Encounter 2 - Early Preview (Public) (Patreon)

With my animations continuously increasing in scope, runtime, and production time, it seemed like a good idea to do a public preview at some point, as throughout the last weeks I've received a considerable amount of messages asking me if I still do animations. Here's hoping that this preview will answer some of these burning questions and give a few insights as to when to expect the next major animation!

As the name already suggests, Encounter 2 is a direct sequel to the previous bossfight style animation. It still keeps the same tone, but is more designed as a lengthy cutscene, rather than an actual bossfight as it was the case with the previous one. This time Zoe and our Space Hero will be a bit more familiar with each other, which their interactions will reflect. I won't go ahead and spoil what's going to happen, but you can probably already assume it, given my record of previous animations! :D

I'm trying out a few new things here visually, with this being my first animation that will feature partial ray tracing for selected scenes, as well AI image reconstruction to further increase the 4K rendering quality. I've originally aimed at September 2021 as the release date for the preview version, but considering I'm currently extending some of the mawplay bits by multiple scenes, October seems a bit more realistic. It's usually pretty hard to give a proper estimate with these big animations, as there are usually a lot of things that can go wrong during production, or take considerably longer than first assumed, so take these dates with a grain of salt!

As always, I'll first release a Patreon-exclusive preview that will still have a few scenes missing. Then roughly one month later there will be a full release, which will include a public version as well! The difference here being quality, with Patreon versions being encoded at near lossless bitrates and offering up to 4k/HDR at a native 60 FPS, where the public version will be limited to 1080p/30FPS.

Here's hoping you're looking forward to the animation, as an insane amount of work has already gotten into it!