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Progress Report - September 17, 2024

Hello, everyone!

We're still a bit behind schedule, but things are cooking along pretty well. The delays mostly come from two sources, one of my own doing and the other more circumstantial.

The circumstantial delay is personal, and all I'll say on it is that having friend groups consisting of married couples is great until those couples have messy divorces and both parties are in emotional turmoil and lean on you for support. Yeah. It's been a... months. This has been ongoing for ...

Progress Report - September 9, 2024

Hello, everyone!

So upfront, let me start the post by saying that the schedule slipped. The target September 13 release is a no-go. I'm now eyeballing September 20.

Last week, I stated that my goal for this week was to get all of the detail animation done this week. That didn't happen. Let me explain (not excuse) why.

Those of who that have been around for a while know that I sometimes have periods where I fall into a depressive slump and have a hard time finding the energy ...

Progress Report - September 2, 2024

Hello, everyone!

So far, so good. We're still on schedule. I've gotten all of the dialogue lip-sync done, which leaves detail animation and non-dialogue lip-sync to be done.

I also put together a potential trailer cut for when the project goes live. You can click here to view that. The trailer cut is made with the old renders, so no lip-sync to show off there. I did show off ...

Progress Report - August 26, 2024

Hello, everyone!

I am pleased to report that everything is moving precisely on schedule. Like, alarmingly precisely. Before writing this post, I jumped back to last week's post and reviewed the schedule I had laid out, and what all I said I hoped to have done by today. And I had managed to nail it square.

As part of that, I have a preview to share with you all! I always have a hard time deciding just how much to show off in a preview, but with the full video clocking in at 14:13 b...

Progress Report - August 19, 2024

Hello, everyone!

Let's just start things off hot and heavy:

Click here to watch a 36-second WIP preview with sound!

Yep, as you all probably figured from that, I've gotten most all of the audio in! All of the audio sans Pharah's and Ana's has been submitted, processed, and installed. The last audio was slated to come in today, but Bordeaux...

Progress Report & Apple's iOS Fee Raise

Hello, everyone!

This post is made available to all paid subscribers, because it is important that as many people as possible see the back half of it.

For the front half, I apologize for completely spacing last week's Progress Report. The truth is, there isn't much to report, though.

All of the material was sent out to voice talent for recording last week, and I'm now just sitting on my hands waiting for audio to come back to me. And I won't lie, it's driving me fucking insa...

Progress Report - July 30, 2024

Hello, everyone!

The Pharmmetra video is currently out for dubbing. It's a big project, clocking in around 15 minutes total, with 6 characters to be voiced. It's a logistical nightmare, and I am expecting it to take a few weeks for all of the pieces to come into play.

While I wait, I am working on putting together all of the remaining details that don't strictly depend on the audio being in place. I recently finished up the base lighting for the sequence, where I 2024-07-30 21:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Report - July 23, 2024

Hello, everyone!

I apologize for being so late with this week's Progress Report. If you follow my Twitter, then you know that on Monday I finished all of the narrative blocking for the Pharmmetra video, which has currently clocked in at 14:57.

I wanted to get all of the material sent out for dubbing before making this post, but things just keep getting more complicated. So I finally decided to just make the post as-is.

For the opening sequence, I rendered out special version...

Progress Report - July 15, 2024

Hello, everyone!

Progress on the Pharmmetra video is coming along well. As you can tell from this week's preview image, an unplanned animation loop made its way into the project. I wasn't really sure what all to have DVa doing during this sequence - in the storyboard, Pharah's just holding onto her as she and Symmetra talk; but I wanted to have DVa a bit more dynamic and actually doing something.

I decided that I wanted to visually communicate that she's eager to keep going, and s...

Progress Report - July 8, 2024

Hello, everyone!

For the first time in a long time, I actually post a Progress Report that isn't written in the middle of the early hours of the morning! You must know it's a been a good week!

And indeed, if the giant wall of fucking that is the image for this post hasn't suggested it, it has been a very good week indeed!

Last week's Progress Report had me roughly sketch out the plan for production. It involved 2.5 weeks building the core animations, plus ha...

