Update 09/03 - The Progressening

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Two weeks has passed!
The time has arrived for update.

So, I am going to split stuff up here, with focus on the different things we've put our focus towards.

Let's go!

World of Darkness

For WoD, we have made significant progress.
The plot-bible for our show tenatively titled Hunter: The Parenting is more or less finished for the moment being.
We have also finished a third draft for its first episode, a second draft for its second episode and are in the progress of writing the first draft of its third episode.

Just yesterday, we had the first episode reviewed by our peers and they thought it was both solid and good. Wow.

As you can see up above, there's a little bit of concept art for four of the five main characters.
We are in the hopes you find a familiar absurdity and warmth in your brain as you look upon them. 

After another draft, EP1 will be entirely finished by our account and we will move onto the stage where we start collecting voicework and start drawing art. It is deathly exciting.

For the Pentex Project we mentioned last time, we're currently putting it on hold for a little bit to instead focus on a more basic story first that'll further help introduce new people to the setting.
Our consideration for this has currently been to do what we love most; animation a story based on an actual game.

SpeakerD is currently preparing a quick Vampire - The Masquerade 5th ed game that he will be running, that I will be playing in to the best of my meager ability, that we then can then make a short series out of.

More news on that next time but, again, something I'm deathly excited for, hope I don't actually die.

Battletech

It is the saddest truth that, FOR NOW, Battletech has been shelved until we can actually get in contact with someone who can give us a confirmation regarding whether or not we can do this without any worries.

And that's pretty much it.

We have been in contact with a multitude of people who are in high standing within the Btech sphere but, sadly, we have simply not gotten any leads out of it yet. If anyone just so happens to know a way in personally, we would highly appreciate it. Believe us, we've already tried the most obvious routes, and we feel like it might only be a matter of knowing the right people at this stage, which we unfortunately don't. But we would like to!!!

Stellaris

In the aftermath of us shelving Battletech, Earndil decided to look into a Stellaris Project, and yesterday we had the privilege of seeing what he'd come up with so far.

He's looking into something unique in that he wants to tell a small, small story about a single guy traversing the vast galaxy offered up in Stellaris.

I don't want to give away a lot more than that but it's an exciting concept that touches on just how small a single person truly is in the grand strategy universe of a game like Stellaris.

More news on this next update!!!

Half-Life

After learning that Valve's IP Policy regarding fanworks truly is on par with Paradox's, I could not help myself.
One night, not able to sleep, my brain started coming up with concepts for a Half-Life project and then, to satiate myself and remove the not-sleep curse from brain, I proceeded to write another (significantly shorter) plot-bible on the subject.

You know Opposing Force?
You know how it had these weird opportunist aliens wholly unrelated to the ones from Xen just coming in out of nowhere fucking up the place and trying to summon a big worm?

My thought process went hey what if we made a show about them lol.

I want to explore the Half-Life universe from a perspective wholly neglected on purpose due to its dubious canonicity; Race X, and their place in Half-Life 2.

So, a unit called Shock Trooper in Opposing Force (the funny boys with the electricity bug guns and the big eyes) are, in my estimation, Race X's version of the Vortigaunts.
And since the Vortigaunts actually joined up with the Resistance in Half-Life 2, I figured it'd be fun to explore the idea of a stranded Shock Trooper along a small cohort of other Race X aliens joining the humans in their struggle because, really, what the fuck else are they going to do.

I don't neccesarily want the project to be particularly long and I am definitely not putting as much fire into it as Hunter: The Parenting, but it's something that has a lot of appeal to me because of its deliberate absurdity.
And I... kind of want to make a Shock Trooper version of Pi Braine??

More news on this later oh BOY.

Supreme Death Hell

No progress has been made on this shitfire yet please stand by.

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AND that's it for the projects in and of themselves!
With that, time to go over some admin.

New Hire

OKAY!!!!!!!

SO!

I have now officially hired another person full-time. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

A Lead Artist who will lead us into a more interesting and cool aesthetic in my opinion personally according to me.

He started working on the 1st of September and has already belted out some really cool concept art and I am very impressed and excited and happy. Art really brings a project to life and I can't wait to share more with you.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS FUCKING POSSIBLE.

However...
During our script-writing process, we have come to realise that we probably need another artist on to work full-time due to the amount of work that will be needed.
So, I'm currently in the process of looking for yet another artist, as, assuming this Patreon stays afloat, we can absolutely afford it.

I would hire one of our regulars but the issue is that hiring people who don't live in the same country as you is incredibly frustrating. I am going to be looking for someone within my country and, preferably, even within my hometown, so as to make the situation as easy as possible.

And I believe that will be that for this time.
I'll be excited to start showing you some more solid stuff in the near future.
I do not know where we will be in the next two weeks but it is my hope that we will have started recording and drawing for EP1.
We will see!

Until next time, have a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!