Hello, everyone! Pretend this post was made on Monday, November 14.
As per last week's Progress Report, I am taking a short break from my films pipeline to shore up other ideas that have fallen to the wayside over the past few months.
There's three main projects I am focusing my attention on: Batcat, DOAFACU, and the hitherto-unspoken project that I've only teased once so far.
Batcat took up the vast majority of last week. What started out as a 15-minute job to upgrade Selin...
2022-11-16 11:33:58 +0000 UTC
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Howdy hello, everyone!
I'm making this Progress Report open to all Patrons (would make it Public but, as I've said before, Patreon gets hissy about NSFW artists making public posts - it makes their business partners nervous).
With the early-access release of the Gaige video last week, I've been taking the past week off. I intended to spend it working on things, but it just so happened that a friend of mine quit his job as a deckhand that very week, and so after weeks of p...
2022-11-09 08:53:32 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
So, fun story. Not 20 minutes after I made yesterday's progress report lamenting how the sound design for Gaige still wasn't finished, Tonedeaf Lewdness sent in a new build of the sound design that we ended up greenlighting to be final.
I intended to release this video properly earlier, but technical problems and schedule conflicts resulted in the release being delayed till now.
I hope you all enjoy!
Runtime: 08:39
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2022-11-03 05:06:21 +0000 UTC
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Well, I was hoping I wouldn't have to make this post, but here we are.
Still waiting on getting the sound design finalized for the Gaige video. The first draft has been done, but my sound designer is working on the feedback I gave him and we're waiting to do another round of feedback on it.
He was hoping to have it done Tuesday evening, but that didn't happen. I don't know how long this will end up taking. I apologize.
To make up for it, I'm giving you guys an early cut of t...
2022-11-02 07:41:43 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
The Gaige one-off is finally rendering out in 2160p! I just pressed the big red button on the pre-sex and sex sequences. The post-sex sequence finished rendering this morning.
Let's do some napkin math. The post-sex sequence was 140 seconds, rendered on my secondary machine, which renders at about 65% the speed of my main machine. It took about 16 hours to render 140 seconds, meaning that it'd take about 10.5 hours for my main machine to render th...
2022-10-25 09:03:40 +0000 UTC
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Oops. Forgot to make this week's progress report yesterday.
Not much to report. Schedule's slid back a bit, as things came up that took up half my work week. Nothing to worry about, just things that needed doing.
All of the audio has since been installed, and all of the non-vocalization lip-sync has been done. Vocalization lip-sync is what I am working on now, and then once that is done, animation polish is all that's left.
All goes well, rendering should be started by next ...
2022-10-18 20:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
The Gaige video is coming along swimmingly! All of Milly Stern's audio has been delivered, processed, and installed. Indeed, the video as a whole has been rough-exported and cut together into the final video mix, and clocks in at 8.5 minutes before credits. My plans to make a short, quick video kinda... fell short. Again.
But I don't think anyone will complain about it!
I've sent the video off to my sound designer to do his ...
2022-10-11 10:00:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I, uhh, think I forgot to make a Progress Report last week. Oops.
Not too much to report on that front, anyways, though. Milly Stern, my voice for Gaige, ended up being out sick with her family for most of last week, only now recovering to the point where she's comfortable recording. Hopefully this week will see the Gaige audio done and sent in my way.
I was hoping to have the Gaige video done and ready for posting by the end of this week, b...
2022-10-04 10:33:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
As per my plans described in last week's Progress Report, I spent this past week focusing on building as many Gaige animations as I could. In total, I ended up with 15 unique positions for Gaige to get her guts rearranged in. The fact that Deathtrap doesn't have legs and instead just floats through some undiscernible mechanism really opened up the possibilities.
Yes, that is indeed a light fixture that they're fucking on.
In addition to these 15 animations, ...
2022-09-20 06:54:29 +0000 UTC
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OVERBREED: EPISODE 0 is finally released! You can watch it RIGHT NOW by clicking right here!
