October 2020 WIP Update

Hello once again my Patreons!

Apologies for the absence of the September WIP, I only just noticed there wasn't one! Time has become a nebulous thing of late when all days are exactly the same. But luckily it would not have been a terribly exciting report since it would have pretty much just have said "Still working on Kingdom Hearts, it'll be finished soon." I mean, that's not so different from what I'll be saying today but we're SO much closer to being done.

But first I, it's been a whole year since Something About Fruit came out & I consider that to be the official launch of Master Dan's Dojo so that makes us 1 year old. so Happy Birthday to me! I want to say thanks to everyone who has been supporting me this last year. I'm sure you all have better things you could be doing with your money right now so thank you for choosing to use it to support me & also for not dropping off during these quiet months. It's always been my intention to make more long projects that will involve these dry spells & I appreciate you all sticking by. But onto the work!

In terms of silly side project I've been playing about with the Overwatch girls some more, I wanted to see if I could get them to wear form fitting yoga pants for an idea I have for some future short content & that's worked out quite nicely. I'll probably do some pics with them in the future. Also put together a princess peach I can do some stuff with, she comes with some very nice outfits. Just want to make sure I have some options for putting together smaller things over the next few months but this is all stuff I just play around with for a few hours before I go to bed, nothing major.

Ok, the current big thing, Edge of Tomorrow. It's mostly done. All animation is completed. I'm just finishing off the sound & the render. In terms of the sound I've got all bu the last scene to do which is about 3/4 minutes although I have finished a couple of the shots already. Maybe another weeks worth of work to do there.

These last few days I have mostly been working on the score, picking the songs, editing them to fit properly & putting together the title sequence. The title sequence goes on for a minute & a half total from the MasterDan logo to the main action starting but there is a bunch of animation in there & I really wanted to let as much of the song play out as possible. I even removed the MasterDan theme tune of this one to give it an extra 20 seconds to play out.

In terms of the render I have two shots to do the first render for (at which point I will have a full version from beginning to end) & then the first half needs a re-render because I re-lit the whole thing, corrected several mistakes & needed to add a few tweaks to get the sounds synced in nicely. My new 3090 render rig isn't ready yet so I can still only render during the night while I'm asleep so maybe 2 weeks of render left.

Long story short, I really can't see how it wont be done by the end of the month so by the November report (assuming to remember to do it!) we should have this one in the can! Then we can get back to the mermaid joint that should have been finished months ago.

As always, a more detailed breakdown of each weeks activities go up on the Discord every Saturday (apart from this week because I didn't realize it was Saturday yesterday so it'll go up in an hour or so).

Now I know what you are all saying. "Dan!" you cry. "It's been nearly 2 months since there was an Eldar Narn release! Eldar Narn is the only reason I support your Patreon & I want to know where it is!" I understand where you're coming from, it's my favourite thing too. So worry not. Like everything else the KH project has eaten into Eldar Narn's production time a bit & the fact that the current Chapter has lots of people in it & a really complicated environment it takes some time. I have been plugging away though & there are currently 11 pages ready & the release will come with page 13 I think. That'll be a nice beat to end on.

It's another Chapter with Meredhel & the gang although this one will focus in more on Meredhel specifically & we flesh Myrill out a little bit as well. We're meeting two new characters who get there names on the page so you know they are important. One isn't really that important though & the other one is. Only one will be officially introduced during these pages though. As always it's filled with subtle foreshadows for things that wont happen until whole books later in some cases.

And that's about it. No Halloween content I'm afraid. I made a half hearted effort to dress Namine & Kairi up as witches but I have too much animation work to do for trite project like that at the moment. I didn't like having to divert the time to make the '1 Year Anniversary' poster as it was anyway without more pauses this close to it being done.

Hopefully this time next month we'll be reminiscing about how successful the release of EoT was!

Until then, thank you for your time,