Preview - Another new animation: Shizu/Hirai (Patreon)

tl;dr - I've wrapped up the release early for once!

Shizu/Hirai animation

This one is from an existing phone message - the one you get if Shizu has had sex with Hirai and you've given her the butt plug. This is the only one of the new animations that has been added to a message in the shops district and the only one that wasn't based on a "fake video" sequence (where I say there's a video Shuji has received but I don't show an animation, of which there are several). All three of the other animations coming this month are in "fake video" scenes and they're all from the normal phone message sets from Hirai, so they're easier to find.

Other animations?

I did a review of the existing phone animations to see whether there were any other easy ones I could get this month and I didn't really see too many, but that doesn't mean that I won't do any more. I just came to two thoughts:

Mostly the phone scenes that would be good to animate would be Hirai scenes, because they involve movement, while the non-Hirai ones are mostly just the girls posing. If I want to add more animations that aren't Hirai-based, they'll probably have to be in larger scenes, not phone messages.

If I want to animate more of the Hirai messages, I'll probably have to construct new angles rather than just animating existing ones, so that will be a little more work.

It's nice to have things wrapped early this month

I wrapped up the build several days ago, which is great! Recently I've been unable, for one reason or another, to get ahead of schedule with releases in the way I like to be. I guess it's in part because the releases have been fairly large and sort of inflexible (an interactive scene needs to be complete and unlockable) compared to releases based on adding a lot of smaller features, where I can just draw the line wherever I feel like.

If you guys appreciate the addition of animations like these I might do some more updates like this from time to time, because it's really quite liberating to not have to do a large writing task every month; it means my creative energy doesn't get depleted and I can spend it elsewhere, on new ideas and longer term development goals.

Just in general, I find (and I know this isn't true for everyone, it's just me) that I'm way more creative and productive when I don't have any pressure to complete something specific. I enjoy making stuff and it's a habitual part of my daily routine, but it's always easier for me when I can just make whatever I feel like rather than having to do a specific thing by a specific deadline.

Because of that, I'm going to try to get even more ahead of schedule, and if that means some more quickie releases in the upcoming future I kind of apologise for that, but also I think if you're reading this far into the post you probably understand.

Would you guys be interested in seeing any more updates that focus on animating more of the existing scenes? Let me know in the comments below!