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Progress Report
🕑 Added 2023-07-15 15:21:07 +0000 UTCAlright! I actually have a couple of this month's rewards ready or near ready. But I figured I ought to make a progress report first. I'll make a rare exception to my usual 'one post a day' rule and release a story reward tonight. But for now...
Left Hand Magic
I've finished Trix's weekend content, though it's going to need a LOT of post-processing this time -_-. That's going to be annoying. But it's mostly a lot of little stuff, like leaves poking through places they shouldn't, that are simple fixes. It also took me a day longer than I'd planned for/hoped for. This had nothing to do with others stuff taking up my time and everything to do with having to completely rerun the first animation, because it looked way too stiff when I tested the end product out. I'm still not 100% happy even with the redo, but given it's a 12+ hour animation to render, I'm not rerunning it again -_-. And it IS a fair bit better.
Regardless, I'm moving on to the Trix/Revina/MC threesome route today. Hopefully it will go a bit better and I can make up some lost ground. Not really counting on that, given that the animations for threesome routes are usually both the hardest and the have the longest render times. But we'll see. As of now I'm going to offically say it's unlikely I'll get farther through the weekend events than Arianna. So Trix/Reivna Threesome, Trix's Route, Talia's Route, and Arianna's Route. Plus the two scenes I already did to flesh out Weekday content for Week 4.
I may manage to squeeze a new masturbation scene in as well. But no promises. Even without that, it will still be a decent build. The weekend dates are always dual animation, so it would be 10 animations for 6 scenes. 12 and 7 if I manage to squeeze in a new masturbation day type encounter. Not the biggest build ever, but fairly average for a Left Hand Magic release. Which, given that I've had several extra things to juggle this month and got a delayed start, is a decent result, I think.
Mixed Media Story
This is on schedule. I've got 6 renders done, with another in progress. Despite getting a slightly late start on it this month, I'm not too worried about it. At worst, it should just be a smaller MMS, rather than any risk of it being late. Assuming, of course, that nothing goes badly wrong at any point.
Short Stories
As I mentioned, I'll be releasing one of the monthly stories (the addition to Mass Effect: Final Error I mentioned previously) tonight. As for the Eros Academy short, I haven't started on it yet, but that's on the schedule for today, as it happens.
Wallpapers
The wallpapers will hopefully be out sometime tomorrow. Doing the final post processing on them is also on the schedule for today. But it's possible I might not get to it. At worst, barring some sort of catastrophe, they shouldn't be any later than the 17th.
Upgrade Notice
Okay, folks. Once a year I upgrade my hardware in some fashion, simply to keep up with rendering needs. And the recent combination of Prime Day and Newegg's summer sale thingy were too perfect the chance. I've ordered a new Processor/MB/Ram setup that should serve to increase render speed/decrease render times on some projects. As well as alleviate some frustrating CPU-intensive features of Daz3D that have always made my blood pressure spike -_-. It won't be a major boost, that will have to wait until next year when I upgrade to a 4090 GPU. But it will help.
I'm only mentioning this here because it also, unfortunately, will take my primary rendering rig out of commission for at least a day when I actually do the upgrades. The parts aren't all here, so I haven't gotten it done yet. Hopefully it won't be a huge ordeal. But, in the worst case where something goes badly wrong (like having to reinstall Windows and Daz), it could cost a few days of lost progress. This is more a 'heads up' in case something does go wrong. Hopefully nothing will and it will speed things up a little for future builds. The CPU I've been using is a bit dated at this point (about 3 years old, even if it was pretty near top of the line then). So the upgrade should help.
