Progress Update: 9/11/23

Hey everyone, progress on the FINAL section is going well with 21% of it completed already on a somewhat turbulent week. if I keep the pace I do believe the video might be finished BEFORE September ends! 🎉

Today is my Birthday (September 10th), and I'm still disappointed I couldn't finish the video before my birthday, I really do owe all of you an apology for the botched time estimate I gave for the production of these animations & the slowness of my work. 

There were several factors that really impacted all of this, a lot out of my control but still a lot in control.

When the original estimate was given publicly in March/May of this year only very few of the animations were done as I required final narration before I could work on animating anything. I was overconfident that I could finish all the work at the time but in hindsight the amount of work that was left was actually the majority of the work on the video. I thought that having the map and most of the assets for the animations meant I could probably breeze thru the video production as I had with the battle of May Island but that was very incorrect.

The main difference here is that, The Battle of May Island was 3 canvases with a dozen of assets while Eve Online is over 70 Canvases with over a hundred assets, some of which I had to create as I was going along, a good chunk of assets about a third were made as I was animating.

Having never worked on a project so large I did not realize how much work it would be and told Fred some poor estimates he then forwarded to all of you.

I felt like I needed to explain why it took me so long to animate as I don't want you to get overhyped for these animations which are in essence very similar to May Island's and older videos with minor improvements. 

A lot of other lessons were also learned while producing this video, all of which will be useful on the much shorter videos we'll be releasing next!

Once more, I have to thank all of you for your patience when it comes to this video, you're absolutely fantastic and I would not be where I am today without Fred and you guys.

Now, for show and tell today I have a project which my partner (Not Fred) and I have been working on unrelated to the current video. (I'm barely helping them, this is all their work)

More will be revealed in the future!

-Arcaxon