a couple of demo videos are attached to this post below, if they cannot be published, then in the comments or a separate message above. what do you think about this style? Is it better than it was or bring back a more classic 3d?
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done:

- the character model has been finalized (but we plan to improve something else later,
- created fat physics and muscle physics (we see minor flaws, we plan to improve next month)
- created /improved clothing with improved physics
- created materials for models in one room, tested the light, environment, etc.
- Optimization allowed us to achieve a rendering speed of 3 minutes per frame, which is very fast. Much faster than creating a similar animation. And this will allow you to make smooth video at 60 frames per second at 4k. However, perhaps 60 frames is redundant and 30 will be enough, then we will be able to render 2 times faster than now.
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What's left to do:
- It will take another 1-2 months to create the main character and her companion. And a few days to create two other piglets based on the one you see now.
- some time (I find it difficult to name at least approximate figures, maybe 1 week, maybe a month) to finalize the remaining rooms in the house.
- a week or a little more to create the surrounding space around the house and the facade of the house. There will be a sizeable location, so here I can be too optimistic about the amount of work, but it is unlikely that it will take more than two weeks for sure.
- If we are very, very lucky, we will make the first content in a couple of months. If the situation drags on, in two days. But it seems that in this style we have already passed all the "bottlenecks, pitfalls and hoes laid out in the grass." Now we have learned everything, and although all this is quite complicated stuff, it is already routine. Something that we have learned to do and even done several times.
- We have some ideas on how to improve the physics and we will try to improve the shader to make it look better, try to play with color correction and post-processing.
- there will be a question of voice acting. Probably at first this project will be silent, we just don't have that much free money to pay for English-speaking actors - and even in this one...an unusual topic (genre ;)). We plan to do this in a silent movie format - where the video will contain text inserts or dialogue titles. Or we will arrange it in the format of cartoon "balloons" with text, clouds.
- at the end of the project, if the financing allows and you wish to voice it all, we will look for actors, arrange a "casting" and show you the samples that we will be able to get. Then we will spend the amounts requested by the actors, get the voiceover and edit all the videos into the final big movie for you. This approach will also eliminate problems with "missing" actors. Once we were already burned by the fact that the person who voiced part of the video and received money for it simply disappeared from communication for unknown reasons. As a result, I had to voice everything all over again and it was a significant financial loss.
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And about finances.
There will be a lot of text now, and if you are too lazy or not interested in reading it, you can safely skip to the last paragraphs. Here I will explain in detail, and at the very end - a brief summary, conclusions.
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So, in detail:
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A lot of effort and time has already been invested in this project, much more than in creating 10-15 pages of hand-drawn drawings, which we could create during the months of pause that arose in preparation for a new project. Much, much more. 
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Therefore, we had two options for the development of events: 
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We cannot leave everything unchanged, firstly because of the dramatic increase in the amount of work that has already been invested in this project. Secondly, if we were moving within the framework of current financing, this would mean about 3-4 days of work per month on this project for one person. Approximately 6 months of preparation (we started preparing this much earlier than Pest Control ended) would have to be included in the "expenses" when calculating the amount of labor that would correspond to the financing here. That is, in the old concept of this club - to divide funding by the amount of work = to get a certain portion of content. It would take about 30-40 seconds of animation per month, which is clearly microscopically small, right?
And, as the experiment of previous years showed, noticeable growth is almost impossible in this business model.
And we want to make a good project with growth prospects. Which would allow us to increase the amount of content per month right now. And to significantly enhance the quality of the quality - all these things with fabric simulation, physics, muscles - everything that is done here under the carpet is quite complicated stuff. I'll show them a little later, in next month's report. 
To do this quickly, we need to attract more people to this team. And people need to be paid. We will pay them out of the income from another project and personal savings. But this is an investment. And you always want to get your investments back, right? 
Therefore, as we said earlier, we plan to return this account to our classic "blockchain art" model (aka "steam train"). 
In this classic model, each subscriber will start moving from the first pages or videos (In our case, of course, videos) and move to the last ones as the subscription is renewed. It usually costs $6-14 in our other projects, but then it was just pictures, and now it's videos. There is noticeably more fuss with the video at the stages of creating and designing the video, it is more difficult to make theft protection and everything else. But at the same time, the video has a much higher potential to attract new club members and strengthen the financing of the team. Therefore, in the hope of this, we plan to keep the prices as low as possible, but still a couple of drops higher than those mentioned - after all, it is significantly more expensive to store videos on the server. A video clip takes up space hundreds of times more than even a dozen pictures. 
