Progress Report, 29/04 - 23 (Patreon)
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Hello everyone and welcome to another in the line of progress reports!A little late this one, so my apologies for that. Friday turned out a supremely hectic day where I've, on short notice, been invited to family birthday celebration this weekend as well as a wedding mid-week next week, which required some rather extensive preparations. Most noteworthy, getting my car into shape to ferry me some 3000km in total. It's nothing that will interfere with the update schedule otherwise, save for perhaps Wednesday's wallpaper, but I endeavor to have that sorted during Tuesday and make a cheeky scheduling for Wednesday morning if all goes well.Needless to say it's been a stressful week, but I've still managed to get some work done. Ivy project is the primary focus at the moment, with some model work also resolved - a Helena Harper model is prepped and ready, while I'm working on seeing how a Bayonetta (which has been highly requested) one will shape up. The new schedule is also starting from next week onward, so I'm considering something of a smaller experimental piece for Monday to test some Cycles rendering out, but we'll see how much time I'm afforded this weekend for such ambitions. Speaking of: New Update Schedule!For emphasis, those of you who missed the 2-week long poll and the elaboration I made a week back, the new schedule starts in May and means a 3 animations per month update basis. This will consist of 2 normal animation loops and 1 more ambitious one. As a rule, the first 2 Mondays of a month will feature the normal loops so that I can cram as much work as I can into the last 1 remaining, which will release towards the end of the month and not necessarily on a Monday. The Alley Crew ($10 tier) retain their 2 polls per month, but has had character and theme cooldowns doubled for the purposes of getting more variation - I'll be monitoring the results closely as to make sure the increase is sufficient or if I have to increase them further.I'm still unsure what to call the "more ambitious work" animations, but I reckon they could fit the bill of the old "Scenarios" idea I had a while back, so let's go with that for now.But I digress, work continues, so thank you, as always, for your continued support and for all of your kind words - I cannot emphasize enough how I wouldn't be able to do this without your support. I'm excited to see how the new schedule will turn out as well, as more frequent project work of mine has been heavily requested I hope that it'll serve to bridge the gap between larger projects in that sense. If anything, I hope it'll still the nerves of those who wanna see more of that creampie action - and hey, to be fair I think most of us do, at the end of the day.Take care of yourselves, and each other, and drive safely out there!/DH