This animation can be found in the 2026 Dropbox folder, found in the pinned masterpost:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/release-folder-s-156472123?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Notes

Venom eked out another poll victory and finally got his own animation with dialogue and all - hooray. Hopefully powerscalers don't get on my case for this one, lol.

I'm currently in a phase where I'm working on some relatively longer stuff, hence the gaps between releases. The primary challenge I'm facing regarding this is that my interest tends to drop off pretty heavily around the halfway point, as I get the itch to move on to another character/setting. The time span between releases that looms over also tends to irk me around that stage. Overall, this animation in particular could probably have been trimmed down at least a bit. I also ended up omitting an anal variant as the lower body did distort in an odd way to where it ambiguous, but it's technically vaginal penetration.

One thing I tried experimenting with in this animation was faster-paced dialogue with smaller gaps between lines. I think it came out really awkward than I would have hoped for, especially the tail end of the intro which I'm really not a fan of at all (insert "dudes be like Subway sucks" meme here). I also tried going for some deliberately awkward English dialogue for Magik and it just compounded into a bit of a mess. Writing in general is just something I hope to get better with over time. I think I'm just flat out bad at it. On a somewhat more positive note, the intro took way less time to animate than expected and ended up looking better than the actual main part. Weird how that works.

I ended up playing way more with graphic effects for this animation than originally intended. In all honestly it was mostly an excuse to fiddle around in DaVinci, although I generally try to be a bit avert with that sort of stuff, which is mostly motivated by a paranoia of using it as a crutch and/or making stuff that's tacky. I very much prefer the idea of making more out of less.

To end, I figured my first ever action scene warranted busting out some (albeit minor (pun unintended)) music chops. I find adding music really fun when justified, but I'm wary of anything that may detract from just sitting my ass down and animating.

The upcoming animation stars Yuffie and Cloud for something more intimate and smaller scale (WiP is available). I'm currently mulling over either making something out of Mass Effect or Baldur's Gate. Have a lovely weekend and I'll see you next time!