Merry Christmas all. Hope you enjoy the day.

    And here we are, once again nearing the end of 'my' year; December 25th is my personal yearly anniversary for releases, for those who don't know. As usual, I sit and think I've released nearly nothing, only to find out once I start sorting everything for the Yearly Review video that I've made, on average, an animation every month or more. No, they're not giant Valentine's Day releases, but they're something decent.

    Christmas 2025 is ready to go. Just needs the 25th to come along. That being said, Christmas falls on a Thursday. Assume the Weekly for next week to be canceled. I like to release on Saturdays, but not holiday date specifics. January 3rd, 2026, will be the release of Year 4. Probably gonna reuse music for it. I've found it a bit harder lately to find music I like for Black Menageries, so I certainly don't wanna waste the use of one on a recap video.

    Looking ahead some to 2026, an obvious 'need to do' is finish the Black Cat animation. It hit some major hangups and completely got sidelined, but I've not forgotten it. I also have an animation to sort and make for Eva from MGS, since she won that recent poll. I also had been pranking with a Farah Karim from Call of Duty idea. I've wanted to use her for some time now. The preview pics this week are of a possible intro/trailer animation like how Valentine's Day had. Farah Karim finds herself being transported to who knows where in an uncomfortable way. Hope the road isn't bumpy.

    Other than those, and a possible couple I probably have forgotten about, 2026 is wide open for ideas. Where will the year take us? HIT THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE TO FIND OUT!

    Sorry. Had to be all 'YouTuber' for a second. That shit always annoys me.

    Only thing that's gone on this week is Christmas 2025 rendering/compiling. Good news is it's finished and waiting for release.

    I don't recall what got me to think of it, but I thought at some point it might be fun to add a 3rd segment to the Violet Parr Christmas Present animation from last year so, Helen Parr got in on the fun as well. Yeah, the fire effect still went crazy again. I think it's because the animation was created on a 30fps session and the video is 24fps (standard movie speed). No sound to it, since the other 2 sections didn't either.

    Christmas 2025 - Frozen - Anna/Elsa is fully rendered and being compiled in Vegas. I'm pretty happy with it. I ended up doing an interesting effect about midway through it that came out spiffy. I wanna do more of that later on; especially for another Black Menagerie Club animation. Unless, of course, it's overly hated. We'll see.

    Poll Results have Eva - Metal Gear won in a pretty hefty landslide. I'll start getting her scene built soonish. Christmas 2025 and the Year 4 are the current focuses.

    Enjoy Violet.

    About a fourth of Christmas 2025 is rendered. I'm a bit excited to release this year's Christmas. I think you all are really gonna like it. It had its snags, yeah, it had its setbacks, sure, and some parts I had to just GRRRRRR my way through them, but it's come out pretty good. if it's not good, I will dock my QA's pay. I just have to remember to start paying them something first so I can.

    The 'who to use first' poll is halfway over and it's a pretty good clue who's gonna win it. I don't know either character or game franchise, so I had no idea who would be considered the more popular one. Personally, I like the Isabela character a bit more, but I do like Eva a lot as well; I have them both now too. I'll start setting up the scene for it soon. The previous potential with Farah Karim is being kept but not progressing for now. As I said, it was an idea, not a certainty.

    No, I've not forgotten about Black Cat. It chugs a long, very, very slowly.

    In the word of Shang Tsung from the Mortal Kombat movie, "It has begun." Christmas 2025 is being rendered. Each section gets checked to be sure it's how it should be and kept if correct; fixed and re-rendered if not. I got pretty concerned if I was going to have to completely scrap the project and start over a couple of times, but it finally decided to work with me after a great start and it finished relatively easy.

    I spent the time not being able to do much (cause rendering takes pretty much all the pc power) sorting what to work on. I started a project with Farah Karim that has a lot of potential and promise; an intro to a full animation. I'm not going to show it off at all til I know it's going to become something, but I've been wanting to do something with her for a while, so I hope it keeps going well.

    My favorite model maker is having a Black Friday Sale and I hope to snag several models from them. I 100% will be getting Isabela Keyes (#1) from Dead Rising and Eva (#2) from Metal Gear Solid. As a poll, I'd like to know which character you all would like to see something, whether big or small, first.