Progress Report - July 2, 2024

Hello, everyone!

It's been a painfully long and arduous journey, but I have finally gotten the Pharmmetra storyboard in a place where not only am I happy with it, but I think it's a right fucking banger. Honestly, I think this'll end up being one of my best videos to date.

Hard to believe that just last week I was on the knife's edge of cutting the damn thing, because I just couldn't get the fucker to work worth a damn, huh?

Just goes to sho...

Progress Report - June 24, 2024 [Question At Bottom Of Post]

Hello, everyone.

I hope you all have had a better week than I. Cuz mine's been rough.

As you probably already deduced, this week's poster isn't of Pharmmetra. And that's because the project is in a bad state.

Last week, I noted how I had 6.5 minutes of storyboard done, with 7 ideas I wanted to implement, and 3.5 minutes to implement them in. I noted how it'd be a challenge to include them all, and I'd probably only be able to go with 4 or 5 of those ideas.

In the days ...

Progress Report - June 17, 2024 - PHARMMETRA LOCKED IN AS JUNE/JULY VIDEO

Hello, everyone!

I'm making this post available to all paying Patrons*, just to keep you all abreast of how things are going.

New Video Poll Review

On Friday, I officially concluded the polls and made a Tweet thread about them. The summary of that thread is as such:

• Pharmmetra & Marie were extremely close in the polls. Pharmmetra...

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JUNE 2024 VIDEO POLL is LIVE! Vote NOW on which videos you'd like to see get made!

Hello all!

I've spent the past 2 weeks desperately churning through these ideas. What started as 15 unique ideas was trimmed down to these final 5.

Now it's up to the public - and to my Patrons - to have their voices heard. Which of these ideas should I make?

You can click here to read all five storyboards, and then you can vote on that page and also <...

Progress Report - June 4, 2024

Hello, everyone!

Gonna keep this one fairly short and just get to the meat and potatoes of things:

The Final Five, And What's Next

The past week was spent mostly whittling down the candidate list for the next short video. My goal is to have a final personal decision made by Friday, at which point I will pitch the final candidates to you all here on Patreon, my Discord server, and the general Twitter public. I will then collect opinions over the next few da...

Progress Report - Storyboards Progress

Hey all.

Nothing particularly extraordinary to report. Just been busy chipping away at various storyboards, testing out the various ideas, seeing how they actually play out once they're unraveled from my head.

In fact, it's because the writing has been going so smoothly that this post got delayed. I stayed up way too late Monday evening writing, because I was in such a flow state. Almost did it again tonight, forced myself to put the metaphorical pen down and make this post.

PROGRESS REPORT - May 20, 2024 - Figuring Out The June Short Begins!

Hello, everyone!

Last week's Progress Report was dedicated to sharing the full 24-minute WIP of Overbreed Ep1 that I had available at the time, and I had noted then that the new Progress would be reported on this week.

I didn't get as much feedback as I had hoped I would get from that sharing, with only a single comment on it (and very much appreciated), so I am going to run with the old adage of "no news is good news."

Overbreed Progress

So then, le...

Progress Report - May 13, 2024 - FULL OVERBREED EPISODE 1 WIP PREVIEW

Hello everyone.

Last week, I made a note of how I wanted to get some feedback on the current state of the Overbreed Episode 1 running WIP. And that is exactly what today's post is for.

Click here to watch the full 24:27 WIP for Overbreed Episode 1.

I am specifically looking for feedback on one thing: pacing.

I want to hear any and all thoughts people...

Progress Report - May 6, 2024

Hello, everyone!

I think I forgot to make a Progress Report last week. Oops.

I also think I forgot to mention I had an impromptu schedule conflict come up, and I ended up having to spend another week with my folks, and as such, unable to get much work done. Also oops.

BUT!

I'm back at my apartment now, and we're officially back in business.

More Overbreed

You all voted, quite unanimously, for me to spend 2 more weeks on Overbreed when I g...

Progress Report - April 22, 2024

Hey all.

