Subject: Thank you! And some details on how I made it.
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Posted on: 2021-10-04 13:42:28 UTC

For this comic, and the illustrations in the chapters of The Worlds without Authors, I used a combination of several games and programs.These are: - Koikatu and its bundled Chara Studio (with mods. Lots of mods.) - Vector Thrust - OpenOffice Impress (basically a free, open source Powerpoint clone) - MS Paint - Paint.net

Let's go in sequence. For scenes featuring characters, I use Koikatu. It is technically a Japanese H-game, but it is has what is perhaps the most robust 3D anime character maker out there. Bundled with the game is the Chara Studio, which is basically a 3D sandbox where you can build your own static or somewhat animated scenes. While on its own it would be fairly limited in settings, I have installed a huge modpack for it which adds... welll, a bit of everything really. All the locations in the comic, for example, are mods, as are some of the clothes worn by the characters.

For aerial combat scenes, instead, the game I use is Vector Thrust. It is an Ace Combat clone with cel-shaded graphics (to keep with the anime look), and while its development has been abandoned it is more than useable for my ends. I do have mods installed for this as well, and I actually kind of made my own as I personally made several paint schemes featured in the illustrations.

The screenshots from either most of the times are used as-is as illustrations for TWWA, but sometimes I make a pass through MS Paint or Paint.net to get rid of some artifacts (like, for example, clothes glitching through other clothes) or make some effect that would be impossible or time-consuming to obtain in Chara Studio (overlaying a partially transparent version of a scene to one without one of the characters is perfect for making said character a ghost or spirit).

If I'm making a comic I then use OpenOffice Impress. Drag the screenshots in, resize and cut them accordingly, add some ballons and a few white lines to act as panel separation, and the job is pretty much done. A bit time consuming, but actually pretty easy!

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