Update on Animators and Milestones (Patreon)

This last fiscal quarter has been a terrible stress on our animators, and unfortunately, as you might be aware, Red-Valentine has already been going through a serious set of issues. We've been trying to work with them for the past month to see if they can deal with their recovery process and working with us at the same time, but it simply hasn't been possible despite the best efforts of both sides. Red-Valentine will be leaving us for the time being, but we're keeping a candle lit in the window for them in case they're ever able to return.

In the mean time, we are bringing on two part time animators at the beginning of the month, Carbonoid and LucidLemonLove will be joining the team. We're also redoing our animation pipeline to try and catch up with how drastically far behind we've fallen given our circumstances. Previously our two animators would each do a complete animation from beginning to finish. Come the beginning of next month, Dieselbrain will be handling the keyframes and rough sketches between them, and Carbonoid and LucidLemonLove will be handling the inbetweens, then any finishing touches will be applied by Sprite37 as needed and our budget allows us to hire him, or else wait until the last stage of development, the polish phase, which will begin some time next year provided nothing else goes horribly wrong.

Finally, the Milestones have been updated to reflect this change in team structure, and a third slot for animation expansion, either hiring more part timers, or else other art duties which is where we've fallen the most behind in.