Friday Update - July 16, 2021

Writing - 95%
Rendering - 45%
Animation - 50% ? (there might be another animation, undecided at the moment)

Hello, Patrons!

My apologies for the lack of update last week. I had family here for the past month, eventually up to 5 people in my 1-bathroom house, and they left last weekend. I took a couple of days to decompress after that. I know I said I'll get some screenshots and polls out to you guys and you should be able to expect them this coming week.

And now that family is gone, things are picking up speed! Rendering is going well. I did have an animation setback where I had to redo a multi-hour render because Windows decided to reboot at the worst time, but all in all things are going well.

Things might slow down a bit this week as I have to work on building 2 sets. One of them should actually be somewhat easy but the other will be a total custom job from the ground up and will likely take a good few hours and several iterations. On top of that, I'll likely be rendering around 6 characters within that set, so those renders will take a good amount of time to pose and get right.

I did have a couple of Patreon issues I'd like to address.

First, private messaging through Patreon seems to suck. Please forgive me if I am late responding to messages, because Patreon sometimes doesn't notify me that I have a new message. Someone sent me a message on the 10th, which I received. But someone also sent me a message on the 9th which I didn't receive until days after the one I got on the 10th. It's crazy. The best way to reach me quickly is through Discord. Barring that, again, I apologize for any tardiness but I will deal with your messages as quickly as I'm able.

Second, I am considering changing Tier 1 from $1 to $2. Before you get upset, please note that this will only affect NEW Patrons! If you currently donate $1, you will be able to keep donating $1 as long as you want.

The reason I'm considering the change is that when I look at the fees and taxes taken out, $1 doesn't make much sense. Most of it disappears and goes to Patreon.

If you think this is a good or bad idea, please let me know in the comments!

Until next week, please enjoy this render of Shannon in some summer attire. Thank you all for your support!

-CarbonBlue