Progress Report

Sorry for being silent so long, folks! As you likely expected (or honestly should have, at least), I left for my short vacation the morning after I posted the poll results. I only got back late on the 15th, and I wanted a couple of days back with my nose to the grindstone before I said anything, so that I'd have a better idea what to say. Thankfully, mostly things are going decently.

Left Hand Magic

This is actually in the best shape, overall, with how much focus I put on it before leaving. I currently have all three of Trix's remaining Week 6 weekdays completely rendered, and I'm almost done with the stills for Revina's Day 1. I should be able to finish Revina's Day 1 today, after which I'll need roughly 3-4 days for her Day 2. That will actually, unless something goes wrong, have me finished rendering before I normally stop for the month. But I'm going to stop there anyway (save perhaps redoing an old animation that needs fixing, if I think I can get away with it) since I'm going to need the time to focus on the Mixed Media Short, which is the farthest behind at the moment.

Mixed Media Short

Having said that, if you check out the final two renders in the images, you'll see that I have started on the MMS renders and included those two as teasers of a sort. The issue is that normally I'd almost be done with them. I typically aim to be finished with them around the 20th. Right now, I only have 7 of 20(ish) done. All of those having been done in the last 2.5 days. Which is honestly an extremely high pace, which is good...but I won't be able to sustain it as I basically pull a couple of 12+ hour work days right after I got back to get so many so quickly.

This is why I'm not going to press for too much extra on Left Hand Magic, as I'll likely flip over to using the main rendering rig as a way to speed up renders for the Halloween Special MMS. A couple of days using the main rig for rendering should let me get it all done in time for a release of the MMS roughly when I normally release it. After which I'll switch back to working on Left Hand Magic. Currently, I'm on schedule to get everything done on time, but there isn't much wiggle room, so we'll see how it goes. Thankfully, there is some wiggle room, since this is a 31 day month.

Short Story

Good, neutral, and bad news all three here. Good news? I actually did get just shy of 2,000 words done on this while in hotel rooms and such. Neutral news? I realized quickly that I'd gotten a little ambitious with the description. I altered the story moderately from the overly ambitious description I originally gave, but it's still very on theme for Halloween and includes many of the same elements. I think it's coming along well, honestly. Bad news, which isn't too bad? I only really have today to work on it before I need to switch to a different writing project. I doubt I'll completely finish it, and likely won't be able to touch it again until until at least the 23rd. I'm fairly hopeful it will be released before Halloween, but it will likely be a later-month delivery. Which, well, isn't truly bad, like I said...

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That's it for now, folks! I should be back to a regular progress report schedule now, as well! Again, sorry for the longer gap!