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Nova Sketches

The artist who worked on these didn't research Crush Crush very well, so you'll actually see a weird human in the first intro sketch for Nova.

(NSFW) Nova sketches

Lots of different scrapped ideas and redlines/critiques before landing on the final thing.

(NSFW) Nova Poses & Outfits

birthday suit & lingerie! YAY

Nova Poses & Outfits

Here's a look at the full body outfits for Nova!

NEW CATGIRLS

Here is an early look at 2 new cat girls who will be appearing together as a duo. They'll be part of an upcoming fuzzy / kemono parallel event, and we're excited to bring these two fine felines to life. We settled on cat maid cafe as their theme, so you'll notice they're wearing cute maid style dresses. We're tentatively calling them Ginger & Wasabi, as suggested by our superfans!

(NSFW) Yuki CGs

Lewdddddd :P

Yuki CGs

sketch to final with critiques/redlines included - here's Yuki! Our lovable mail carrier deer gal.

(NSFW) Nina's Phone Fling

The naughty version!

Nina's Phone Fling

Nina's phone story was really funny to work on and all the images we created turned out great!  This was also a special phone fling where we added a branching path option, which gave a different final photo depending on the path chosen.

(NSFW) Grace Outfits

Sketch to final ~ here are all of Grace's NSFW outfits!

Grace Poses & Outfits

Sketch to final ~ here are all of Grace's SFW outfits!

(NSFW) Grace CGs

Here are some of the spicier CGs for Grace ~ sketch / critiques / flats / finals

Grace CGs

Sketches, critiques, flats and finals for the lovely Grace!

Originally I wanted to call her Holly but the writer who worked on her thought Grace fit her better. Which name do you prefer?

(NSFW) Bearverly Phone Fling

These are the sketch and uncropped finals of Bearverly's honey-licious phone fling!

Bearverly's Phone Fling

This was a fun phone fling to work on! Here you can see the sketch to final versions, including the super safe for work mobile versions (adding more fur to cover up Bearverly).

2023 Recap

...and just like that, 2023 is a wrap! I like putting these end of year recaps together because it's a really cool visual for showing some of the major stuff we worked on. It doesn't include sales, backend improvements or anything outside of the games but it's still a TON of stuff. Looking forward to what we'll release in the new year!

(NSFW) Peanut's Strip Game!

Here's the final installment of Peanut's Strip Game ;)

Peanut's Strip Game

These are the hi-res images and sketches from the strip game Peanut played on Crush Crush's Twitter! Each post let people vote on which piece of clothing would be removed next. It was a fun challenge, and I got to collaborate with one of our newer artists on this one. She and I both had lots of fun trying to come up with flirty poses for this adorkable nut.

Even More Art Tests

Here's one more round of art tests with a girl I actually hired a few months ago. Her art test was: "Create a new pose of Cassie, matching the Crush Crush style" and "Design a new boy for Blush Blush". I think she did a decent job matching our style and I love how expressive and dynamic her poses are, so it all worked out. You can see our critiques in red.

Karyn the Cheerleader Sketches

This is a new character concept for an upcoming Parallel Event (a University themed one) and she's an adorable cheerleader! Yuki did the images with the 2 rows of cheerleaders and the one with the delinquents / teachers / hall monitor designs. Personally I like the hamster-themed hall monitor girl, but the team decided cheerleader was the way we wanted to go. So I took a stab at designing her, and that's how we landed on the platinum blonde with pink and blue streaks design. Do you think that was the best option? Tell us what you think!

(NSFW) New Art Tests

These are some art tests done by an artist who was interested in joining our Blush Blush art team. We don't have any open roles on that team so I challenged her with some Crush Crush art tests instead. Basically I said "design a new character, any you think would fit in". I think she did a good job, however they still felt like a different style than what we have in Crush Crush. I'm curious what you all think though?

New Art Tests

Every now and then I get in touch with artists who are looking for work, so I always start with an art test to see how well they match the Crush Crush style. These are 2 different artist's tests:
Darya - you can see my paint-over and notes on the left, and the artist's original image on the right (plus their sketch). 

Then the other image is by another artist, who drew Elle and I let them choose a new outfit concept. They also concepted a new girl (the one with the colorful outfit).

The proportions and style look much clo...

(NSFW) Nightingale's CGs

Everyone's fappy birb Nightingale, the less clothed version

Nightingale CGs

Everyone's fave flappy birb Nightingale was a ton of fun to design and work on. We had a few different artists work on her, and I (artist panda) did all the critiques/redlines and final touch ups. I think she turned out pretty great!

Fumi's Phone Fling

Here are the sketches to finals of Fumi's phone fling. I was excited to show her with her hair down and just loosening up in general. That robe looks pretty cute on her don'tcha think?

(NSFW) Fumi's Phone Fling

Here's the steamier version of Fumi's phone fling sketches to final

(NSFW) Cassia poses

Cassia was our first Spooky Event reward character and holds a special place in our hearts. Her design is inspired by Egyptian mummies, so we referenced old anime like Mummies Alive and YuGiOh and of course Ankha from Animal Crossing. We started with the SFW design first and then removed layers to land on a good NSFW version of that outfit. Do you think it was the right amount? Or should we have removed more clothing?

Cassia Poses

Cassia was our first Spooky Event reward character and holds a special place in our hearts. Her design is inspired by Egyptian mummies, so we referenced old anime like Mummies Alive and YuGiOh and of course Ankha from Animal Crossing. 

Peanut Undressing Animation

Slightly NSFW but very fun animation where you can see our rough animatic, cleanup, and final tie down animation. One day we'd like to ink and color this! What color should her bra be....?

Something familiar... something new...

After reading many player support emails and forum threads on Steam asking for this, we have decided to move forward with a new 'glow up' direction for Ayano (soon to be renamed Ayeka). Here you can see a few different color palette swaps I played around with, but ultimately I landed on the top option (red eyes, gradient auburn hair, pink bows). This relaunch of her will happen sometime in the next few weeks. For a long time we have been thinking about having our own original yandere girl in Crush Crush, so this way we had the push from our ...