Progress Report 19/02 - 21 (Patreon)

Hello everyone and welcome to another progress report!

Writing this quickly after having come home after a night shift, which might make me unfocused and/or rambling, but I need this sorted since I'll be quite busy this coming weekend and I do not want to delay the report if I can help it. As such, apologies if the text below makes less sense than usual, as my English tends to suffer when I am tired :)

In this week's news in terms of larger projects, Continued Negotiations finally had a script running from start to finish! Until, that is, I decided to insert yet another scene into the project. From the look of things, and I believe I've mentioned this before but hey, the project is going to be, by far, my longest and most ambitious to date by every measure and definition, containing no less than 5 major scenes, and a series of 6 "short burst" scenes that are not quite as long but still aim to pad out the rest of the project. This is, of course, presuming I don't suddenly grow more insane and want to add more to it. By comparison, the first N7 Parnack Negotiations project contained 1 major scene, with 2 smaller ones following. I'll be trying to get the script into a readable state, where my own notes about animation bits and the likes are minimal, so that I can share it in the near future.

In terms of Breaking the Lineage, I've had some success again trying to get Shinnok into Blender, but the inverse is proving challenging. I'll keep you posted once I have this sorted, as it's still a project very much alive, but on hold.

Blitzballs has begun to see some scene posing for the primary area I'll be working in, as I rework the entire old structure, and is beginning to take shape in the early script department. It's more of an outline at this point, but one still much more concrete and comprehensive than the previous one, and I am honestly looking forward to doing it once it's finally Lulu's turn again to shine. I seemingly cannot for the life of me lose in Blitzball with more than 5 goals, but I will be giving it a few more shots when I get around to playing FFX again, just to be sure to have maximum footage for the project :)

Underground Fundraising sadly stood largely still this week, owing to lack of time and a slight dip in motivation. It's coming though - I just need to not force it when I feel less inclined to work on it, in order to keep the creativity alive.

And that's it for this week. Thank you, as always, for your continued support and for all of your kind words! While times certainly are rough across the world, there is always some comfort to find in some classic old solidarity - in that, I hope you're doing as well as you can, given the circumstances, and that you'll come out on top in the struggles of life :)

The first step on the road to that is, of course, to take care of yourselves, and each other!
/DH