Beauty to Abomination and Back

"Beauty to Abomination and Back"
Author: Derek C. Butler
Date: 5/16/2025

Hello my wonderful chaotic gamers, My name is Derek, I am one of the developers of "Same Day Delivery". For the last few days I've been modeling the player character and the main building for the game, and in this post I plan on telling the tale of how this wonderful model started being created, the god awful amalgam that was created and the eventual start of taking control over her.

1. The character had to start somewhere and what better way to start by blocking it out. At this time I didn't really have much of a vision for the character and wanted to see what would pop into existence as I began. Also please note, this is my first time modeling ANYTHING, so if I happen to make a few rookie mistakes, there's my reason :P.

2. Adding some subdivisions to the blocked out character and moving to the form of a human manikin form, I decided on an Elf female and continued with that vision.

3. I added a rounded posterior and some meat to her chest bones.

4. Added a little bit of tone to the body.

5. I then found myself at the face and didn't realize just how hard a face was going to be, but eventually she started to come into shape.

6. Then came the abomination, I used a program called ActorCore AccuRIG to help me add a skeleton to the model for the first submission into Unreal Engine... and I just about started to cry. All the work I had done, suddenly turned into Gollum. 

7. A little more work put into the model to reduce the amount of polygons and change her from a T pose to an A pose made a WORLD of difference. She now actually looks like the model I started creating. A little rough, but that'll change once she's got some clothing (Yes she will be clothed, this isn't that kind of game).

8. And then here is the start of the main building that the player will be working out of. It still needs a little work and an interior, but I'd say it's coming along nicely. I'm hoping to have the building itself, minus the fleshed out inside, completed this weekend. Please stay tuned for the finished building post

This all being said. My team and I hope that you'll stick with us till the end of this development. Once we have the core gameplay and models fleshed out, I might be reaching out to see what you might want to see as an easter egg in the future.

Remember my friends, 

DELIVERY, NO MATTER THE COST.

Until next time, this is Derek, Signing off.