Been struggling with chronic pain for a while. Finally went to the doctor for it and got some meds. They've been helping, but also giving me a new issue: they've been making me drowzy. So between work and sleeping almost all the time at home, progress has been real slow. But while progress has been slow, there is still progress. I've got the scene set up (mostly) and the splash screen made up for episode 1 and imported to blender. Next is to just work on actually animating. Hopefully that'll give me motivation to work on it more!

Getting much closer to the art style I've been wanting for this project.

Never messed with inverse kinematics before and it's kicking my ass. I'm slowly learning how to work with it, tho. The going is slow, but I'm still making progress.

OH YEAH! Amy's all done and I'm ready to start animating! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Got Amy done and rigged up! Just gonna animate a few textures and it'll be onto animating her trailer. Once that's done, work can finally start on episode 1 of the reboot! We're so back and ready to go!

Late update, but life has a way of keepin ya busy sometimes, ya know? In the meantime, I've gotten plenty done with my animations! I've refined Sonic's model and added some dynamic textures to his mesh. I wanted his eyes as textures. I got it. I wanted them animated. I got it. I wanted them to move dynamically around the mesh. I got it. I wanted eyelids as textures to overlay his eyes and also have them move and tilt dynamically. I got it. I wanted shading overtop of all of it. I got it. And the shader nodetree I made is a wide awake nightmare that nearly killed me trying to make it all work together the way I wanted. But I got it! I've also been busy on Amy's mesh as well. I feel like my techniques have gotten better since I've been learning Blender over the past year or so, but still novice stuff. Regardless, I've made plenty of progress on her model! Once I'm done with it, I'll move on to rigging her model for animation. Still plenty of work to do, and I'm not slowing down anytime soon!

So yeah, two weeks was definitely optimistic, but in that time, I've been busy making a font for my animations. I'm really diggin the radical 90's aesthetic it's got, but now I've gotta figure out how to ACTUALLY turn it into a font. Don't mind that the question mark is missing, though. We don't ask questions here. (I'll get around to it, eventually.)

Feel like I went a lil ham with the camera. In all the animations I've done, there's always been some sorta limitation, like it's an in-game camera, a static camera, or a 2D camera. Now that I have full control of the camera in blender, I feel like a baby elephant that just discovered its trunk. I'm swingin it around doin helicopters and shit. I know not how to wield the power I now possess.

I first started animating at the beginning of the school year in 2007, and my passion for it died after I graduated in 2009. My time as an animator lasted less than 2 years, and all my stuff was posted within 2008, so effectively, my series lasted less than a year, and yet 16 years later, I still find fans dedicating time and effort to this series I made so long ago. My passion for animation was reignited last year, and I've been slowly working on it ever since. It's been slow going, but what else can I do as one person doing all this in my spare time?

As of right now I'm still working on Sonic's trailer. His animation is all done for it, and right now, I'm working on building the scene. Once I'm done with that, I'm gonna animate the camera and then put together the trailer. Only then will I feel I've proven my resolve and motivation in reigniting my passion for animation enough to justify having a patreon. So be on the lookout for that. Maybe another week or two? We'll see. Plans are made to be broken, after all. Whatever happens, that fire's still in me, and I don't plan on letting it die again!