Hello! Welcome to all the new and returning subs.
To start things off, the Bocchi Project was a huge success! Thank you all so much for your patience and interest in our production!
With that in mind, I would like to address the many issues that occurred during the project's production for those that are interested. For starters, the delays were pretty bad. A big part of it was definitely underestimating how long certain shots were going to take. Like for example that shot with Bocchi playing the guitar for a few seconds, that definitely took unexpectedly long. Its hard to guess how long certain things are going to take because there's so many factors to consider. I can see now why so many shows and games get delayed numerous times. But with that in mind I will try to be better about the estimates, adding more time than I believe we'd realistically need to finish.
Another issue that was brought to my attention was the ratio of sfw and nsfw content. If you watch the full Bocchi project, there is a pretty long run time for the sfw content vs the nsfw content not having as long of a run time. This was actually not intended, and I would say was likely a failure in part of the storyboard/plan. The storyboard and animatic of the project at the time seemed to have a relatively even amount of screen time for both sides, not including credits. But after we added the voice acting it definitely made the sfw side of things wayyy longer than expected. This was our first time doing a project with this much dialogue, and we'll be more careful from here on out with how much runtime they add to a scene. We apologize for that mismanagement if it may have effected your enjoyment of the content. We aim to do something similar to a 50/50 ratio of nsfw and sfw content (not including credits). Believe it or not, there are people in the team that really enjoy the nsfw content so they are vouching for you guys during our meetings. And I did think about adding more nsfw loops when the issue was more apparent, but the project was already taking so long, we really didn't want to add more work on our plate.
Another factor is that some of the artists I hire actually don't really want to do any nsfw work or just would rather not do any nsfw work of cute and funny characters. The ones that are ok with doing any of the nsfw work either have other responsibilities in the project or are just not that well equipped towards animation in an anime style so it does leave me in a bit of tough spot. We're always looking for skilled artists and animators that are willing to work with us, but it can be hard to find. Some really good and based animators I've met might prefer to do their own thing instead, there are language barriers, or some other very obscure issue which for some reason tends to happen.
With all that out there, if you have any questions, critiques, or anything you want to mention, please comment below! Since we're doing polls, this is kind of my "break" season so I'll have a little bit more time to respond to things. I'll still make a loop for July like I always do. But in comparison to being overrun with project work its definitely a lot easier to handle.
And finally, as you may have saw already, the polls are here! Please go and let your voice be heard! As of right now the top 3 are within two votes of each other, so every vote counts!
Oh and beware that there is currently a scam bot plaguing the fanbox comment section pretending to be an official account. Please don't click on any of those links. I'll delete them as soon as I see them. If I turn off comments temporarily it means that the scam bot is still running rampant. But I'll try to keep comments open here for at least a week or two. If comments are off here during your time of seeing this, you can dm us in the discord server, we're open to hear you out!