Samus Aran Animatic Update

Greetings everyone! I promise, once a trello-like system is integrated into the website, you'll never have to see another update post again... until then here's another update post.

Thank you to all who helped to test the video player! Diligent patrons helped to identify a number of issues on mobile phones, including a significant issue with the video player on IOS devices. If you're an IOS user, I would appreciate it if you can find some time to test the video player and report any oddities or issues to me as soon as you can.

That said, I am not yet ready to release the Samus animatic. At nearly five minutes, it's my longest audio-visual project in the fetish space, and it's easily my favorite work to date. It's the kind of rare project where you hope for its success more than usual. It's almost a little intimidating, and in that anxious space, I ended up slowing down my production a little bit, tweaking minute details and asking for small retakes here and there that I wouldn't have bothered with. My goal went from completion to perfection. New art got added on as it expanded, going from 7 stills to 11. The interplay of sound and visuals is much stronger than initially planned. The sound design got richer as mentioned in the past. Simply put, I'm having fun, and I'm excited... which doesn't happen often when you do these as much as I do. Last time this happened was with Hatsune Miku, and obviously that one got delayed a good deal. Thankfully, the Samus animatic is nearing completion, but I want to use the opportunity spent fixing up the video player as an opportunity to really fine-tune the piece. I'm sure this will come as a disappointment to many of you, but I can assure you it will be three days at most, possibly just one extra day of work (so between the 1st and the 3rd of August). This will have no affect on the Hatsune Miku motion comic's deadline, either.

If it would please you, I am happy to provide a preview, although if the video player is still wonky, it would need to be an audio-only preview. But it is far along enough that there are feature complete parts ready to be shared! Please let me know what you think. I apologize for July being a weaker month than usual, but I believe the finished product will speak for itself, and I intend to work much harder come August.