Fredrik Knudsen

Progress Update: 9/17/23

Added 2023-09-18 03:37:40 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone! You get Fredrik this week for the progress update. Poor Arcaxon caught cold this week, but he was able to make significant progress. He's currently finishing up the most complicated map covering the most recent war, describing PAPI moving in on the Imperium's territory. We'll be meeting this week to discuss the remaining animations for accuracy.

I also wanted to take a moment to acknowledge some of the things that elongated the production process to such an extreme degree; two years, even for such a large project, is unacceptable to me when all of you are supporting at regular intervals. I want to maintain confidence that videos are still coming and that progress is being made.

To that end, the whole team will be meeting upon this video's completion and we're going to discuss what caused this from each of our perspectives and what can be done to prevent it in the future. Many of the problems that we faced were relatively small and unobtrusive during smaller videos, but they became much larger problems as the length became larger, and even though we're going back to smaller projects after this, we'd like to make sure that nothing like this happens again.

The problem that we're facing now is bottlenecking. All of the assets are completed except for the animations, which were waiting on me until recently, which was another bottleneck. This isn't the first time; multiple times during production of this video, I have been the bottleneck that was holding up production, and we're going to examine this and attempt to create a new pipeline that will, hopefully, make video creation a much more streamlined process. I refuse to let this happen again.

I'll see you all again soon.

-Fredrik