Dear Patreons,
Hope you're all well! I've had a wonderful week with lots of birthday happiness and greetings. There were even some of you that sent in a drawing or two for the occasion and that really warmed my heart!
In the land of Tales of Zale things are chugging along as well. I got that NAS drive that I wrote about in my previous post and have been able to bring the production over to that, which has saved me a lot of time and worry. One of the computer bugs that I've been confronting in this little 'cleanup campaign' (the "constantly-on-sticky-keys"-bug) I have not been able fix unfortunately. Might have to take that to repair sometime... But it's all steps forward!
The storyboarding for this upcoming episode has been going really well too, to the point where I'm almost done with the first draft! After a couple of adjustments in the script I should be able to send it off to the voice actors pretty soon so we can get an animatic going!
That also means that I will be launching two new auditions to cast two characters that appear for the very first time in this episode. One is a buffalo named Bruhn and the other is Elva's father, Xerxes (although he's been in the background of some shots before). You heard it here first folks!
But don't worry, we've got plenty of other surprises in store.....
(PS. As soon as I'm moving into animation or background-making I'm planning on holding a livestream! If I were to do it right now it'd make for too many early spoilers)