Sublo update - designs, artbook stuff, thoughts (Patreon)

Lately I've been animating for the next episode and I'll share a scene or reel soon, but I've also been knocking out the rest of this season's character designs. I won't reveal any major spoiler-y stuff but I'll share some of it in a separate post right after this one. Once the floodgate opens and the next episode is released, the following ones should come much sooner. Not weekly or anything, but every 2-4 months rather than a year+ like this current delay. I'm really sorry for the long gap. I promise it frustrates me more than anybody else. I foolishly write each season thinking this time it will be different and the episodes will all appear in the span of a year or so, and it never happens.

I'm also working on the artbook PDF for the first few episodes. You'll get to see the Shocking Origins of Sublo and Tangy Mustard, and weird horrible versions of Katy and Wubhamer I've never posted online before. Also putting together a zine or purely-text PDF of early documents like journals, plans, notes, etc. Basically a "How I Developed S&TM" collection. I haven't gotten deep enough into the old files to know exactly what form it'll take, but you'll get it here when it's ready.

Speaking of the big gap since Nightclub-- I already rambled about this on twitter the other day, but I'll paraphrase here:

I just read a book of interviews with Paddy McAloon, one of my favourite songwriters. He claims to be sitting on several album's worth of songs, but his output has slowed to a sad trickle and his last real release was over a decade ago. I felt a horrifying reverse-motivation reading him try to justify his inactivity. I empathize with his excuses, but in the end I still just want to shake him and say "get your shit together and put some music out!" He has a lot of particular artistic standards and rules he feels are important, but as a fan I don't really care much about them. I just want him to release something, anything! I have my share of outwardly-weird fussiness about my own work, and honestly I don't even think it's inherently a bad thing. Those idiosyncrasies and disciplines can be part of what makes your art unique, but they can also be taken too far and stop you from actually finishing any work. In my case the delay is more due to being busy with day jobs and re-settling back across the continent, and I'm not a perfectionist by any stretch... but I do recognize a bit of a self-sabotaging "oh no, I couldn't just do the easy thing" mentality that slows me down sometimes. Earlier this year I was on probably the toughest job of my career so far, and Sublo progress slowed to a crawl, but right now I have more time, and reading this book has lit a raging inferno under my ass. I'm determined to get something substantial out ASAP!