gofile - https://gofile.io/d/Te1gykc4

The results are in, and it's kind of a bloodbath.

It's easy enough to assume Raven is just that popular, but I do think the essentially rule 63 Sephiroth and very different looking Honoka played more of a part than 'raw character choice'. And this is the closest thing to an actual Shanoa at the moment, so you know. Some contributing factors, I assume. Still, this isn't gonna be a Raven only release. I am still gonna do some Commander and Honoka, this is just gonna be a 'Raven gets more' sort of thing.

Anyways, poll aside, let's talk about the upcoming stuff besides the poll... well, there isn't anything. While I am very much better and am more or less back to my usual self, I do have moments where things are not so good, so I'm avoiding throwing myself into any one thing. My main goal right now is to just do some small stuffs and then hopefully have something decent for Christmas. I did have a lot of grandiose ideas for Christmas, but not sure how it'll go for now. I'm considering reserving my bigger ideas for the future. My '10th Anniversary' is coming up, and since my 5th was huge, might as well make my 10th even huger, right? But I still want to do something nice for Christmas, so I'll be seeing what I feel like and am up to doing at this point. I have been toying around with various characters/ideas, but haven't really had anything 'spark' just yet. I have been doing some animating still, but just hopping all around the place. I was also trying to come up with a PFP/Banner, but still haven't settled on anything I really like, so have some of the stuff I've done.

Anyway, I'll hopefully figure things out at some point and settle on something. For now, things will be a bit 'light' until Christmas. But I'll hopefully have some fun Christmas stuff to go soon enough. Until then.

Hey. It's been a week, and I'm doing a lot better. Still have some lingering symptoms here and there, but overall I'm like 60-70% there. Actually feel well enough that I have been poking around in Blender, but haven't really committed to anything nor have I started on anything. My goal is to continue just taking it easy, since I don't want to rebound or anything like that. Just gonna let the animations and what not come as they come, instead of just throwing myself into anything just yet. It'll give me time to properly recover, and hopefully come up with stuff I want to do naturally. Which reminds me, I will be working on the Yuffie/Yuna/Lightning stuff soon. And I'll probably have a Halloween poll with it, though whether they get released in time is another story. Not gonna rush into Halloween and the like, but I'll see if I can do anything. No promises, though.

Anyway, like last time, have some additional animations. https://gofile.io/d/4un6Yepq I've honestly got even more in reserve, but you know. Maybe I'll finish some of them up and make them the upcoming releases, but we'll see. Gotta figure out what I wanna do in the near future, and then hopefully figure things out for Christmas or something. But yeah, until next time. Which will hopefully be the poll.

So, figured I'd drop an update. I have been wrestling with a sinus infection for the past week. Been a constant bout of extreme pain in the face. Might be one of the worst sicks I've ever experienced, since I've always hated sinus headaches, so having one almost constantly for 7+ days has been rough. I'm doing better overall now, but after this long, I am tired and exhausted even if not in as much pain as before. I wanted to take a break just to chill, not really to be knocked out like this, but c'est la vie. This is actually the first time I've gotten proper sick since I started posting my stuff. I did get a cold earlier in the year, but it was minor compared to this sinus infection, since I was still able to animate through it. This one, I have had a very unproductive time, been mostly in bed with a cloth over my face, popping various pain killers and decongestants and what not. Probably would have been a good time to do some renderings in the background, but let's just say I was no in the mind to do such things.

Now, for the big elephant in the room: since I am still recovering and barely in the mood to be writing in the first place, let's talk about what's to come. I kinda have no idea what I'm going to do or what will come of my ideas and all that, since I am still in no mood to really Blend. Gonna get to the poll animations ASAP, but beyond that - for my Halloween/October stuff, no clue. Might push things into November, depending, but I might not get to anything in particular and just pivot to whatever I feel like doing with no real set theme/idea/etc. Not exactly ideal, but gotta look out for my health and all that.

Anyway, since I won't have anything new for a while, I'll just drop a small little 'teaser' of stuff I've done here and there that have yet to lead to anything being finished, but are 'finished' in the sense of being fully animated. Mostly Trails stuff, but you know. https://gofile.io/d/bcS9nLKO

Back to resting it is for me. I'll hopefully be back in action soon. 

gofile (Brigitta - Metaphor: ReFantazio) - https://gofile.io/d/YIcf9qC3
gofile (Hifumi Togo - Persona 5) - https://gofile.io/d/vIzTgghH
gofile (Orihime Inoue - Bleach) - https://gofile.io/d/qO3Kh2ME
gofile (Full Folder) - https://gofile.io/d/Ar1OlbZx

And the two final characters I never revealed. Brigitta from Metaphor, and Orihime from Bleach. Brigitta actually 'double duties', since a while back I actually made a 'realistic' version of her, and so I decided 'why not' and made both versions. Bit annoying to do, since the rigs are totally different and I can't just 'copy-paste' between them. But I managed. As for Orihime, been meaning to do some Bleach for a while. Funnily enough, I planned her before that recent episode. But overall, decent timing I'd say.

Anyway, with that, we've got the end of this little summer adventure. Definitely took more out of me than I expected. Beyond the tiredness and what not, I have been feeling really poorly the past few days, so I'm gonna take a full, official break for a week or two. Think I need it. I'll probably do nude alts eventually, but please understand that I'm not at 100%(probably more like 50%), so it'll be a 'when I can and feel like it' sort of situation.