Runtime is 07:46.
@SternMilly - Mercy
@DeafSfx - Sound design
@Ordagon - Genebomb + other models
@WancesWitDolves - Subtitles, additiona...
2022-09-14 06:26:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
As you can tell by this week's post image, the Gaige mini-vid is coming along well. I have nine loops built so far. Honestly not sure how many there will end up being. My plan is to spend this whole week just animating loops. I'll call it good when one of two things happens: Friday passes into Saturday, or I run out of positions to put Gaige and Deathtrap into.
The construction of this minivid is an inversion of previous minivids: where they were all a single anim...
2022-09-13 08:08:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone.
So, it's been a week since the last post, and still no Overbreed Episode 0 release.
It turns out, while my sound design was bedridden with Covid, he became restless and overly ambitious. Once he was well enough to work again, he promptly picked up his music theory books and finally set out on something he's wanted to do for our videos for years now:
Compose an original soundtrack.
He is a musician by education, and a composer by hobby. The sound design...
2022-09-06 08:07:23 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone.
You may have noticed that Overbreed Episode 0 hasn't been released yet.
The long and short of it is that my sound designer got covid. He was expecting to be done and send in the audio by the 25th (Thursday). He got sick around the 22nd (Monday), and wasn't even able to get himself out to bed until the 28th (Sunday). So he effectively lost an entire week to illness.
He's doing better now, and is actually able to get up and do things (or, as he put it, "stay a...
2022-08-30 19:49:35 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everybody!
OVERBREED EPISODE 0 IS DONE! On my end, anyways.
I am currently waiting on my sound designer to finish up his side of things. It's taking him a bit longer than most videos, because of just how heavily reliant on sound design this project is. It's probably the most ambitious ask of him I've done to date.
Then throw into the mix that he started up a new semester of university less than a week before I approached him with the draft cu...
2022-08-23 18:27:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Not much to report, unfortunately. Hasn't been a terribly productive week, as I was out of town this weekend. Two of my work days (Friday and Sunday) were burned on that weekend, and then today (another work week) was mostly burned dealing with some technical issues involving my rendering machine.
I've finally gotten the render machine up and running again, but it pretty much took all day to get to this point. This week's image is actually fresh off the rendering ...
2022-08-16 06:36:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Not much to report on this week. Just chewing away at finishing off these scenes and getting them rendered out.
Post image is the very last frame of the televised segment.
Hopefully next week I'll have everything rendered out.
Speaking of renders, I've been investigating the Frozen project and its rendering issues. Long story short, it's not feasible to render in its current state. Early experiments and calculations have suggested, at the standard 4k h...
2022-08-09 21:12:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
A massive milestone was reached yesterday: as I was hoping, the Overbreed Episode 0 video was sent off for sound design!
Tonedeaf has his work cut out for him. This video, just by its nature, is heavily dependent on sound design. He's expecting it to take him 2 or 3 weeks to get done.
So, we're not getting a quick turnaround and start-of-month posting. I was hopeful, but not optimistic. I think as long as we get the video out before August e...
2022-08-02 17:57:41 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Once again, let's all pretend it's actually Monday July 25 and I am posting this on time.
This time around, I actually have a semi-reasonable excuse for the delay, though: I went to a friend's birthday party that ended up effectively killing 3 days. I left Friday afternoon, spent all of Saturday with them, and then got back home Sunday evening.
For those who aren't aware, I effectively only get 3 days a week to work on offline projects: Frid...
2022-07-27 05:22:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Let's all pretend that it is actually the 18th, and I am posting this Progress Report on time.
With that being said, it's been a productive week for Overbreed Episode 0! Two major milestones were made: firstly, I've gotten the model for the Serum Injector built! I am extremely pleased with the results, especially since it's an entirely bespoke design that I came up with more or less by the seat of my pants. I knew I wanted a cartridge-esque system...
