Progress Report, 14/11 - 20

What's all this now?

Saturdays are for writing a late Friday report, and realizing you remember barely anything of the past week owing to stress.  

Hello everyone and welcome to a very brief progress report. My apologies for being a day late - my work shifts Wednesday through Friday turned out to be proper doozies, and I arrived home late yesterday.  

But I digress, we're here to talk about projects! The 3K/5K project only needs Moonie's VA work, which is estimated to land sometime today, in order to get its finalization to animation. While I was struggling to sort things out with that project, and others, I might have begun work on another piece that I haven't quite told anyone about yet out of fear that it might not bear fruit, but which I am comfortable enough with to, at this stage, at least sharing a teaser for, which is the header for this week's project report.  

Nothing incredibly concrete yet, as it's quite ambitious, but it's slowly looking to take shape. I will be sure to announce it properly, should it look like it's working out. In Blender, just like I did with SFM, I have to sometimes aim high, and then crash and burn, or create things that are halfway decent, in order to learn and develop. Owing to the nature and the scope of this project, particularly in the voice acting department, it's, hands down, my favorite so far, and I don't want to try making it "too early" on my Blender learning journey if that makes sense.  

Speaking of VA work - the Tifa Blender Project in the meantime might be seeing some overhaul owing to a poll I have planned for tomorrow, pertaining to the community's view on male voice acting. The initial script I had planned required rather extensive lines for Don Corneo, and while I have a few male VA's in mind that no doubt could deliver, I'm aware that there's something of a split in the community over its preferences regarding male voice overs in 3D work such as this. Thus, keep a lookout for the poll tomorrow, in order to guide my work stance on this matter. It won't be a black and white thing - I'll try to lend some nuance to it as I know it can be very circumstantial.

And speaking of polls, if my memory serves I never quite reported on the results on the last one, where MK9 Mileena seems to have secured victory with a rather comfortable lead. Though I no doubt will be using both at some point, I am glad the community in general seems to agree with my preferences on this matter! While MKX Mileena no doubt has an awesome design, her MK9 variant invites itself to the creation of smut on a whole different level. The ridiculously huge boob window, shared among so many MK9 lady designs, probably has something to do with it, let's be fair :)

I believe that's all for this week. Thus, as always, thank you so much for your continued support, and for all of your kind words! Be on the lookout for the poll tomorrow, which I'll probably be running for a week or two in order to make sure everyone get their say, with frequent reminders. I just need to wrap my mind around how to exactly design it. Finally, my scientific method courses at uni will come to good use :)

Take care of yourselves, as well as each other!
/DH