Therefore, the prices for our content will probably be $10.13 and $15 per 1000 pixels of video, for 1920 video and 4k video. 
 This change + a change in the subscription model will allow the team to hope for potentially noticeable growth with the launch of advertising. And if everything goes as we hope, it will mean a noticeable increase in content for you. As a result, we hope to make more content for you. But there is a risk that we made a mistake with the assessment of the target audience and a number of factors. This will be seen after a few months of work and mass advertising. If the expected growth does not occur, we will have to consider our investments in launch and advertising as a direct loss, and limit the production of content to an amount adequate to the financing available at that time. But I think everything will be fine - there is a great demand for videos, because videos (and even with physics!) it allows you to convey a lot more nuances than even a lot of pictures ;)
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Now about the pleasant thing - about bonuses.
Many of you supported our previous project for many years, despite the fact that you could receive it for free (albeit in a reduced format). We appreciate this and, as we said earlier, we plan to thank you with bonuses proportional to your generosity. 
At first, we thought to make everything extremely simple and leave everyone the opportunity to receive content at the old prices. But after discussion, we came to the conclusion that there are a number of disadvantages: not all subscribers have been with us for many years, some generosity was measured in tens of dollars per month, while others spent $ 2 at that time, of which we received about a little more than a dollar.
Therefore, we decided to take a slightly more difficult, but fairer path.
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We offer various bonuses proportional to the generosity of our club members. 
If you have been with us for the last 5-6 years that the previous project was created, then you spent at least $ 2 per month. 
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Project start: April 2017 Project end: October 2023
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that is, it lasted - 8 months until the end of 2017 + 5 more years (2017+5=2022) + 10 more months from 2023. 
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total 8+(5*12)+10 = 78 months (wow, that's a long time!).
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78 times 1.5 dollars (that's how much we received out of every 2 dollars sent to us) and we get 78+39=117 dollars. 
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Let's make allowances for the fact that everyone has problems with the bank, finances and all this. Let's round it down to $100. 
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Let's consider this a starting point.
Take a look at your account, in the payment settings. There should be a figure that you have spent on a particular project. If you don't find her, then don't worry - we see her too. You don't have to waste time on this at all, if you're too lazy to deal with it, we'll do everything ourselves, at the time of launching this new project. 
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And now let's continue about the bonuses: for those people who have spent $100 or more on this project, we give a lifetime discount (but with a condition!) for access to a new project.
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The conditions are simple:
your payments must be continuous and in case of a pause for a period of 2+ months, you will lose this bonus forever. You will also lose it if you reduce the amount of payment relative to the figure you are spending now, all the months that were preparing for the launch of a new project.  
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Once again: If you reduce the payment amount or leave us for 2+ months, the bonus is canceled.
Of course, you can come back later and pick up where you left off - but only on general fares.  Therefore, just keep an eye on the subscription, or maintain the "reserve, deposit" that you have formed during these months of preparation. It will be credited to your account, of course. But we will try to catch up with this delay by creating more content than planned during the month. Thus, we hope to make up for this delay and "get out of debt" with these deposits ;) 
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At the minimum tariff that you will get access to (you spent the minimum possible amount, right? ;)  on this tariff, there will be a video in the format of 1000 pixels and FPS will probably be 30 (to reduce the size of the video and the cost of storing it). But for those who spent 2-3 dollars a month, this is actually a 70-80% discount that you can maintain for life. You're staying with us for now. 
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However, if you wish to upgrade to higher access levels (1920 or 4k video versions), the discount amount will be only 50%. It will also be lifelong, but one more condition will be added: a free transition to a higher level of access will be possible only at the beginning of the project. Then, if you want to switch to an even higher level of access, or reduce it, there will be complex nuances, which I will talk about later (this text is too huge without this information, yes)
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Those of you who spent more generous amounts and spent 200+ dollars in total: will have the opportunity to upgrade to the 1920 pixels tariff ($13). At the same price (no need to change any settings in the payment). The conditions are the same - do not skip 2 + months, do not reduce the amount of payment from the level at which it is now. If you want to switch to a higher tariff, it is free at the very beginning of the project, but the bonus will be only 50% of the price of the tariff of this access level. If the access level decreases later, the previously received content will no longer be available for recovery. Make sure you save everything if you want to lower the access level!
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And finally, our elite are people who liked our work so much that they didn't mind spending $5 or more (and there are those who spent $10 all this time!)
