February (Patreon)

After January passed by in what felt like a week to me, we're kicking off February with this boring wall of text! Animation progress is good and it looks like I'll have all the rough keys finished this weekend, which will allow me to progress with animating details/tweaking before making everything fancy! The runtime of the first animation will be roughly a minute, and despite the short runtime there's been a horrendous amount of work flowing into animating this, as the characters are on screen for pretty much 100% of the entire animation. I've planned to render two versions with different camera angles of the entire thing, as there are a lot of animation details that might be missed otherwise. Still having a hard time giving an ETA just yet, especially since this is going to double an otherwise relatively short render time, but guessing early March seems safe. Of course I'll keep posting new WIP material, with new stuff coming up this weekend!

Apart from this, the month's transition came with a pretty tough decrease of roughly 50 patrons who apparently submitted invalid payment information. After the last month was free I somewhat expected expected this though, even though I still haven't fully figured out if content access is either immediate, or only available post payment. I'm still considering switching to Patreon's pay-up-front-to-get-instant-access feature (I'm sure they named it differently), but I'm afraid that it would just hinder patrons that need to take a break for a month from coming back in. Therefore I'll keep the system as it is for now and just remove those that were flagged with fraudulent payment information. Despite the heavy decrease we're going stronger than ever, which is thanks to you! So here goes a thank you to all patrons, old and new; for their incredible support on here! (: