#goddd i need to find some program for making pixel art textures trying to do this shit in procreate killed me

[sonic-adventure-3]

progress for today! mainly tedious invisible/subtle shit. i segmented her arms and legs in preparation for posing, studied the textures on a few sonic models (sonic r tails, gamecube sa2 shadow, heroes rouge), created a texture separately and shifted the palette a bit, applied said texture (sooooo shittily. ignore the fucking jpeg compression transferring files from my ipad to my phone to my laptop sucks ass and i fucked up okay. also i still dont get uvs or textures despite the studying), and modelled new wheels.

im not totally set on this yet but for now i've changed her skates into real normal skates with an almost sensical rail attachment system akin to like joycons or something. im super conflicted abt this cause on the one hand i think it's cooler and suits her better all around, but it breaks my immersion so bad to imagine her traversing super varied terrain in these, and why the fuck am i making her design MORE complicated im so screwed. on the other hand the nonsense sphere wheels were getting to me so bad i couldnt stand them any more, extreme gear is so fucking hard to designnnn i couldnt understand it at all, and the floaty sci fi shit of ex gear also clashed with her 1920s paperboy/aviator shtick, but the all-terrain-ness and speed and pre-established-ness or of ex gear is soooo alluring. idk man idk

to do next: unfuck textures (again. differently this time), make ribbon (im thinking just a transparent texture is the way to go this time, i tried modelling it a couple times today but it's just way too small), make hand poses (rock, paper, scissors, gun), pose.

i think we're closer to the finish line than the start now..........