Such people, even if they were not present at the club throughout the entire project, but were there for more than a couple of years, spent about 300+ dollars.  And we have a special bonus for them: the maximum access level in the new project (for everyone else it will cost $ 15). This bonus is fireproof. You will be able to take a break as long as you wish and the bonus will not be canceled. It's for life. We appreciate your support especially much!
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Well, for those of you who came to us recently.
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And he has been patiently supporting our team for the last 6 months, until there was not a drop of new content. We also appreciate this trust, but some of these new subscribers clearly appeared only after we announced that we would not publish the last pages of the project for free (well, remember the whole murky story with blocking Deviantart of some vore projects?). At first, publications stopped for this reason, and then... we thought that firstly there is no point in continuing to advertise the completed project, and secondly - if none of the 16k viewers over the past 6 years has found the desire to support the team of this project, well.. they probably aren't that interested in this project as a whole, right? ;)
In general, some of our new subscribers are "forced" people in a sense. And some of them came from completely bad sites where people were running around with demo pictures, which we published in one of the recent reports. Nevertheless, we think it would be fair to thank them all in proportion to every cent they spent. But this bonus will be more modest.
More precisely, we will have two groups in this category. A group of those who came before the publication of the report with the first 3D models and information about the format change.
All these people who have shown quite high confidence in us will have the opportunity to choose any tariff that they want to receive in the future. It can be 10, 13 or 15 dollars (video content of 1000, 1920 or 3840 pixels, respectively). By choosing such a tariff, you will confirm that you are ready to stay on it for a long time. And then we will count the number of months that you supported us during the preparation. And we will give you as much content on this tariff as you supported our team here. That is, in fact, this bonus is a "discount on the payment of the number of months that you paid earlier."
This option is also available to people who came to us a little earlier and did not reach the cost of $ 100. All those months for which they have not received content yet - they will receive content in video format at the selected level. 
An important caveat: if you lower the level later, you will lose the ability to restore all previously received videos. Only what you save securely on your PC will be saved. But at the end of the project, all the content will be available again (but only at the level at which you will be at the time of completion of the project).
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Now about those who came in recent months, shortly after we published details about the new project:
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your bonus is more modest. You probably didn't read the ad before making the payment, many people asked questions about previous projects and the like... It's amazing how people don't like to read texts... (actually, we don't really like it either, ahahah... but fixed posts are definitely necessary to read)
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So: those who came quite recently, after the publication of reports with the first screenshots. You will have the opportunity to transfer all the amounts spent to the balance of the new tariffs. That is, if you spent $ 2, you can add another 8 and get a video on the 10 tariff. 
If you spent $ 10, you will immediately receive a video at the very first access level, but if you wish, you can add another $ 5 and get the maximum access level. 
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Not a cent was wasted, just a slight delay in receiving the content. But there will be no bonuses either, you came too late and clearly see the result this project is heading towards. therefore, all we can offer is to consider your payments upfront and provide the content as soon as it appears.
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if the amount spent in this account is 100+ dollars
, you have a bonus: access to the initial access level (video 1000 px, 24fps) in the new project, the opportunity to switch to higher tariffs with a 50% discount in them
The bonus will remain throughout the entire project and possibly in the future) provided that you do not leave subscribers for 2+ months.
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if the amount spent in this account is 200+ dollars
, you have a bonus: access to the average access level (1920 px, 60fps video) in a new project.  The opportunity to switch to a 4k tariff with a 50% discount in it.
The bonus will remain throughout the entire project and possibly in the future) provided that you do not leave subscribers for 2+ months.
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if the amount spent in this account is 300+ dollars
, you have a bonus: access to the average access level (4k video, 60fps) in a new project.  
The bonus will remain throughout the entire project and possibly in the future) no limit on the pause in the subscription. 
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PS. in case someone came up with the idea to urgently add the missing amounts up to $ 100 - this will no longer work, it will be considered an advance payment, nothing more. Sorry.
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for those who have never received content here, there are also bonuses:
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you will receive content for each month if you arrived before the announcement of details, the publication of reports with screenshots of the new project and the announcement that it will be a video.
Every month that you have paid, you will receive at the rate that you choose yourself.  
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After we send you all the months of content that you have paid for, the bonus will end and you will have to spend the full subscription amount on the selected access level.  It can be 10, 13 or 15 dollars for a video in the format of 1000, 1920 or 3840 pixels. 
If, after the end of the bonus period, you wish to reduce the access level, this will create unnecessary fuss and confusion in our accounting department. Therefore, there is a small "tricky" condition, an important nuance: 
- if the access level decreases, after you receive bonus months at a higher level, you will have to spend the difference in the subscription amount between the tariff you were on and the tariff you decide to go down later. I will tell you about this later, so as not to stretch this already huge text. 
