Progress Report (Patreon)

So....sorry I didn't do anything for Singles Awareness Day, yesterday :-(. I'm running behind on Left Hand Magic and just couldn't justify piling on an additional something that would add to the issues. Anyway...

Left Hand Magic

As I said, this is...not going particularly well. Or, rather, not going particularly fast. I'm a good three days behind my schedule and it's only mid-month. Yuck. Strangely, it's actually NOT the animations causing the issue. Rather, I'm needing a lot more still renders than I had anticipated. And some of them have also been taking longer than anticipated as well. Still, we aren't actually at the point of talking delays, yet. I always build in a little bit of flex to the schedule and we haven't quite exceeded that. Given how it's been going though, I'm not sure how long that will last. I'm doing my best to pick up the pace, but I'm running into hardware/time limitations rather than things I can just 'work harder' or 'more hours' on. 

Silas Station 4

This, on the other hand, is actually going better than I'd feared. As expected, render times have been somewhat extended due to some non-iray assets. However, the measures I took with that in mind seem to be enough so far. I've got 8 renders done, with the total for most Silas Station sets usually being 16-18. So, I'm coming along at an acceptable speed with this one.

Short Story

As you should know, I've already released one of the shorts this month. And, as it happens, I can happily state that the second one is coming along. I have a bit over 2000 words down already for it, though it's looking like it might be a longer one. The writing is coming easily enough that I don't think I'll have much trouble finishing it before the 20th or so, assuming nothing else gets in the way. Which is a nice plus, since getting it knocked out will free up time for the programming crunch at the end of the month.

Wallpapers

These are..um...actually done. Even the text. I just haven't posted them. I'll try to remember to put them up tomorrow. I figured you guys were due a progress report first...