So PL episode 4 has been out for a week now. If you haven’t watched it, treat yourself. Go and grab a bowl of popcorn and watch this thing. Lot’s of work put into it.

For those of you who have watched it, you might ask what is next. What is next is a bit of a surprise, but I am taking Christmas to just chill out. Then in January I am picking up a solid and consistent part time job since I need money and unfortunately, PL Episode 4 has only made me 2 and a half bucks so far. That being said, it is constant income that hopefully will pay off long term.
In other words once I get working again, I am taking a new approach to how I am making this series. It will go more like this.
I write the script, I let people check it and I go through a stage of correction and altering. While they’re doing that, I will work on various assets that will be needed to efficiently get through the next stages without any halt in progress. After that I will go into the process of preparation which will also weave into animation. Except I will not be working on animation immediately. I will send out projects as I make them so people who are helping out with animation can get to working on things faster and have tons of time to get things right before I start steamrolling through things. I will prepare projects first, then these projects will all be animated when they are prepared. And because the whole animation is prepared, I can gauge where I am at in progress more effectively. Of course, once animation is done, I will render the final bits. After that, the final stage is post production. None of these will be overlapping each other anymore. I will get set on doing one thing at a time. This won’t be as overbearing for me and likely will just be more efficient.

With this next project, I intend to iron out a few things in terms of design. I want to fix a number of things on the base to run out a final base that I will work with for the rest of the series. I also want to remake a couple of things which includes a remake of the Attachment pack pretty much. Which won’t just be remakes but some additions as well.

In the near future I plan to do less for really filler content. I won’t try so hard to get something out each week and will be more focused on putting out higher quality content rather than a chunk of little sneak peaks. I will still do a teaser on my next project once I get that rolling.

Once the sprite update releases, I will get working again as well as any animation of mine from now on will be at 4K resolution. If it is a sneak peak or a trailer, it will not be 4K though. I will also be doing all sound work on my PC since I find that way easier and less restrictive.

Going forward, I got plenty to do, but at least now I have my footing. Episode 4 broke me into bringing in other peoples help so everything should be more efficient from start to finish on the next project. To put into perspective. I had the final 10 minutes of this episode done within a month.
That being said it was with a schedule of working day an night on the project. The final part of episode 4 was also insanely intense in the action and visuals and everything and I was burnt out. Now that I am on a fresh start moving forward, I am positive I can get a lot more done in shorter amounts of time.
Lastly. Thank you for all the comments, them be critical, positive or just basic conversation on what is going on in the series where people are pointing out the countless details, making jokes and memes, discussing the story, talking about the characters. As much as I hope for this series to make me money, it takes the support from all of you people to push me to seeing the worth in it. It’s not the money I hope to make off of the passion project that pushes me to do better, it is seeing people be entertained and inspired to do more with this application.
Past year has been really rough for me on a motivation standpoint with people out there insulting me, claiming my content doesn’t improve at all and hasn’t improved, putting their political fanaticism ahead of the value of friendship, actively twisting and distorting decisions I make into horrible things that I have done in what I can only assume is attempts to cancel and drive me through the mud because I ended up making someone mad over something petty. This month is a high point for me and each and every comment on my work only amplifies that and makes me excited to do more. Thank you once again for supporting me and continuing to support me.
Now, Merry Christmas. Enjoy the best of what this season has to offer cause I have and it has been a real boost to my mood. I hope to soon have some new stuff to share with you and I will see if I got some assets to post on the site soon. Been a while since I have posted something.