Lulu's Ritual (Monthly Animation) And Update (Patreon)

Alright, it's finally here! The monthly animation, Lulu's Ritual! This was a ton of fun to put together. As you know, Kaeg has joined the team here at Dark Dreams, so from now on you can expect a higher quality animation each and every month from your poll results. I am extremely excited for next month's animation with Bayonetta! If you are a patron to Kaeg as well, here is the 2D version if you missed it.

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I think having Kaeg around to help with the monthly animation will allow me to focus more on ensuring that animations/conversions will be better quality, and have sound. It should also allow me to do more of my own animations!

As all animations and conversions from Dark Dreams are already in 4K, post processing is the only true enhancement available at this point for SFM. I am currently working on some new post processing techniques that will have more detail with less pixelization and noise. Some of you may have noticed in the past that certain animations looked extremely crisp and had better depth perception in VR, or just seemed "smoother" overall. Some of this is from testing the techniques I am utilizing for post processing. Hopefully this becomes more apparent over the next few weeks and months, and hopefully I can work out the kinks to ensure better quality with less noise.

Speaking of noise, if you didn't catch it before, I have taken Audiodude on to help with sound around here! Not every single animation will have sound, but pretty close to it. Starting with next week's posts you can expect the audio to start rolling in. Lack of sound was the number one complaint I heard from here, at VRPorn, and on Tumblr, so I think that is nipped in the bud. Mostly. Anyways, posts that have been edited to have sound by Audiodude will be credited to him as well as the original animation artist, so if you like what you see (and hear) you should definitely tell him so!

That's actually about it for updates. I have a couple ideas for new tiers and rewards to add, but I want to focus on the basics (sound, animation, and graphics) before I start adding more tiers. I always hated when video game companies would focus on silly things before fixing game breaking bugs or annoyances (adding DLC [IN EARLY ACCESS] before addressing faulty servers and multiplayer issues? I'm looking at you, ARK: Survival Evolved), so I want to make sure I don't follow suit. Regardless, I think you'll enjoy the new rewards if I can implement them correctly. Until next month...

-DZ

P.S. Ark used to be a lot of fun. It's just my opinion; form your own educated one.