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Dev Diary, June 6th, 2025

Added 2025-06-06 12:00:13 +0000 UTC

As mentioned last week, I've been working on the free-roam this week. As it's the only free-roam of the episode, I've decided not to think too much about time pressure and deadlines, and just fill it with as much content as possible. Honestly, it's been a real blast so far.

I started with the tougher scenes, which involve a lot of people, so that part is now done.

213 renders were completed. Meaning we broke the 2,5k mark and are now at 2,660 so far. Animations totals 21,532 frames.

But I had time to do more than just renders this week. Already back in August of 2021, I made the first character for U4iA. You met her slightly at the end of Leap of Faith if you played that, where she passes Cece in the park at the very end. She's also in the video after the credits. This is what she looks like.

Now that she was going to be introduced into the U4iA universe, I had a good look at the model and decided it was not good enough. It's outdated, and there have been improvements to models since then, and I've also learned a lot of new things. So I remodelled her completely into this.

But Slockie - the freckles master - told me that those freckles were simply not gonna cut it, so I made a few changes once again. So... meet Siwan... version 3. And... you might freshen up on the basics of Chess if you want to impress her.

This week, I also had some fun with the Fluid Painter in Blender, and Sea was more than happy to join up for some mischief in the kitchen. This is the result, and there should be plenty of situations where fluids could come in handy; therefore, this was a fun and valuable learning experience.