#bicoris

And we've finally hit the double digits! Thank you to everyone for sticking with the series so far, I hope you enjoy!

The soundtrack is composed by @theelectricdreamsofddx, with Gregorsa’s theme by @zestychille, and the background art and entire ending shot are by https://www.instagram.com/sinclairedelune ! They're all extremely talented, so be sure to give their stuff a look!

The OST for the latest episode can be found here:

If you’d like to support what comes next, there’s a Patreon! $1 gets you a link to the Discord, $2 gets access to early updates and some bonus content, $5 for your name in credits and more bonus content, $20 and $40 for black-and-white and colored commissions of insect or arachnid characters respectively, and $100 if you want a fully rigged, animatable model of your own!

There is also a store. You can buy stickers, an early webcomic take on HBG, unused storyboards and scripts, and Sophodra's model!

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And the second model is finished at last!!! This was quite an effort, as I'm sure you saw if you were keeping up on the Tumblr. In order to make the pupils and eyelashes wrap properly over pyramid-shaped eyes, I had to contrive a VERY unconventional rig with lots of parts, and then lots of workarounds to make those parts all work nicely together. This was the third try on making a rig for her eyes, too!!! But at last it is DONE!!!

Here is the model that caused me so much trouble. Bicoris, the orchid mantis, who is as painful to deal with in person as she is to model.

All right, first update for episode ten! Double digits!!! Took a break last week, as you probably noticed. (Well, mostly a break.) I'm happy to say that the script for this episode is complete! Not only that, but the storyboard is very close to done!!! Here we see some concept art of the characters we'll be seeing in the new episode! It's pretty old art, as you can tell by the fact that there's some yellow used in it. Apart from that, though, I shouldn't be drifting far from these designs. Man, you would *not* believe how long I've been eagerly waiting to finally show these characters!! I'll be taking a few more break weeks over the course of working on this episode, in order to visit different family members. Taking that into consideration, this episode will probably take 4-5 months to complete. However, it should be done in time for the new year! I'll aim to finish the storyboard over the weekend. Next week, I'll record all the voices and set up the animatic, then ship that off to DDX.exe so she can get started on music, and SinclaireDeLune so she can get started on backgrounds. Then, break week to visit family. After that, a whooole lot of work on character models, which should take about two weeks. Staging should take another two weeks. Another two break weeks to visit more family. When I get back, background work, which hopefully shouldn't take much more than a week. Then, a month of animation (or less, with Bruzzy's help!), a week for Gregorsa's stuff, and we're done!!! Can't wait to complete and share this one. Until next time!

Assistant links:

DDX.exe: https://ddxexe.bandcamp.com/

SinclaireDeLune: https://www.instagram.com/sinclairedelune

This was a bit of a slowdown week, after cramming in so much work for about a month straight before it. However, I did technically do what I set out to--I got a major moving prop going (which turned out to be much easier than anticipated), I set up crowds of background characters with different colors (which turned out to be harder), and I got a big panning background shot set up.

Here, we see a bit of Bicoris and Empusa's relationship dynamic. Or lack of one.