some updates + valentine's creamed version on the way (Patreon)

Hey all, soon I'll have to attend an event that abruptly came up so I won't have any private time to work on animations for a few days - not really happy about it since this is one of those shorter months, but it's not up to me. That aside, got some updates:

• I have two animations (hinoa & minoto + princess) I want to ship out this month but I haven't heard back from the voice actress since the 6th when we last spoke. I checked in on the 12th but still empty on a response, and there's no activity on her page since then so I'm hoping she's doing okay. I haven't been invoiced yet either. Really hoping to get the audio before or by the 20th like I initially discussed with her.
  
  In the meantime I'm working on the next ice mom scene and plotting out a script to go with it, and evaluating some of the technical hurdles for a bathtub setting. I'll have to model a bathroom from scratch to accommodate the idea too. There's still one poll animation lagging behind but I will complete that between renders.
  
• The Valentine's Day animation's creamed version is rendering as I type this out. Should be done in around an hour or less if there's no final issues, expect to see another post on that soon. The VR version will take a little more time, more on that below.
  
• My motion capture order was slated for end of January but got delayed to the last half of February due to supply issues. This would be a massive help for starting some of my longer animation plans, so fingers crossed it finally comes in and works as planned!
  
• More VR adaptions are in the works & processing. These can take more than triple the amount of time to render than usual, so I render them while I work. It needs a lot of footage testing to make sure the camera is in the right place, motion tweaks for VR, filling in off-camera details, native 60fps conversion, etc.
  
  I want the VR videos to feel like they were thought out and not just a simple conversion to cross off. You can try some of the very early footage right now if you're keeping up with the Discord's patron-only channels.

^ An early preview in VR perspective. The widening distortion is a screen capture quirk.

• The VA I wanted for Camilla is no longer on hiatus so I'll be collecting some audio for a few smaller animations. It took a while but I'm excited to work with her!

That's about all I've got to list for now, I'll try to get more preview renders out soon. Really trying to get more stuff out as early as possible but there's always more factors involved in the release cycle.

Thank you, and endless thanks for your support as always!