Hiatus from animated projects next month

Hello all,

I will be pausing production on all animated projects for the entirety of September 2023 due to personal reevaluation and mental health concerns.

What this means:

• I will not be posting any new content during September 2023.
• Current patrons will NOT be charged on September 1st, 2023.
• Returning/new patrons will still be charged if they choose to pledge during September 2023. Their next billing cycle is on October 1st, 2023.

I have been in an extreme creative block lately which has resulted in a lack of motivation across all my projects. In turn, this has generated an unhealthy amount of stress that has also affected the quality of my work.

Because of this lack of motivation, I have grown to procrastinate and get extremely lazy with my animated work which is something I definitely don't want to continue doing. It creates the inverse goal of why I do all this stuff in the first place -- to improve and to make me and others happy. But due to this constant stress I feel like I haven't been improving (or getting happier) at all.

For next month I will be taking the month off to completely separate myself from most production work and to just focus on myself; to finally relax, and to finally focus on either improving or just doing anything else other than long-term stuff. I'm hoping that this time away from large and overwhelming projects will allow me to come back in a more positive spirit.

Content will be posted next week

As of right now, I am trying to render out some shots from Scenes 3 and 4 for Untitled 2: Part One to get them posted before September. It's been a continuous rinse-and-repeat (re-animate and re-render) process for a while now since I need to keep redoing shots that either return blatant lighting/geometry issues or the animation just looks awful in render. Sadly this process isn't as simple as clicking "Render" only once nowadays.

I'm still not happy with a lot of the final results personally, but I plan on getting some of what is completed of Scenes 3 and 4 posted next week, as well as posting the rendered composition of Scene 1 publicly onto the trello board.

I cannot stress enough to continue apologizing for my lack of activity on this project. I just really haven't been driven to continue working on it all that much lately.

If you have any further questions or inquiries, you may still reach out via Discord.

Take care,

A