Biggest scene of prologue done-ish (Patreon)

I still need to plug it in, but the second segment of the prologue is rendered. For those keeping count, that scene has just under 380 images in it. The next scene requires me to pose the same amount of people, but it's much shorter, so after the initial posing it shouldn't be too bad (I hope).

I did, however, run into an issue I had to deal with. It's a problem that popped up in Week 8 as well, but I was hoping that indoor settings wouldn't cause as much of an issue, but that was not to be.

For those not really familiar with Koikatsu's character creation and customization, you should know that the game, for obvious reasons, heavily favors female characters over males. There just aren't as many options for men, and things like facial hair and baldness have almost no options, though a few have popped up over the last few months.

Anyway, if you've ever noticed that Gary's hair and moustache look kinda weird, it's because I had to come up with unconventional solutions to the problem. Anyway, the issue that has popped up is Gary's bald head.

You see, the hair style I used for it is the closest you can get to a bald head, but it's still considered hair. I just did the best I could to match the "hair color" to his skin tone. That's all well and good in the old, shitty lighting settings, but with the new settings, his bald spot is being lit like hair, not like skin.

Basically, it makes him look like the top of his head was put on by Dr. Frankenstein because it's a completely different color from his skin. In Week 8, I used a quick fix by having two different Gary models for different lighting positions, and covered it for the most part literally with the addition of his hat.

At first, it was looking like I could get away with doing the same thing, but unfortunately when I came to the part where Mrs. Masters is talking with him and Sister Mary, it just didn't look right. The lighting changed the color of the bald spot depending on which way I was looking at him, and I wasn't going to make 50 different shades of Gary.

So, that brought me back to the main solution I used for Week 8:

Gary's got a hat. Congratulations, Gary.

Next on my to-do list is the BBBP finale, so hopefully I'll be back in a few days with that, otherwise... uh... I won't be, I guess.

...

Yeah.