yeah i'm thinkin every month i should post what's basically a newsletter here on patreon so you guys aren't left in the dark for months at a time and it's funny that i'm literally only just now doing this when it seems like a given for most creators
here are things i am currently working on
animation tutorial
i've created an outline for a tutorial on how to get started animating in blender AS SOON AS POSSIBLE because a problem i kinda foresee in a lot of potential creatives is the sheer breadth of things they feel they have to understand before even attempting to get into animation to make their dream projects (3D modelling and texturing and rigging and compositing etc); decision paralysis is real and fucked so the best way to break the ice is to get you familiarized with the fundamentals of blender's interface and tools so you can make your first animation in the history of god and also the planet
once this tutorial is released i can start ~amassing an army of animators~ providing more general tutorials on other blender functions and most interestingly animation philosophy (body mechanics and workflows and whatnot)
character rig to put on sale
so there's this OC whose design i've spent probably 9 years trying to perfect and quite recently i think i've got it down, her name is Kasumi (screenshots attached) and she's very cool and once i'm done modelling and rigging and texturing using all the techniques i've accumulated over the years i can put her on sale on gumroad (price pending) for you to use at your leisure, which would be especially fitting after you potentially grasp blender fundamentals with the aforementioned animation tutorial
more rigs to make available because i literally cannot afford to be stingy with them anymore taxes will eat you alive dude watch out
people keep asking for the character rigs i animate with and my main reservation regarding their release was always people making weirdo fuckass porn with them (and even worse so BAD porn) but at this point i'm kinda over it
i can release rigs for jeanne and jalter soon after i update jalter's shaders to bring them more in line with jeanne's (priorities) among other miscellaneous fixes; i can't really SELL them because monetizing copyrighted characters MIIIIGHT be illegal but offering them as an additional innocuous bonus for being a patron may work because i'm not directly profiting off of them
when it comes to other characters we'll cross that bridge when we get there (mirabelle will most likely end up not being on sale anyway because my standards for her use would be too high and also she would cost 5 morbillion dollars)
mirabeau studios commentary tracks
this remains a very early work in progress; coming up with shit for characters like sean connery and morgan freeman to say as they react to past videos in real time is more daunting than you'd expect because you also have to record those lines and time them accordingly; it's currently a low priority but i'll prolly be able to put at least one out soon
sleepwalker part 2.
the script has been done for over a year. i'm almost a third of the way through layout/storyboarding. it's going to take a while