Update 09/08 - Sword, Spear and Crutches (Patreon)

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It is ALFABUS

I am actually writing this very post, this very day.

Amazing.

What's new with the Poppenang crew?

HUNTER: THE PARENTING UPDATE

We're making steady progress on HTP 4!

Currently, its stuck in a bit of a bottleneck because of the huge amount of "Fullbodies" we're currently having designed.When we say "Fullbodies" we mean the designs reminiscent of the TTS style, with fullbody puppets drawn from a 3/4th angle.

This time, however, we're having everyone designed from all angles to make it easier to animate these scenes and give them a bit more dimensionality, a bit more life.You can see a few of the mmm... frontal fullbodies above.,.,. (drawn by RudeRubicante THANK YOU).

It is taking some extra time to get all the characters with all their different limbs and expressions fully illustrated, rendered and rigged, especially since we have SO many characters in this episode, but once its done we'll be able to use them in future episodes as well.

Garrot, our Lead Illustrator, is currently the only one drawing 'Panels' (that is to say individually drawn shots, like panels in a comic).At the moment, Garrot draws a few Panels per day, then Karl comes in and animates immediately them like an evergrowing sink hole. We love it.

Also, as I believe we've mentioned previously, we got Mackeerre back on deck to score the soundtrack for this Chapter much like he did the previous ones and he's almost scored the entirety of it already, it sounds absolutely fantastic and I am very happy we could get him back again, THANK YOU for affording us this.

Not too much to mention past that, just that working on HTP again is fantastic, love it, very cool and good, can't wait for you to see what we're conjuring!

NORFOLK WIZARD GAME

We've gotten a lot of useful and nice feedback on the first episode 0 of our Mage: The Ascension actualplay since we posted it here.Like Norfolk locals teaching us that they pronounce it "Norfuck" actually.That's fantastic, we have immediately course corrected on this.

The audio for the other Awakenings has almost been finished, just needing a bit of mixing, but we have unfortunately not had the opportunity to properly start on the visuals yet, as we're so focused on HTP 4 right now.

So, we're considering if it might be wise to release the other Awakenings as mp3s here for you to download and listen to without visual aide. Would you be interested in that?

Tell us in a funny comment below and we will see if it might be worth doing just to get this party started and get more feedback in!

... And I believe that's it for this time.

We're going to continue to focus on HTP 4 and, should you wish to listen to the Awakenings early, I'll focus on providing downloads for them as well.

Thank you very much for sticking around.

Until next time, have a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!