Progress Report, 06/03 - 20

Fridays are for contemplating past mistakes, then drinking enough coffee to forget about them and instead, with laser focus, stare into the future.

Having finally caught up on my other commitments after the Alexstrasza project crunch period, I am now back in the swing of things. The feedback so far has been good, particularly on twitter where I believe it's the first post ever of mine that is tethering on the brink of 500 reacts, which is just crazy. I have my regrets with the project but believe it came out as good as it possibly could considering the circumstances - I'm particularly thankful for the kind words of the community here on patreon in that regard, as they tend to dispel some of the doubt I regularly suffer regarding the quality of my work. Thank you, as always :)

Now, onto the future!

First things first, the twitter poll finished a little while back and unsurprisingly our flagship lady Liara won, and with a rather resounding margin on that. I have some ideas regarding the video project, but my most tantalizing thought about what would be the most suitable for a follower celebration is to have Liara go back to the old alley for a good old gangbang. I've poked around with a basic scenebuild that I'll be sharing in the near future which I hope will be kind on the RAM limitations of SFM, and thus will enable a rather impressive amount of onlookers and participants. I have a perfectly fine lineup of most of the major alien races of Mass Effect, and it's about time to put them to use.

Second, it's finally time to choose between the two Final Fantasy X, Lulu oriented projects we have in the pipeline. I will be setting up a poll in the very near future for the community to nail down which one of these will be the priority, along with more thorough descriptions of their themes and so forth. Since I now have entirely new penis models and the likes, I would like to fit these to the characters involved no matter which project wins, which means I'll be revamping and rewriting the scripts while I'm at it to make them more interesting. I have a few ideas that I'll be sharing alongside the poll description in that sense, so look forward to it!

Third, I have a secret, smaller video project in the works that I've occasionally teased, especially over on the discord. It's not quite ready for reveal yet as I'm not entirely certain whether it'll pan out or not (one of the characters animated in it doesn't even have an IK rig) but I believe it's interesting enough to put some thought and work into regardless, between larger project commitments.

These 2(3) projects aside I've finally managed to exhaust the long line of things that I've had in the works for a long time. I hope to find the opportunity to follow a more stringent work schedule when it comes to my SFM stuff in the near future, as I'm in the talks with my job and my close ones about leaning more heavily into this stuff, which will enable a more consistent update schedule. Monday Loops and Wednesday Wallpapers will continue as always, and soon enough we'll be looking into polls for what other projects we're going to pursue in the future.

On the subject of the WoW comic, I am yet to hear anything regarding my orc model, which is central to the whole ordeal, but I am holding on to hope that it'll be delivered to us this year at least so we can get to cooking :)

I can see a decent hole in my schedule for commission work come next week, so if you're waiting for your turn in my all too bloated list, I hope to get to you soon. There have been a small array of private commissions that I've been unable to share in that respect, but I hope that the next couple I jump on I'll be able to post here to the community.

As always, thank you so much for your continued support and for all of your kind words. The response to video projects and the buzz of the aftermath is always a bit overwhelming for someone who does not think much of his own material, but it's still good to both see and hear that I make steady improvements to my animation style and quality as time goes. This month I hope to have the opportunity to dive, just a bit, into Blender as well, as to learn the basics. All good things take time, as they say :)

Take care of yourselves, as well as each other! We've finally gotten some winter up here, very suddenly, so don't get caught out in the sudden blizzard!
/DH