UPDATES: What I've been doing so far (I'm so close!) (Patreon)

Hello everyone. ;)THIS IS A LONG POST, BUT IT CONTAINS A BUNCH OF UPDATES AND USEFUL DETAILS ABOUT THE ANIMATIONIf you have the time, I'd really appreciate if you could read it, Thank you! =)Believe it or not, I haven't posted any updates lately because I've chosen to spend all my available time working on the animation.But I should really spare more time giving you updates, just some days ago I was talking to a few patrons about this (via Discord) and some pointed out that a lot of Patreon creators are taking a vacation break this month...This is not my case! =P I can assure you that summer vacation hasn't started for me yet XD  I'm just stupid enough to give the impression that I haven't been working, due to my lack of updates, which is probably giving the impression that I just left and didn't care about the animation anymore (Well, if you thought that, you couldn't be more wrong!) :P It's just that I tend to spend too much time writing long and eloquent patreon posts, wasting a lot of time trying to fix my english (as best as I can) and explaining several things about the projects... but hey, this really has to be done.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Here's a small glimpse of what I've been doing:

I've rendered all frames so far! ;)Well... This screenshot was actually taken some days ago, but then I made even more extra scenes for the animation. I realized I needed these extra scenes while I was editing the video. (some scenes were ridiculously short, and even pointless from a directors perspective) so these new scenes were indeed essential!The animation is much better now, (and I've also finished rendering the new scenes today) ;)The huge collection of PNG renders D:

85 GB of frames. This is by far the biggest animation I ever made!(I've pixelated some scene names in order to hide some spoilers!!!) =P

** THE RENDERING IS DONE, SO I STARTED WORKING ON THE VIDEO **

Too much time needed to work on details:(RIGHT CLICK to view image in full size)

The image above is just one example of the several scenes I've been improving in Adobe AfterEffects.FIXING ANIMATION BUGS/ARTIFACTS:

Fixing problems like these WOULD be a simple task in Photoshop. But this is a video! Fixing artifacts frame by frame is a very different story. I try different approaches (like "motion tracking" the movements of the characters, painting the correction on a new layer, and make this layer follow the character's movements) which saves a lot of time, but it's still very time consuming.You could argue that these little things are a bit pointless, but I consider them extremely distracting, and besides, I'm trying to make this animation as perfect as possible. ;)

COLOR CORRECTIONS PER SCENE, SPECIAL EFFECTS, MOTION BLUR, CAMERA TRICKERY, LIGHTING SYSTEMS, etc etc etc...

Here are some screenshots were lighting effects made sense ;)

Example of a scene where "motion blur" was necessary: 

I don't want to show too much in order not to spoil the whole thing, but you get the idea ;)Effects were used when necessary, especially during impactful scenes.I'm really carried away with the idea of making an amazing animation!At the moment, the animation is 10 minutes long, but I haven't finished editing all scenes yet. So once I join the last few scenes (and work on them where necessary) the animation will be longer than that!And this is the part that I'm really hating to talk about...I've been doing nothing else but work on this animation, however, I still wasn't able to finish as much as I wanted by now! :(I said that the animation would be finished this month, I'm trying the absolute best to finish everything by July 31, but It's becoming impossible to finish every little thing by that time...  I might still be able to do it, but I'm afraid I'm gonna miss that deadline by 2 or 3 days (which is a shame really, because I'm so close!)It just takes a lot of time to make this much work :(  This animation is longer than everything I ever made, and I'm trying to make it much better than the previous episode, and the things I described in this post are nothing compared to all the work and issues I had before.I completely understand if some of you decide to cancel your pledge before the end of this month. I just decided to put quality over speed... I'm too passionate about this to make things in a rush, and I spend way too much time perfecting details that most people might not notice. I'm afraid I'll have to delay the release date (even though it's just a couple of days this time)I know I messed up by making a few extra scenes (like I said, I really want it to be perfect) but I'm hoping that all these delays will be compensated once I publish the animation, regardless of whether or not you're a still a patron by the time I release it  ;)

Thank you for reading! And feel free to comment or ask any questions!