Regarding last month's delay
Added 2024-04-03 17:12:39 +0000 UTChello!
I'm sorry that I didn't post a notification about this new delay this month (most of you don't see this delay because you haven't reached the last pages, but our oldest club members see this delay).
I thought the situation would be resolved in the next day or two, but it dragged on for four weeks.
At the beginning of the month, my tablet broke down and there was no decent replacement in my country. Only small tablets, which are much worse and it is simply impossible to work normally and productively on them.
I ordered a new tablet from an online store, they promised that it would arrive within 2 weeks with urgent delivery. But customs threw up a surprise and pecked at my brain for two more weeks. It seemed like it was all going to end "the next day," but every time they delayed answering and demanded a bunch of stupid documents. Then, when the situation was resolved, the tablet finally went to my city from the capital. Today he came to the post office and I just have to pick him up.
I'll be back to work tomorrow. Immediately after the renewal of all subscriptions is completed today and partially tomorrow.
But the time that passed was not in vain - we used it to work with 3d. We improved some locations, and also significantly updated 3d "dolls" - character models that we use to pose and foreshorten instead of sketches. It used to be pretty sloppy and you had to put more effort into making pretty shapes and good detail every time. Now it's close to ideal and there are some significant improvements in the newest pages (those of you who see the last pages will see it right away, the rest will see it a little later).
Also, after a series of updates, we will devote a few more days to make a demo with 3d animation for you (it may take a while - we are too behind schedule to spend a lot of time on this. But we have made the characters so detailed that "a couple more steps" for the design and it can become a full-fledged 3D. And if you add a muscle system, you get a very cool 3D model, I suppose. In other projects of our artel, there is a great advance in technological terms. And we will be able to apply these skills here.
Comments
Yes, I apologize for the long silence, in the next 24 hours I will publish a detailed report on the situation here and show what we have been doing all this time. We're almost done, although it took a lot longer than we thought it would take.
CATastrophe
2024-07-04 00:57:32 +0000 UTCAny news? This is getting lonesome.
Xri
2024-07-03 13:44:15 +0000 UTChi. I'll send you a draft of the message that I was going to publish, but I've been putting it off for the last couple of weeks. I still hope to attach to it a very visual interesting video of what has changed and how it will look. Describing something in text is not always as good as showing it. And only a delay in this task causes a delay in this publication. I'm sorry, my traditional problem is that time flies too fast when you work in sleep-work-sleep mode. about a year or a year and a half ago, our funding started to drop. As a result, there was no longer enough money to maintain the team in full. and several people left us, moving to another project. The rest divided their part of the work among themselves and this caused a great overload and a huge imbalance in the field of "work /life". For some time we moved at the same pace, trying to maintain the stated 50 characters per month and even made more characters in most months, however, fatigue accumulated, previously accumulated delays could not be made up for during the year and any event that broke the schedule remained a new delay that we simply could not remove. When my tablet broke down - while I was waiting for a new one, I decided not to waste this month and started optimizing all the character models in order to work with them faster in the future. We have approached the process fundamentally and these are really huge changes that will make working in the same style 70% simpler and faster, which I hope will make up for the delays accumulated over the years of working with this project. And even if you do a little more work, they will allow you to turn this project into a full-fledged video, into animation. We completed about 60% of the way in that month and hoped to complete the remaining 40% in a couple of weeks in May, but as often happens, the very last piece of work turned out to be more difficult than we thought. This has been delayed and we are only completing it now. We are very close to the finish line of the new technology and hoped to complete it "from day one", but all sorts of unforeseen errors and problems constantly arose, the solution of which ate up a day, two, three... Time flew by too fast. But we're almost done. About a week or two and the updates will resume (well, there may be a slight delay, I'm already afraid to make predictions). The character design will be noticeably improved - we made a lot of mistakes at the beginning of the project and every year these mistakes became more annoying for us. We came to the conclusion that we want to improve the entire project - so that all its pages are equally good and in the same style. But after the reduction in funding, it was not possible to reduce delays. And the only way to do all this is to improve the technology and optimize all processes. Soon we will show all the details and give a detailed account of what we did and how we did it. I wanted to add a video demo to this post, so I kept postponing this post, but yes, time flew by. My eternal problem is that I apparently perceive it differently from most people, whose life schedule is divided into clear sleep, work and rest times. Over the past few years, I have dug myself into a very deep rut from which I have just begun to get out. In any case (I'll remind you for the hundredth time, probably), every paid month will be filled with content, don't worry about it.
CATastrophe
2024-06-03 05:58:10 +0000 UTCIt's closing in on 3 months with no update. I don't feel like I should have to keep paying for nothing. I know you've got some issues, but most creators pause charges when that's the case. What happens if I cancel and resubscribe? Your paymens system is so complicated that I am loathe to try to figure it out for myself.
Chris
2024-06-02 23:11:40 +0000 UTCYes, there have been no updates yet. In the month when I was left without a tablet, I decided to spend time usefully and started reworking and improving 3D models, which we use to speed up the work of this project. But it took longer than I hoped it would. And since this will seriously simplify the work and improve the quality of the comic, I tried very hard to finish this before resuming the production of content. And for the last 3 weeks it dragged on with a feeling of "we're about to finish, another day or two and we'll definitely finish", but every now and then a mistake or problem came out that needs to be fixed now, spending another day so as not to suffer with this problem for many more months. We're almost done, one of these days I'll show you what came out and we'll resume producing content at a faster pace.
CATastrophe
2024-05-16 16:29:24 +0000 UTCWhat's the latest page. posted? For me it's still 1257
Shryke
2024-05-16 16:08:32 +0000 UTChi. thanks for the message, I will check the situation in the next few hours
CATastrophe
2024-04-20 13:24:52 +0000 UTCJust curious. Having saved a batch of pages today, i noticed page 1248 was added twice in two versions, while page 1249 appeared to be missing. Is the dual version of page 1248 supposed to be considered page 1248 and 1249 or has there been a slight mixup/delay?
Mr Stealth
2024-04-20 10:03:51 +0000 UTC
