do was clone a little extra space in at the bottom).

The JRO in scarves drawing is a nice small size, though, so it's more useful.

I'm pretty happy with the house now, though it took me way to long to work it out. I enjoy decorating and building in the game, but I just end up working on it forever, obsessing over tiny details that nobody will ever notice. :P

Thank you. It's hard to believe it's been a whole year already. :) It's been fun.

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Nah, the painting with the birds is just fine! (I already found a nice spot for it in one of my lots ;) ). He, when I first made some recolors of my Legacy portraits I used some meshes from MTS2 and I didn't pay attention to the "real" size of them in game.

When I finally used them, they were ridiculously large! (I think you once mentioned that about Rose Mary and Buck's wedding portraits :D). I had to ditch them in the end, because they take too much space.

It looks great, so I guess those tiny details you've been working at will actually get noticed in the end. I like to decorate, but I spend a long time looking through the catalogue (and the tiny thumbnails don't help either, must be my resolution).

I hope you keep having fun for the rest of the story (and any other projects you may have).