Progress Report: 20/06 - 25

Hello everyone and welcome to a brief progress report.

Ivy project has seen more headway, where Scene 5 has gotten its scene outline fixed up, voice lines sorted and with lip sync fully underway. It's a larger one than 3 and 4, so it's going to take a little longer to get it done, but I like how it's coming together already.

EDI comic sadly saw no progress this week. Tuesday was spent sorting out the Aftermath wallpaper and then, finally, doing a clean re-installation of my GPU drivers. I got a lot of issues and CUDA related errors when trying to render the Aftermath which required multiple restarts to resolve, and simply decided that it was time. So I sat around for a while just sweating as I went into Windows Safe Mode and utilized DDU for the first time in my life, then made sure to install both drivers and the newest version of Afterburner. So far, it's been smooth sailing, and the Nvidia 576.80 drivers actually seem stable, especially compared to the travesty that have been the previous 3 or so driver updates. I'm just glad I didn't cook my GPU back when my Afterburner stopped working, and that things seem to be working much better now.

Suffice to say, I'll be staying on these damn drivers for quite some time.

I've had a lot of requests to get a proper EVE (Stellar Blade) model, something I hope to jump on once Mustard has his full version of her out, with her being in alpha stages at the moment. I imagine she's going to be real popular for a little while going forward, so it's understandable that folks want her in the gallery. Know that the situation is being monitored, at least, and I'll get to it as soon as I can.

Emma Frost in the meanwhile came out on top in the Scenario vote of the month, getting the win by just 1 vote. From all that I can tell the whole voting process was legitimate with no sudden surge of late-comers. The Patreon interface however was a little bugged and showed some wrong numbers in the end, so I have supplied both the Patreon and Subscribestar statistics documents (voter identification removed to keep things anonymous) in the attachments of this post for transparency's sake. Posing for the Scenario will begin Saturday.

And that's it for this week folks - thank you, as always, for your support and kind words. The weather here has turned incredibly humid, with alternating rains and sunshine, so I thank the gods that I bought a proper fan last year to have in the living room where I work. While it mostly makes the humidity kinda just whirl around, it does simulate a lesser breeze, and I'll take what I can get in this accursed heat.

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