Blood Crown Update (Patreon)

Time for an in depth Blood Crown update. I'm going to go over: the status, the cause of the delays and what the future holds.

Before you read on, check out the little teaser clip I've included with this update. This is the concept for the reimagined intro. It does not contain sex but nevertheless, I hope you like the direction I'm taking with this and it will give a little more context to what we're about to dive into. As usual though, it's overly dramatic :)

The status of BC and reason for the delays

Let's begin with the status. There's no point in launching into a forensic analysis here, the project isn’t in a state where estimates would hold water. Originally I had planned on releasing Blood Crown in 2 parts. First pass animations had been completed for all scenes including part 1 and part 2 transitional and sex scenes about two years ago. However when it came to the polish phase, which is theoretically the last animation pass I wasn't happy with the overall quality, which stalled progress. We at the time attempted various approaches, each of which took a considerable amount of time, but in the end it basically boiled down to me doing all the polish. Fine in theory, but that's where things got messy. In short, the project has progressed only a little since then.

I've been asked, why are you slower as a team than this solo artist x. Actually the team adds complexity before it becomes efficient, but the bottom line is, as complex as animation projects are, they work themselves out so long as the guy running the show stays focused. I however got distracted a lot, by too many projects and I can get lazy. My fault and I take responsibility. One thing that’s never changed though, is my interest in the project. So…

What does the future hold for BC?

That's where the teaser comes in. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on it. It's a new approach to getting BC completed, but first a disclaimer:

For the purpose of Patreon content, consider BC content only as bonus material. We've taken off the BC image and logo from the Patreon banner, BC is only being referred to in the intro as bonus material and I haven't been doing any Affect3D updates. In other words, don't expect any BC content.

Having said that, I do plan on working on it as follows: As someone suggested, I’m breaking up part 1 of BC into several parts. Don't yet know how many but I plan on releasing half of part 1 to Patreon. I’ll work on parts sequentially and release them as I complete them. In the meantime, I'll keep doing monthly BC updates. I'm reengineering the project to bring it up to the latest tech, style, and fidelity that I'm able to produce and I'm pretty stoked about it. That’s my update for now, let me know if you have any questions in the comments below.