#iskiupdates

Probably the last devlog style post I do here, at least for now, since I am making progress slower than I want (this is also why I didn't post last month-), even though I know why, I'm struggling to stay focused for long periods still. I'm going to instead make posts when I get a decent amount of progress done, with the next hopefully being a complete or at least more complete Ruins.

Got most of the terrain done, just need to get in the rocks/cavern itself and get textures on the buildings, plus all the other set dressing (I've still got all of the assets done for that, but going to fix them up a bit when I finish the terrain itself).

I've also been rethinking the story a bit, or at least telling it, since getting an animation done will take a while still, so I'm thinking of making a comic of Mosiacverse, which would have been the last and connecting one, and get around to the other stories as animations when I can. I need to think about this more (and plan out however I do go about this).

I still never really know how to start these, so I'm just going to continue straight to what I've been doing: Early to mid December I was still struggling to get much work done, mostly focusing on finishing school work, but I have since been getting more work done again!

This year (2026) I will hopefully have a bit more time, along with pushing myself more to stay focused and on track, although I will need another job soon so that may eat into my time a little, but we'll see when I get there.

I've mostly been working on the shader and updating the assets, getting through a few of the categories. I'm aiming to get all of the Ruin's assets done, along with trying to get the Ruins done as a whole by the end of January, which I believe I can do so long as I can stay focused-

While I've still struggled to get back on Path of Another, I have been able to get work done on the InSilence script, getting the first two chapters to a final draft, and I'm going to see how well I can work on them alongside the Ruins.

I've mostly finished sans' skeleton (just need to clean up weight painting and uvs/textures), going to make his clothes first then make Papyrus next. Enjoy this mildly cursed image of him (not full body since he has no clothes).

I've gotten most of the Ruins' environment models pass 1 done, which is focused on the designs of the models with a basic texture (colour), pretty much just need some furniture and buildings. The shader also needs more work, but for now I'm just slowly tweaking it occasionally. Once these are done, hopefully early September, I'll be laying everything out in the Ruins, and will note and make any changes needed.

Pretty much finished planning out my next story for Wattpad, and have started writing out a draft to better solidify that plan, which I'm aiming to get done by the end of the month, and maybe start posting next month (so long as I do get it done...). While working on this I also realised that I prefer this method compared to the way I was writing InSilence (which was more of a script formatting), so I'll likely try writing it up in a similar way at some point after the draft.

sans' skeleton model is coming along somewhat well, I did want to have it rigged by now but welp. Should just need one more sculpt and can be rigged then, and then I'll either make Papyrus' model or do clothes for sans (aka a bunch of AU designs).

I have started on the models for the Ruins, which I'm aiming to get decently done and lay them out to make sure they all work well. I was focusing on the sans model for the first two weeks of the month and shared that focus when the school holidays ended.

The InSilence script is still far behind where I want it to be, however I've also looked at it and have decided that since it needs to be done by the time the models are done (so I can animate it), I can take my time a bit with it and divert some focus, which comes to the next two stories, both of which are written(typed ig-). The second one will be a rewrite of the original story, keeping it somewhat with the original design, but fixing it up to be better written and more in touch with the current state of my disassociating this story(s) a bunch over the past few years... and the first one will be a new story that is set after the events of the animations. Two things I had learned from the original story (and continuing to try afterwards and failing as well-), is to: properly plan out the story, not just an idea of what happens, but actually go through it in a simplified but thorough detail/story of events, which is where I am currently at. and the second is that I won't have a weekly schedule, or likely any except my own goals, as that tends to make me rush them out, and can divert attention from other work.

Heu!,

Going pretty decently, still not up to where I wanted to be, but getting there. The greybox of the underground environment is done (as can be seen above, although that image is slightly old / a few changes), and the plan to get the story planned out in an idea board is going. I have been noting down ideas and laying out story beats for the stories, mostly Trailing, and spent most time bringing InSilence in detail into the board, which I feel is also just a better way to do it, and the others will likely be brought up to this level slowly.

Like I said, a lot more detail, which I started doing since I was struggling to make any progress when trying to summarize events for it. Also got a few more of the character sketches done, so now the list looks like this:

Still... kinda cursed but that's how it goes lol (also have a couple more cursed images from this :3), and did a bit of work on various songs, so got a couple more that I kinda like, and two that idk where they'll go but I like them-

That's been most of it for the month, goal for next month is to focus on the sans skeleton model (again, but actually get it done this time) and get the InSilence board done, maybe some more planning into the other stories, and try to get more of these character sketches done. (edit: Also going to begin focusing more on the Ruins later in the month, with going over the assets made earlier and working on more for the area.)

Still trying to work on self-discipline, which is mildly hard but getting better I think... slowly

There's quite a few creative liberties throughout here to try and get some parts to work, or were just funny and made sense.

Taking a step back from the model references to do a more basic reference of the characters, mainly to get an easier look at and notes of their designs, along with making sure they are scaled nicely with each other.

These are all still sketches, with sans still in progress and a couple others not started, and I'm going to do another run after, I am just first making sure their general proportions are good. This has led to some funny notes like Toriel's mouth looking way to big lol. After the Undertale characters are done I will begin working on AU designs, pretty much just building off of these ones again.

And finally, InSilence's script got to a pretty good stage, but a few things still feel off so I'm going to bring it a step back to be in the same state as I'm doing the rest of them now, which is first as an idea board on Obsidian, getting down all of the story ideas and building off of that a bit before getting into scripting properly, which is probably a step I should have done but I had skipped it since I already knew what I wanted to do, but didn't have it written down anywhere.

This is the board for Evershifting, too zoomed out to actually show anything (don't want many spoilers anyway), but it's a decent show of how the laying out works. some look longer, but are just more broken up, or rather have more detail in them.

And for June I should be able to get the Underground Greybox done, Undertale character references done, and begun on AU references, and hopefully most of the stories laid out in idea boards (Basically just finishing off what's been shown here I guess lol).

Time for a small section not on Chaos/Tale :3

I had an issue with one of the core concept/theme/ideas of In Shadows We Live, which I have had an idea on how to fix that which has been noted (solely realized by the current uni assessment lol), and is ready to be expanded on more at some point.

Anyways!, Finally got the InSilence script done!, and got more through the character references but still got a ton more to do.

The other thing I've done is start to block out the environments, getting the Ruins and Snowdin grey-boxed. I had previously finished the Ruins one, which did lead to me learning a bit of Blender's limits, however it had to be restarted after reworking how I'm going to make these (partly due to that experience-)

I've had to utilize some of my "creative liberties" to help make some parts of this actually work, as well as just some things I feel make sense or make it feel nicer (at least to me), such as the actual game path being dug out into the ground, letting monsters watch as any human travels to the end, along with Home actually being built around the path, rather than extending out after it, since it felt nicer with how much space there was.

I also uploaded a short animation test early March for the art style and little test of animating in Blender, though it needs work, it does work as intended which I guess is good (flows to quickly and needs better camera framing for two).

Kinda scattered this month, worked on the script and a handful of references. I have a better direction for what to work on now, and while I didn't properly set any previously, I actually have goals for next month, which if I can achieve means I'll have a little something to properly show off!