Update: May 21st, 2018

My boiiiiiiiiiis!!!!!

It has been a very informative week.

INFORMATION THE FIRST!!!
It has come to my attention that some viewers wish to know some of the specifics regarding our progress.
I'm rounding the half way point with MHAA. I've been doing a lot of things out of chronical order so it's very much like a puzzle.
I'm currently laying down footage and lines for scene 5 out of 8. Still a ways away, those last couple of scenes are loooooooooooong. I'm still very much in training, got some photoshop and affer effects work that I need Izzy help on. The help of Izzy. Help that only Izzy can give, you see.
Speaking of, Izzy has spent most of the week altering SAO footage.
Since you guys want more details here's some bullet points of the work he puts in:  

TLDR: There are 4 shots in the scene that are unaltered by Izzy. 

For wide shot of the whole lobby

-Took a still frame of the shot I needed, which didn't last long enough and couldn't be looped due to the moving elements. -Took the still frame into Photoshop and painted out the moving elements. -Took the painted frame into After Effects and recreated the spinning rings/moving lines, accounting for matched colours, 3D space and perspective, and masking when they went behind Kirito. -For the pulsing boxes, I took still frames of them at their brightest and dimmest and cross-faded between them, making sure to stagger the animation to match the original footage.

Kirito Typing  -Took still frames of Kirito in order to draw new facial expressions in Photoshop. -Painted Kirito out of the shot and repainted the missing background elements in order to get a clean shot of the moving background to use with various shots. -Took the shot of Kirito typing his name into After Effects in order to rotoscope him out of the background frame by frame. -Combined the rotoed Kirito, the newly drawn faces, and the clean background to make one shot look like several. -Used the same process of crossfading the background to get the pulsing light effect.

Suguha  -Drew new mouths for her in the wide and close-up shots. -Used After Effects to motion track the mouths and have them follow the camera movements.


INFORMATION THE SECOND:
I heard that some fuckin Schmucks took it upon themselves to write last week's update.
HOW. FUCKIN'. DARE. YOU.
I did not approve of any of the things you said and an assassin is on his way to your home.
...
What do you mean "It was an empty threat"? That's some bullshit Izzy, you told me he'd dancing with satan by the week's end. What do you mean that's just his Saturday? Whatever, let's just fire him.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN "NO"?  You'll be hearing from my assassin.

INFORMATION THE THIRD:
I recently found that my mum sometimes reads these things so NO ONE TELL HER ANYTHING!
Hi, mum. How ya been? I've been good. Canada's nice. Mack, Izzy, Aaron and Logan are all super nice. I'm definetely maintaining a healthy diet and not living off of pizza and soda like you feared.

Anyhoo,
Like always, love and kisses,
Carrie.
Yes. Love and kisses... and nothing else.