It was a bunch of different issues. After we parted ways with the 3D artist behind the original CGs the first artist or two that we tried to get ended up simply not doing the artwork they agreed to do. After we ended up dropping them we did eventually get the artist who did the artwork for the Therese love quest scene as well as the two Doralice scenes with artwork, but they got a better offer from a bigger company and we simply didn't have the budge to be competitive, while we enjoyed working with them financial realities like that can often become a hindrance on a project like this. After that the artist who was doing our custom enemy graphics expressed interest in filling in that role, and is responsible for the artwork and face of the final party member Diadira, though several fans expressed their feelings that her artwork wasn't quite up to par and after some talk about it with them it was agreed to part ways. From there we have managed to retain the services of SacB0y who seems to be working out rather well so far but only time will tell.
As well, it should be kept in mind that hunting for the various artists before SacB0y was very difficult as it often took a long time to find artists who were willing and looked to be capable of handling things, we have however since gotten better connected with other people who are interested in working on similar games (which is where we met SacB0y even), so we hope that even if things don't work out with them that we won't have to spend sometimes months without an artist at all, which was another reason that the artist hunt was rather difficult for us.
by NoMoshing » Sat Aug 30, 2014 3:29 pm
