Undercover ASSignment Update + Suggestions (Patreon)

Continued working on the extra scene since people really liked it. I worked on her head motion and lips for the majority of the scene. In total, the scene is about 40 seconds long and I've got 30 seconds of it nearly complete. It's almost good enough to be released as a prototype but not quite. It's possible I could have it preview ready for next week.

I've also done some more thinking about the movie structure. I want a public release of the movie up to around scene 3 by the end of the year. That would be fully complete for those scenes, all sounds and editing. At which point, I'm considering the production of the rest of the movie. Perhaps I should release the rest as shorter, separate movies. Examples could be, krogan scenes get re-worked to Tuchanka, Elcor scene reworked to the Citadel. It would provide a bit more variety and an excuse to try some different settings than more of the same club. It'd also allow me to try some other short projects in between than stay working on one huge project all the time. Even at a much better pace, this movie as a whole is still going to take a while.

On that note, I wonder what you guys think about stuff other than the movie. That is, I've gotten a bit frustrated with my lack of content. The movie is going reasonably well, but any given update takes a lot of time. Out of that, progress with Blender isn't really getting anywhere. Render times that are 10x as much for stuff that doesn't really look as good as I can make in SFM isn't currenlty worth it. I do think Blender is the way forward, and Eevee has a lot of potential, but I'm not entirely sure it's the move I need to make now, especially with my older PC. I still need to get better at working with the shaders, and the effort to rigging characters creates a pretty huge barrier to starting any project in Blender

I've thought about making some loops or shorter projects in SFM this year and try to focus more on Blender when I can build a new PC next year. But then I'm not really sure what I should do. It's like I don't have much of an identity more than my Mass Effect stuff and occassional Dragon Age/ Witcher projects. I want to branch out, but I don't really know what other people would like.

TL;DR Feedback on breaking the movie up? What about working on some other stuff? What other things should I try?