Why the sudden comments from people other than primorge? Has the forum software update revived all the bots? :-)

Boni posted at 8:47 AM Fri, 17 September 2021 - #4427610

I have Antonia from 2008 ... and I find her innovative even for today ... the duel hip parts so you can bend from the hip and move the hip around without rotating the whole figure is quite a welcome feature.  When do you expect to release your new version of Antonia? 

Realistically? Probably in the early to mid 2030s, after I retire. :smile:

Seriously, I have a growing list of things I'd like to make for Antonia, and I still like to share things and exchange experiences. But I'm also still an insufferable perfectionist, and this time around I am going to try not to burn myself out by getting too ambitious. So I'll basically work on whatever I feel like, take breaks whenever I feel like and not press forward too hard on anything. This is my hobby, and it's supposed to be fun, right? That means, among other things, that I have maybe one or two hours a day max in me before things start to feel less like fun and more like a second unpaid job.

To be a bit more specific: if the texturing work goes well, I imagine having a new CCA-licensed skin for her by the end of the year is not too unrealistic. I'd like to make a set of every day clothes for her, too, which I can just release as I go. Other things, like the weight map edit I've started on, will need a bit more coordination. The eventual goal is to make myself a new base version of Antonia that works just the way I like it, probably lo-res, weight-mapped, with my old "A" type UV map and an improved and extended set of expression morphs. When I'm happy with that, I'll share it, but I don't know how much time I'll feel like spending on polishing her so that she's generally usable.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.