A few more updates

Many thanks on the overwhelming feedback of the last playblast! I was actually a bit shy to post it, since I think there's still a lot of things that need improvement, but I'm glad it already excited you despite the rough spots!

Despite the current lockdown in most European countries I'll be able to continue work as usual. If anything then it might make my progress on this animation a little faster, since I won't be distracted by travels. I recently got back from a short business-related trip to London, and luckily everything went smoothly since airports were still functional a week ago. Looks like for now I'll be locked in and have all the time to focus on animating, so here's hoping I can further ramp up the progress within the next weeks and grind through the rest of this new animation! 

Something that has me a little concerned though, is the entire economic freeze that is currently happening. NVidia was supposed to announce new cards in a few days, but called the entire announcement off yesterday, means I'll likely have to render this on current day hardware. I'll have to see if I can rent a Titan RTX once I'm close to rendering, as it's currently the only thing with enough video memory to render this animation in a timely manner at 60FPS and all. Should this not be the case then I'll have to look for alternatives. Having spent this much time animating, I want to ensure this animation is rendered in the most visually appealling way, so I'm a bit reluctant to compromise any of the visual quality. But we'll see how things are looking in a couple of weeks.

Zoe Voice Actress

I've been in touch with a potential new voice actress for Zoe after roaming through the infinite depths of Furaffinity. After hearing someone who goes by the name Gen Corgi voice another character, I immediately tossed her a note and found out she'd certainly be up for voicing Zoe in this new animation. The timbre of her voice is quite close to what I always imagined Zoe to sound like, on top of that she has a professional setup, so the quality of the samples should be quite pristine. 

You can listen to her here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31553770/ 

Note that I'm still planning to have Hestia record samples as an alternative, But I'll have to see how burned out I'll be by the end of this. There's also a voice actor who will provide the voice of the 1st person character, but that's something I'll get into when I'm done animating!

Many thanks for the overwhelming ongoing support! I'm planning to have another playblast posted by the end of the month, so stay tuned! (: