WIP: Things are going well

 HELLO!!! Hope you all had a nice week.

Progress in the next video is going well~

There's only 2 shots left to animate! One is the longest one, but the challenging part about it is probably going to figure out how to add a specific effect I want...and the other has Thancred in it, which means I have to rig another character and I'm procrastinating. And because Dawntrail changed Thancred's face to...not Thancred, I might consider using the old one this time, unless it looks too out of place.

 There's a few effects from the game I'm trying to recreate in premiere for this video, and there's some others yet to add here. This timeline is going to get messier. Video total is settled to 28 seconds though!

I'd say it might take me 1 more week to finish it? Maybe a little less, maybe a little more.

Also I'm just enjoying the new facial controls a lot!! Eyebrow movements look much more refined now, and "sculpting" a prettier mouth shape is getting easier. I don't even know if this video is the best one to show everything they can do, but I'm trying to have fun with the minor movements when I can. I hope you're able to notice it!! It was already good to figure out the best way to do certain faces and which controls to prioritize.

Another thing I'm really happy with, is that I should have updated to the newest version of Blender a long time ago!! The lightning and render settings (in Eevee, at least) are actually easier to get better results than what I had! I'm also easily getting the results I wanted with motion blur in Blender, which I used to add in post. Now it looks more realistic, and it's actually very easy to control. :)

There's probably even more I can do directly with Blender, but other than those differences, most of the process is still the same. Screenshot backgrounds, effects mostly as overlays in premiere, the usual. But I want to test having the game environments in Blender again for a future video. I assume some things must have changed to get them because of the graphical update...

...also kinda unrelated but, hey guys, BeneG released another G'raha video and it traumatized me again :P. Sadly this time I won't be able to make a reaction video like I did last time or it would completely mess up my schedule with work and my own video. I kinda feel like I'm disappointing a few people that were hoping I'd react to it :') please understand. But oh, he's also using the new updated rigs! And you can tell by uh...the way his mouth...stretches. Yep. It's cool to notice the new "features" anyway.

(and by the way, that was the one DT scene I disliked the most, even the original. I actually think I like BeneG's version better)

And that's it for the updates. I'm very excited to finish the video, hopefully it won't take that long to figure things out!

Thank you for your support!!!