The ball is now rolling.
Base character animation is all complete. I have my secondary animator doing all the detail work on F. All the stuff that he's doing is stuff that you probably won't notice, but you would notice if he didn't do it.
All water effects for the episode are complete. My FX guy is now working on all the snow in scene F. He is very enthusiastic about doing it too and really gushed about the scene. I hope you enjoy it as much as he did.
In terms of modeling, there are two props I still need done for Scene F, some set touch-ups for Scene A that are currently being done by a freelancer, and a background element that exists in the skybox of scenes A, C, and F. I now have all the material necessary to completely render scenes B, D, and G if I needed to do it today.
I am currently finalizing the sound mix for the entire episode to pass off to my sound guy and I'm making sure everything is lined up correctly. The one thing missing is the ending song, which I am now prodding the musician to finish by the end of July, and I am confident he will.
The final runtime, without credits, is 24 minutes and 37 seconds. At this point, the only big thing left is the lighting. I feel like if I pushed it, I could finish mid-August, but I'm going to give myself a little bit of leeway. I plan to release the episode in September.