Making this open to all Patrons, because it's not really a formal Progress Report. I am still back with my family, as part of my spending two weeks with them in the wake of my uncle's death and celebration-of-life service. I will be returning the afternoon of Saturday 27th, meaning I won't be able to get actual work done until Sunday 28th. So don't expect much of a Progress Report on Monday 29th either.

As I anticipated, I haven't had much time to get any work done. I've ...

April 8, 2024 - Progress Report, Family Emergency, Schedule Opinions Requested

Hello, everyone.

As the title of this week's post suggests, there's a bit more to discuss this week than a traditional Progress Report. As such, I am opening this post up to all my Patrons (can't make it public because of the lewd). I'm also going to start out the gate with the non-Progress Report stuff. Just get that out of the way now.

Family Emergency

I mentioned this the other day on ...

Progress Report - April 2, 2024

Hello, everyone.

Sorry for the delay on the report. I wanted to post this week's Progress Report with the above picture, but with the normals fixed. There's a story there, but the end result is I failed. That's a running theme for this post.

Before we get into that though, here's this week's Squirrel Report.

Let's talk about Monday's note.

As it says, I built an animation and...

Progress Report - March 25, 2024

Hello, everyone!

The scary intimidating spreadsheet so far has been very successful. It managed to keep me on-task all week, sans for today where the ADHD squirrels simply refused to focus on anything. And I mean anything. Could barely even manage to play games, I was so distracted today.

As the notes suggest, I managed to get about 1.5 minutes of new animation laid down for Overbreed...

Progress Report - March 19, 2024

NOTE: This post was originally written on March 19, but due to a 5-hour render to prove a point (see end of post), it was delayed to March 20. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Hello, everyone!

So in last week's Progress Report, I alluded that the week was going to be a bit of a dud productivity-wise. All things considered, it actually turned out better than I had expected.

As I said last week, the Progress Report was pushed off till late Wednesda...

Progress Report - March 13, 2024

Hey all.

Late Progress Report. Wanted to at least have SOMETHING  to show. This week's poster is what you get.

I'll be honest, I don't know where all the time went. I got basically nothing done since last Progress Report, nearly 10 days ago.

I managed to get about a minute of new footage on Overbreed done the day after that Progress Report, and then just... nothing. I genuinely don't know where at least half of that time went.

The only days I can really account fo...

Progress Report - March 4, 2024

Hello, everyone!

As is tradition for me, I took the past week off, in the wake of the release of the Corsair video. Work resumed today, and as you may be able to guess given this post's image, today begins the 30-day cycle of working on Overbreed Episode 1.

Just for posterity, let me quickly go over what my plan for 2024's schedule is. As you all know, I'm constantly tinkering with my plans, trying to figure out what works best both for you all and for me. Long-time followers are ...

CORSAIR: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER JOB

Hello, everyone!

The CORSAIR video is finally done!

If you're reading this between February 27 and March 3, 2024, then the 1080p early access is available to you RIGHT NOW over on my website!

Click here to watch it! 

If you're reading on or past March 3, 2024, then the 2024-02-28 09:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Report / Delay Update - February 26, 2024

Hey all.

So just another delay update. Decided to just update this post, rather than make a new one.

I've just gotten the latest draft of the audioscape from my sound designer, and it is much closer to a final release now.

Unfortunately, I failed to properly communicate to him how I internally separate the video. Specifically, how I separate the main sex sequence from the montage sex sequence. So when I brought up my intention of having a backing music track...

Progress Report - February 13, 2024

Hello, everyone!

Wonderful news to report this week! All of the voice audio has been submitted, processed, and installed!

The timing was provident, as I woke up on Sunday with the plan of detailing the very last of the existing sequences, and then send Milly an email informing her that the project has officially stalled as I wait for her audio.

And then, as I was finishing up that last detailing, my phone vibrated with a notification: Milly had emailed me wi...

Progress Report - February 5, 2024

Hello, everyone!

Don't have too much in specific to report. Last week I laid out some napkin math as to how long things will probably take me, and this week has pretty much followed it square.

I've gotten all of the lip-sync done for the audio I have, both dub and non-dub. The gesticulation and expresses passes are similarly complete. All that's left at this point, really, is detail animation, as well as building the handful of screen assets I men...