Centaur Things - Release Question... Split Into 2 Parts? *IMPORTANT* (Patreon)

Hello all! So, as you may know, Centaur Things is an incredible difficult animation AND the rendering is incredibly time consuming. Looking ahead at whats left with the animation, I don't think the rendering would be done by the end of this month, even if I had 100% of the animation done today.

So, I have some options for you to consider... here are my thoughts below. Personally, I THINK I would prefer Option 1.

OPTION 1) Release the first "half" of Centaur Things this month, then the second half next month. The first half is around 7 minutes long. Once both parts are done, I will combine them into a single animation. (Kind of like I did with AML 6 by breaking it into 2 parts).

OPTION 2) Wait until the full animation is done and just release it all when its done.

Option 3) Create a time machine, go back in time and use my computer while past me is asleep in bed to get more animation done. This would allow me to release the animation last week.

If you want to know why this particular animation is taking so long VS my previous ones, well, the short version is this. It takes twice as much work to animate each character. All my animation is done by hand so there is no shortcut or real work around to this.

Each of these "curves" is animated by hand. Sometimes many times for each second of animation:

On top of that, it literally takes two to three times longer to render a single frame of animation. Right now, the animation is around 8700 frames. EACH of those frames took between 8 and 14 minutes to render. I have around 4000 frames left to animate which will take roughly 27 days of rendering time (I have multiple computers so maybe that would be around 13 extra days of rendering). 

ON TOP OF THAATTTTTT... not only is this the most complex animation I have ever done, not only is rendering two or three times longer... this is also the longest animation I have ever had planned. So... yeah, kinda a perfect storm!

 I am SUPER SUPER excited to start on the next surprise scene but I need to get this finished first!

Let me know your thoughts!