A quick look ahead for the Animation Tier and a POLL!

ANIMATION TIER ONLY - ask and you shall receive! (Poll ends November 9th)

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You know our best results in the Patreon are when we all come together! We've seen the most success when we are in sync with new ideas - SO HERE GOES!

Working on wrapping up this Sunday's animation but wanted to drop an early preview to YOU the animation tier about November and heading onto the end of this year. This is regarding the current site wide poll here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-for-ideas-31026914 

Two big topics to cover here - color sequences and new characters/storylines. I see things like voice acting getting lots of votes and that is being investigated but COLOR and STORY LINES are something we can look at a bit sooner.

Color Sequences

Based off the EARLY poll results it looks like color is a pretty well received idea for the animations as well as a desire for higher 'production values' (which translates to adding things like color). 

So, I said to myself if there is a combination of a) interest in color and b) a request for better production even if it meant shorter overall runtimes then WE MIGHT... we just might have a perfect storm for getting a full color monthly sequence. 

Allow me to elaborate

Here is a ROUGH plan. I will look to add a TINY bit of color into November’s animation. This would be one sequence MAYBE two. Short bits so I can get a feel for what it would take and how long it would take. Mostly the idea would be to color the clothing and a character (or something like that). 

I am not talking about going FULL GHIBLI and having these lush backgrounds and full painted characters. I will be easing into this one. 

So, we see how that looks AND how you like it and we touch base at the end of the month to see if you are enjoying the way things are. From there I would be moving forward with adding in more color sequences till we have an end to end colored sequence coming out each month. I want to be clear again when I say “color” I am talking about coloring the characters (skin, clothing) and maybe some of the effects and backgrounds. At this point I can’t say this is going to directly become amazing full color anime sequences in a month or two. It will take time and coloring is a process. I work to be efficient but coloring can be two, three or possible four times the amount of work that just penciling is. I am basing that off the color animated sequences I have done and my color panels in the comic. Comics and animations are NOT colored the same I know but there is some connection. I also did color a few early animations (at least in part) and that was a bit of work above and beyond line art.

Why tell us all this Ready?!?!?! JUST GET ON WITH IT!!!!

Well, I am telling you because you need to know doing a lot of color sequences means the animation runtimes per month will probably drop a bit. I will do my DIZAMDEST to keep it high and bring in as much color as possible but it’s not impossible to see things like half or a quarter of the runtimes we get now. Just a forewarning.

Storylines/Characters outside the current GLab group

OK – this is another I was curious about and I think we can do something here as well. What this means (at least to me) is we put many of the current characters and settings on the backburner for a little bit to show some pure transformation fun. This would be something like “women growing in an elevator” or “women’s volleyball game goes crazy with growth” or even “birthday party for Joanna goes BIG” or something like that. These would be more like the very early animations I was doing where month to month it was  fun new sequence and a bunch of new people.

I mention things like ‘outside the GLab universe’ and I want to clear that up. What I am talking about is really ‘outside the current settings and characters’. In a sense all the stories are taking place in the Growth Lab Universe. We would just pull away from Luna and the gang for a little while. I still see them popping in from time to time and maybe even having a run or two so it’s not like they are gone. There would still be a sense of an overall movie (as much as I can pull a narrative together that is)

OK – quick summary

1. There is a plan to add color sequences to the monthly animations. Color takes more time to implement so the runtimes will likely drop but the production will go up. PERSONALLY, I think color sequences might be an amazing boost to the current work. I would love to see where this goes.

2. Storylines will be pulled away from the main characters we have been seeing to focus on new and different character and settings. There will still be TONS of great growth, BE and FMG but it will change up from the usual GLab crew (at least for a little bit). For me, this could be a nice change of pace and shake the status quo up.

3. All this will be done in stages and you will be asked to give feedback along the way. There is always the option to ‘revert’ to this current save point or even change things up further depending on how things are received. 

Now... please check out the poll options and vote for (you can vote for multiple things so be judicial). The idea is you are ranking your TENTATIVE APPROVAL for the above. No one’s feet will be put in the fire to explain themselves, everyone has the right to adjust and change their minds as results come in. I am only asking how you feel RIGHT NOW about the plan above. I will be dropping some color “tests” into the November animation regardless. Everything else will be implemented based of your interest or non-interest in the above.

Make sense? Comments or questions welcome! If you want to speak privately - message me! 

Thank you again for your support!

-Ready