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Chris here once again.

In my last post I said how we love to be translucent as a team. Although there are some things you may not know, such as upcoming Smashified characters. Omni has always maintained a level head in never releasing the names of our upcoming character roster. For one it's changing constantly. Right now I can tell you that we are working on two characters simultaneously. They will be our 12th and 13th characters.


#12 has been in development for a long time. Since before the Iwata tribute magazine cover we did. I know, that long. Why has it taken so long you ask? Well we were a bit busy with life, and making our Patreon page. But this character is back in the pipeline and is one of the foremost important things on our todo list.


Now it's no secret that we are beginning to make money off of our artistic endeavors as a team. We worked with NF magazine, we launched Patreon and Gumroad. But there is more you might not know. For instance, several major gaming companies have asked us to illustrate their character in the style of Smash! Up until recently we couldn't meet an agreement with some of these developers. 


I would like to announce that our 13th character will be the first of which we are being commissioned to do. This character isn't as highly requested, but we wouldn't work on them if we couldn't find a good reason to do so. While being paid is nice, we wouldn't just work on any character. Our time is limited so we'll work on the highly suggested and interesting characters almost exclusively. So trust me when I say this character brings something new and exciting to our series. Both our 12th and 13th character will be out as soon as we can get them finished. 


Don't worry, we have more SplatShine to share as well. Sean painted plenty of pieces and a few would make for great extended commentaries. Plenty more content coming soon!


In the meantime, enjoy this new fur test that I made just last night. It's for our 12th Smashified character. After Banjo and Dixie we've gotten only better at painting hair. I figured it was about time we nailed it. So I studied up and 3D sculpted it. Between this and some paint I'm sure we'll be able to really get the fur we are looking for.


We are looking forward to whats up coming, and hope you are too. Thanks again for your support!


-Chris

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Anonymous

This post was a bit of a letdown. Its titled Upcoming Smashified Characters and starts by saying that you like to be translucent as a team. Then you say you won't tell us what they are. Sorry, but that's pretty disappointing that you aren't willing to let your patrons in...

curiomatic

Hey Tyler, Sorry that you're disappointed =/, I'm sure Chris didn't intend to mislead with the title. While I understand that letting you guys in on identity of the upcoming characters certainly seems like the most obvious way to demonstrate transparency, the element of surprise is something a lot of our viewers value, and it's a facet of our content rollout strategy that we take very seriously. To give you an example, for a while in the first few months with the team, we didn't even tell any of the musicians on the team what characters were in the pipeline. =P While the Patreon blog is hypothetically a closed system, it's not hard to imagine that information can easily escape the boundaries of exclusivity, and while spreading that information is pretty counterintuitive to the idea of information as a reward, it's still a possibility we have to consider. After all, nobody here is contractually bound to keep the information within this circle. Along with that, we don't want to make the assumption that every patron wants to be spoiled on what the upcoming characters are, and that's something we want to respect as well. That's our reasoning for keeping things under wraps, and hopefully it makes sense. We'll endeavor to be as forthcoming as possible, but only within reason, as we do want to make sure that the disclosure of information is not done to the detriment of the community's experience overall. However, we'll continue to keep an open dialogue with you guys, as we can always adjust our policy as we move forward. Just understand that we're still adapting to this platform. ~Omni

Anonymous

this. i for one enjoy the surprise of the characters- the debating on who's next is whats so fun about the series- just like when an actual smash brothers game is coming out the hype is usually around who's next to be announced- to just have a list of the characters posted would almost be like when the leaks happened- I don't know about you guys but when that happened yeah i was excited but all that debating and the sense of endless possibilities was lost for me.