Progress Report

Alright! Only two things left to report on, so I'll start with the easy one. The Mixed Media Short is done save for an editing pass. It should be out either later today or sometime tomorrow and I think it came out pretty good! I haven't quite decided yet if I'm going to title it Cara Loft: The Seal of Kukaco, or Cara Loft: Kukaco's Relic. But whatever I decide on, I think people will like it. Dunno if they'll like it enough for it to win future polls. But we'll see!

As for Left Hand Magic...less good. Not bad, just less good. I mentioned last Progress Report that I might have to settle for only 4/5 days for Talia's week 5 content this time. Unfortunately, I'm making that call official right now. Given there will still be 9 new scenes with 12 new animations, it's still a nicely sized build, so I don't feel too bad about it. It just annoys the OCD part of me that wants to finish routes in even chunks -_-. 

I ultimately made that call because I'm still working on Day 4. The last of the still renders just finished and I've got the first animation for Day 4 set up to run while I sleep. But that will still leave another animation to do tomorrow. Since I wanted to cold-stop rendering no later than the 26th to make sure I didn't screw myself out of enough time on the writing/coding front...there's just no way to get Day 5 in. Dual animation days usually take me about three days in total to work through. One day for the all the stills for the scene, and one day each for each of the animations and their stop/start stills. And that's assuming nothing goes wrong. 

Anyway, the upshot is I should actually be able to get started on the writing/coding part a day earlier than planned, and with everything else already done. So there's a pretty minimal chance of delay happening this time. Something would have to break in a serious way somewhere (always possible still) for me to need the extra time. And with Left Hand Magic being an every-month release now, it's not like you'll be waiting too long for that final day of Talia's Week 5 ;-).