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And finally, for those who came to us quite recently, after the publication of reports on the progress of work on a new project, there will be no bonuses. But your money, which you have already spent here, will not be wasted. By launching a new project, we will calculate how much you have spent here and when you choose a particular tariff, we will transfer this amount there and extend your subscription in proportion to this amount. If it's not enough, you can add a few more dollars and it will work perfectly. For example, if you spent $5 now and spent another 5 in the new month a couple of days later... that's $10 in total. It is enough to get the first video at a rate of $ 10, 1000 pixels. Or, if you add $ 3 to this amount, you can get a video in the size of 1920 pixels. And if you add 5 dollars, then the video is in 4k!
As a result, you will receive exactly as much content as you pay for. You won't lose anything, but you won't gain any bonuses either.
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And the last thing for today (from this place again a long text, yes. But give him a couple of minutes, it's important):
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Unfortunately, 3D animation is a thing that is difficult to calculate accurately. If the character is sitting and just turning his head, it's very easy to do, it takes minutes. If a character eats or makes faces with complex facial expressions, it is more difficult and will take much longer. After all, the animation will involve a lot of elements: cheeks, lips, eyes, eyelids, ears, jaws, tongue. Moreover, it takes more time to set up 2 elements that interact with each other than to set up one element that does not interact with anything and the second element that also does not interact with anything. The more elements involved in the character's movement, the more difficult it is to do it beautifully. One minute of animation in the studios costs from (I emphasize - from! 3 thousand dollars. We undertake to do this work much cheaper, the current financing is about 200+ dollars ;) We will be making more content in the hope of rapid growth. But if this growth is not rapid and noticeable, well, we will have to reduce the amount of labor in proportion to funding. 
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But let's continue: 
If the character is walking, it will be even more difficult to do and will take longer. This will require not just moving the 32 bones in his body, but checking what happened - whether it looks good, making adjustments to many of these 32 bones, checking what happened again. All this is a rather complicated, painstaking process that requires a lot of patience.
If the character is fighting a predator, it can take a very long time, if you want good bright scenes with all the details, and not a set of simplifications and "cheats" how to avoid difficult moments for animation. I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about. 
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We have been thinking for a long time about how to calculate our work that we have to do within a month. But unfortunately, nothing but the "approximate number of hours" came to mind. of course, as usual, we always do - we will try to make at least a little more content than the available funding. In our philosophy, it is better to do a little more work than a little less - for inner peace.
But you have to be prepared for the fact that in some months we will have 4-5, maybe even 10 minutes of video. And in some cases - a minute or a little more. Everything will depend on how many characters are in the frame, how complex the movements they make.
In some cases, we could sacrifice quality by creating simplified scenes, quick camera changes, etc., which would allow us to make more "minutes", but they would be less interesting than they could be - if we did not have a standard "in minutes".
I suppose most of you have known me for many years and you know that I have never allowed myself to be careless about my work. I always try to do as well and efficiently as my current skills allow. I always try to improve these skills wherever I can. And to involve people in the team whose skills are comparable or better than mine. I believe I can count on your sufficient confidence in this matter. In fact, your high level of trust and financial support during these months of preparation already speak for themselves. And we will try to justify this trust by 200%. With the transition to 3D, a new horizon of possibilities opens up in our artel. Lots and lots of new stories. Fast - not delayed for many years, as was the case with the previous experiment (Pest control). 
We will make a cool project for you! 
And there are many other projects, each of which will be better than the previous one. We are one step away from the start! 
Next month I will prepare another report and it will contain more interesting things. 
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And in a few days we will start voting. Some members of the club were clearly disappointed with the idea that there would be a feral predator in the plot. I didn't think about it earlier, and I think we need to hold a vote among you before we make a predator. Or we will make two versions of this project - in one there will be a two-legged anti-predator, in the other - a feral. It will be easier for us to make the two-legged version (we have never done feral before), but this plot would have to be seriously changed for a new version, discarding some interesting and bright moments that would be possible only in the feral version. For this reason, we were going to make the plot in its original form - with the predator feral. A cougar. But if you all vote against this option, well, we'll make an anthro option.Although this will require you to throw out a lot of funny moments from the plot and make it less vivid. I hope most of you will believe me in this matter and the option with feral will remain. But if this happens, for those of you who have been waiting for the anthro predator here, we will offer excellent compensation, the opportunity to receive a proportional amount in our other projects or "both options" (one to choose from). Or any other ideas. I don't want anyone to be disappointed.