Update on the Future of Anthro Releases

Hey Gearheads!

Some of you have been more vocal than others on how you feel about the way things have been going with the anthro releases, but I hear you and I've been thinking about how to make things better for everything.  After years of MLP models being super locked down as personal models or difficult-to-convert SFM models I felt like I hit the motherload with the Erostud archive and at one release a month he could have set us up for years.

Alas, we're not an MLP community.  We started as an anime community and expanded into the other main genres, mostly drawing from video game characters and gradually started peppering in the more fringe genres to spice things up, keep things interesting, bring in additional community members, etc. So it was back to the drawing board and back to basics.

We still have good ties with Flapcats (previously waeverstan), who is a great Anthro animator and does extended animations.  We have his Gardevoir and Bonnie animations.  They will be challenging to convert as they are designed for toon shading in Eevee, but we'll roll up our sleeves and get to it.  After that, we'll have our eyes on his Fredrica and Roxy animations to finish off his recent FNAF series.  He and Anthro Diva are also working on Suki (Sing 2) animations and the model is HQ and quite curvy.

Aside from that, we're still on the lookout for new artists to make connections with for conversions.  IF you guys come across any, shoot them my way.  One of you guys brought Nathan to my attention.  He shows a lot of potential and has agreed to a conversion starting with his recent Krystal Fox handjob/blowjob POV animation.  Right now I'm doing some touch up on the scene and after rendering it I'll put the VRA touch on the audio, but the original is pretty long, which is nice too.

Lastly, from now on the anthro release will be a bonus release each month that'll most likely come sometime between the middle and end of the month depending on when it's ready.  When it's a longer one like this or the Flapcats one, plan on closer to the end of the month, but it'll be worth the wait.  That way for the people that aren't interested, they still get a regular release every week.

I know you can't please all the people all the time, but hopefully, this will please more of you, and ideally, we'll be able to grow to the point where there are different branches of VRA for major genre grouping.

TL;DR

- Longer Anthro Animations Coming Back along with the character variety

- New Anthro Animator for conversions, Nathan_W https://twitter.com/NathanLillie7 

- Anthro Releases will still come monthly, but no longer take up a weekly release slot