Update/Delay/Planned future changes (Patreon)

16/10 Update: I'm almost done with the playblast, but unfortunately I won't be able to quite get it done today, and as I won't have access to my PC on Saturday, it will need to be finished after that. So release should be between Sunday night/Monday morning.  Again, sorry for the constant delays with this one!

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Hey,

So first off, the upcoming playblast will need to be delayed a bit further, due to my progress being less than great recently. There are various reasons, like social events I did not properly take into account in my schedule, and some sick days and what not, but a big part of it is due to the long project. The longer a project goes on, the more I lose personal interest in the project, and thus it becomes harder to work on, as the "reward" of finishing it remains still so far away. This does of course affect the speed I work at.

The initial "around the end of the month" date for PB7, was my attempt to slowly force myself to ramp up the production speed for the succubus animation, but it seems like I'm not ready for that, at least not yet. Maybe once I'm closer to the finishing line.

Now, on addressing the issue with the creeping burn out with longer projects: It happened with Dimini Ch2 Pt1, and I'm feeling it with this one as well, so I doubt it's going to go away with future projects either. So what I'm likely going to be doing in the future, is instead of having just one long project in the oven, I'll also be doing occasional shorter projects during those longer projects. Stuff similar to "fun with teach" and so on, that are just roughly a minute long. Or even short mildly interactive real-time scenes. Something that can break my normal work routine a bit.

These short projects won't occur regularly though. Instead, they'll be something I'll dedicate a month to, every now and then.

This will likely be after I'm done with the succubus animation though, so I'll still be finishing the succubus animation, before working on something else. (The same goes for the audio book thing, I won't look into that more before the current project is done)

I'm hoping all that will reinvigorate my passion for this stuff a bit, without the need of taking a massive break, although I'll of course still take a break after the succubus animation is done. I do realize that I had a poll for mini-animations recently, where it was heavily in favor of longer animations, so this is going against that, but I feel this is something I need to do, if I want to be able to keep on doing this in the future as well.

What does this mean for you? It means longer release intervals for the big projects, and instead, you'll get occasional smaller, but finished content during the wait for the next big release. 

As always, feel free to let me know your opinion in the comments.

Thank you for you time, and hopefully you can look forward to the next playblast in about a week!