Holiday Update

Man... Uploading everything online took over 4 hours. 💦 If only it was easier to upload that many "social media" versions to all the places I do.

But hey! Happy Holidays, hope the animation is to everyones liking! I want to do some more winter themed stuff during the season, so expect the next short animation to also have them dressed up.

Oh hey hold on 🐘 I think the elephant wants me to address him... Yeah that took longer than "tomorrow" like I was hoping for on the previous update. Oops.

It's for a few reasons:
Exporting took longer than expected. I saw the first few HD exports export in 20 minutes and thought "WOW this will be quicker than I thought" buuuuuut a combination of wanting to play games with friends, and not being literally perfect at exporting the next version as soon as the previous one finished wasted some time. Even with this new PC, trying to do other things can still extend the time it takes to export a video by quite a bit. I saw it add on to an individual export by anywhere from 10-40 minutes. Yikes. But hey this is all a learning experience so far, so good to know.

I usually add and animate facial expression/sound bits for alternate characters after finishing the export for the original characters(s) I animate with, and doing the sounds for the EN girls took a liiittle bit longer than I would've hoped. It wasn't too bad, but was still a factor.

And of course it was Christmas. I knew my family had plans, and I wouldn't say no of course... I just wasn't expecting it to take MANY more hours than I thought they were going to take. Family plans on both the 24th and 25th went on for at least 4 hours longer each than I was expecting. Not that that was a bad thing, it was actually quite a pleasant time without any stupid drama or bullcrap. It just certainly took some time away from me being able to do exports and video editing. Just letting y'all know for context.

I'll try not to feel bad about it though, I basically uploaded 4 animations in one. Sure they're "similar" but they are all still different from one another in rhythm and pose.

So speaking of time however, while I was hoping to get the next animation out before the year ended, at this point I probably can't. We're going to have some house work done that is well over a decade overdo. The area being worked on includes where I animate, meaning doing any animation work is probably out of the picture. I'll still try, I'll still have my PC setup elsewhere in the house, but you and I both know the type of stuff I'm animating isn't really something to let others see me doing. I'll absolutely still try at the very least to make another update post and such, maybe something like a Q&A, but otherwise animation work is going to be largely on hold until New Years.

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