2022-07-20 03:27:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
This past week's progress went a touch slower than I would have liked, though for good reason - I managed to cast voices for the 22-minute Claire/Jill video that we've been putting together on stream, and have been in the process of transposing what we ad-hoc'd in realtime down into a proper screenplay, for the voice tale...
2022-07-12 08:23:04 +0000 UTC
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Previously, on LordAardvark's Patreon...
That's all for now. Next progress report, I should be neck-deep in model-work. So many outfits to build... So many outfits...
And now, the conclusion.
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Hello, everyone!
This past week has actually been pretty uneventful, which in my line of work, is actually a good thing. If you've been around my Patreon any extended period of time, t...
2022-07-05 08:32:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
Last week's progress report noted that I had a few stills left to complete, and that - if all went well - I would be knee-deep in building the animated sequences by the time this Progress Report rolled around.
Well, I'm not sure if you're able to deduce it from this post's main image, but I am indeed knee-deep in building the animated sequences.
In fact, I'd argue I'm closer to neck-deep. I have gotten 8 of the 10 animations built, with 3 of them being compl...
2022-06-28 08:12:22 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I hope you've all had a chance to watch the Leliana minivid released earlier this week. Subtitles were added earlier today.
With that minivid out of the way, I've been working away at the grindstone for Overbreed Episode 0. The second image in this week's post is my checklist of scenes to make. I exhausted all of the scenes I can make wit...
2022-06-21 07:01:52 +0000 UTC
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Runtime: 2:33
Credits:
- Milly Stern - Leliana
- TonedeafSfx - Sound design
- DancesWithWolves - Subtitles
- LordAardvark - Everything else
Click here to watch
Public release date: June 23, 2022
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Something a bit different. Leliana alrea...
2022-06-18 08:13:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
June Minivid
So I was all geared up and ready to kick this post off by saying that the June minivid's final render is done, and is getting final touches in post-production. And that would have been true, the render was done...
Except I accidentally fucked up and dumped the entire render into the aether. 🤦♂️
My main PC has SFM installed onto its E drive, which is where it renders to. My rend...
2022-06-14 07:32:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I am back at my apartment, and back in full swing for production. Got back Thursday, with Friday being my first real day back.
In the days between then and now, I've been getting the gears turning once again. Leliana is quickly approaching completion. With any luck, I'll have the final render spinning up before next Monday's progress report.
And then beyond that, I've been putting together high-levels for various on-stream projects. You can see their pitch p...
2022-06-08 05:41:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I probably should have made this post yesterday, but it totally slipped my mind. I am making this post public, since there is nothing lascivious in it - not even a saucy picture. So it should be perfectly safe to share.
I am officially back in Washington state, and have access to my PC once more. We're not quite back to full functionality, though - I'm spending another week or two with my folks, before returning to my apartment.
During the week I was out, a ...
2022-05-30 07:29:25 +0000 UTC
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Howdy everyone.
As promised, a progress report before I head out of state for a week.
Unfortunately, not too much progress to report. I said that I was theoretically able to work in a reduced capacity during this past week. Turns out, that capacity was even more reduced than I anticipated.
All I've really been able to get done this past week is some writing and directing. I've gotten the gears in motion for audio on various projects: the Leliana project is currently in the c...
2022-05-20 07:41:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
So, uhh, apparently I missed last week's Progress Report. Oops.
Anyways, work on Overbreed Ep0 has started. Here is the screenplay for it, and here is the condensed monologue form. The screenplay is in a different format than ...
2022-05-10 07:39:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
I promised a proper Progress Report this week, and you're damn well getting a proper Progress Report. I apologize for completely slipping the past few weeks. What more, I decided to make this progress report available to all patrons, regardless of their Pledge. I'd make it public for all to read, but Patreon has made it very clear to me in the past they don't like it when NSFW artists like myself do that. So, "any pledge" is the best I can do.
If you 2022-04-26 08:07:14 +0000 UTC
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