So, the poll results on the latest upped graphic settings are finished and it looks like I'll be saving the superous colossalistic massively big render settings just for the really good shit, cause yeah, that took way to long to render Black Cat Cafe. What projects fall under that category? Ones I think deserve that kind of extra bump and have the time to render for it.

    So I spent this week recouping from the "Render Blues" and sorting out things. Tossed several saves that were never going to go anywhere or never started to begin with. (I had several named saves that had nothing more than the girl to be used standing in the spawn pose. That's it.) Renamed a lot of saves for better organization. Stuff like that.

    Came across a Touhou Project practice animation that's nice. I like it a lot. They animate really well and I've wanted to use them again, so I'm going to continue on with it and make it a full thing. (Full as in a release, not necessarily a 10+ minute animation.) Same two girls as a previous one, who's names are uh....Yamashiro Takane and Kawashiro Nitori. I've no idea which is which; I know nothing about that game. Henceforth to be referred to by hair color. Or eye color since I just noticed it's the same as the hair.

    Anyways.

    In other news, Halloween 2026 might not get the second song added to it. It's a full length animation as is. Discord stream reactions would suggest it's a really good animation. It'll depend on how things progress from now til time to get rendering.

    Sancus 3 is already on pause. It started out so shitty I lost all drive to go go with it. I've been sorting a different introduction to the OC Zjai, since I really wanted her out and about sooner.

    Lastly, Christmas 2026 is moving a long nicely. Marie Rose is having fun. I think. Probably not.

    Marie Rose is still 'employed' with Swelterly's Sweets. She's no longer in the Glaze Extraction department. Moved on to advertisements.
    Not an animation, just a couple ad pics for Swelterly's Sweets. The left pic is without Ambient Occlusion shadows and the right pic is with. I could still squeak out a loop with her, if the interest is high. Nothing fancy. Kinda like the last couple of I've done.

    Protect and Service - Fallout - Lucy MacLean is the only thing else being worked on. Got a little lost for various segments, but it's on track again. Hoping for a release around the end of the month; maybe the weekend before my birthday, but I have an idea for an extra animation for it, so maybe not. We'll see. Also depends on part of the poll below.

    There is a poll at the bottom of this. Anyone can vote, but votes are weighted by tiers (higher tier votes count for more) and you can vote on more than one thing, since it's a double.

The options are:

    -Do you want me to animate this Marie Rose setting or move on? It'll be a small loop, nothing major. A quick and dirty kind. It also won't be finished for Easter, since the poll literally runs til next weekend, which is past the holiday, but still. Top 2 poll options.

    -And since I was thinking of no longer using Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10, Marie Rose is the #1 replacement character in my head, but maybe you all would rather I stick with Gwen. So the second part is Marie or Gwen moving forward. Gwen has been my kind of unofficial go-to girl for a long time now, so maybe it's time to change that. Bottom 2 poll options.

    Remember, you can vote on them all, but don't be goofy and click all 4. Kills the point. Feel free to comment about reasons to use/not use Gwen and/or Marie or even suggest another character I have or might have.

    Happy Easter

    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.

    Here we are, once more.
    At times it gets difficult to add visual elements to a Weekly. I want to keep aspects of projects secret for as long as possible, so after a bit there's little to show. On that note, I'm not sure how much more of Christmas 2025 I can show of til the release.
    Some of you are probably happy with that. It's not anywhere near Christmas, after all, but it is a major part of my weekly workings right now.
    Anyways.
    Christmas 2025 had hit a pretty hard wall with the 'how do I support the character' themes. Thanks to my Quality Assurance Team (a single person, granted, but they do so much to help it's crazy, so quick shoutout to Eidolon), things are not only back on track but going in a very nice direction. I'm able to improve on my overall animation skills again as well as adding in new things I've never managed before. A couple of previews of Christmas 2025 below. Anna inspecting her Ramma'Jam and a legs/hips angle. Still a bit rough for overall quality, but that'll come last. Have to get it all going first.

    In other news, since I did the Gadget from Rescue Rangers in Mouse Cleaning I asked on Discord what people's opinions on the possible creation of animations, big or small, with characters like Lola Bunny (pic of model below). Well, not gonna happen, according to the reactions, which is fine. I'm mostly curious to know and I don't have anything specific planned or anything. I'm adding a poll on here too, just in case. Votes are weighted more to higher tiers on this one. Don't worry though; this isn't a 'should I change focus/style' poll. Just like the April Fools with Ben/Gwen wasn't gonna change focus either. Just checking all options for future ideas.
 
    The preview pic of the garden looking scene with big windows is a scene build for a possible Mirable Garlick animation. I've poked at the animation concepts for it a couple times, but nothing is catching hold really, so it's not a thing yet. Still thought I'd show it off like some other scene builds before.

    Lastly, the little video of a butt is Nico Robin from One Piece. I had the model awhile and wanted to just practice a little, so tested it doing that. Figured people would like it. I'd posted it on X earlier this week as well.