A new month comes new things, so let's talk updates briefly before talking about the Raffle Winners.

First is to re-iterate the DIscord server since I've been fairly consistent with posting daily updates there for a Dehya and Lumine animation. I usually work between 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST and occasionally live stream any progress in the server.

Now as I haven't posted anything on Patreon about the animation prior it goes without say that I've been struggling with it. Part of that was because I had caught the Flue Type A and was completely bedridden for nearly a week which put a huge delay on my work. This delay is creating a backlog of requests that I have failed to fulfill in a timely manner.

With the backlog that I'm looking at I've come to realize that I have been failing to meet my own expectations, so I'm going to put a pause on the Raffle starting next month until I've completed every single request.

After that I'm going to try and re-evaluate the things I can realistically promise. 60s of animation is just too much to handle with my general inexperience, so I have to make compromises on that. I can either lower my standards of quality and focus on the quantity or I have to lower the amount of animation promised to focus on quality.

When I first started I had a goal to make something every single day, and I met that goal. That's why I used to post sets of 4 renders on Twitter every week. Quantity was so much more important to me than quality because I felt that the only way to get better was to just make something, even if it might be bad. I'm not sure I should go back to that.

I feel as though I am obligated to try and make the best I can for the people that request me to make stuff for them. I don't want to set a hard deadline and just drop the pen the second the clock hits 12, but it almost feels like I might have to do that.

Anyhow, with all of that being said here are the Raffle Winners for the month. Thank you for all supporting me <3

1. Fire

2. GemElement

3. N/A

4. N/A

5. N/A

1. ThatGuyYouKnow

2. Daniel Berzoi

3. N/A

Here's a really big render for GemElement! I modeled and designed the ribbons for the Hound in this and it took quite a long time to make it, but it was really nice going back to my roots with it. My original intention when I picked up Blender was to design and make outfits after all.

As much as I liked doing this though it took about 16 hours to model and rig the outfit. Considering the outfit was mainly just ribbons the whole thing is more on the simple side. With that in mind, I probably won't be able to do things like this with any consistency since anything more complex is guaranteed to take longer. At the very least I do hope this serves as a good milestone to show how I've improved.

A big thing I've been thinking about after all this is how reclusive I am when working on requests. How would ya'll feel about a Patreon/Substar discord for daily progress?