Progress Report, 27/10 - 23

Hello everyone and welcome to another in the line of progress reports! Endeavoring to keep this as brief as can be, once more.

Ivy's project has finally had all its new scenes posed properly and set up for animation. While there's some lighting tweaks and camera positioning that'll no doubt change over the course of animating it all, and no small amount of re-animating already animated sections, it's in a state where all I am missing is the female VA work to work on it in earnest. This'll coincide with the Patreon payout and subsequent tax filings, occurring automatically on the 5th every month, so I expect to have the VA material the week following the next one. After that, I'll suppliment it with male VA talent as well, and using some sound packs I've bought as well as in-game sounds to really get it all across as well as can be.

Karlach's Scenario meanwhile is being finalized over this weekend, with the release slated for Monday 30:th, quite close to Halloween proper so I'm pretty happy with the actual timing on it in that respect at least. This has been a bit of a weird month with the Mondays falling unevenly and relatives visiting in the middle of it all, but November seems to at least be properly sorted.

As for December's update schedule, I've got a tentative view on how to arrange it all, hoping to get a little bit time for family and some time off before resuming work again after new years. I've been slapped with a new years and christmas shift quite frequently over the last few years so it'd be nice to be able to celebrate it with friends and family once more. Sadly it'll mean a hiccup in the usual schedule, something I hope you can forgive me for owing to the season, but I'll be sure to announce properly how December will look once I have a more firm grasp on how to arrange it all. I'd like a Scenario-style Christmas Special to get sorted to land on the 24/25th, for instance, so I need to figure out how to ration the weekends for the work in question.

But more on that later. Thank you, as always, for your continued support and for all of your kind words. The weather remains cool and steady, with some snow having fallen on occasion already, so I have my hopes for a proper November this year, possibly. Back when I was a child, it wasn't uncommon for November to be a winter landscape already. Hope you're holding up well out there, all things considered.

Take care of yourselves, and each other!
/DH