Update 04/19 - Audiolog Experiment, Fallout Actualplay and Shorts

This is Earndil writing (Lead Writer and Voice of Fatigue, Shitbeard and Kevin (just so you don't read this entire post in Kevin's voice alone))

It's a Friday (as of writing, god only knows when Alfa will post this)

THAT MEANS IT'S UPDATE TIME (wow).

What updates are going on this week you may ask!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Some...

Let me explain:

Now that we have firmly recovered from the release of Chapter 4, we have once again shifted back into our quite standard state of "we're working on stuff, so releases shall be somewhat dry" state.

That's not to say we're not going to be releasing things before the release of Chapter 5, however!

In fact, we're working quite hard on some Shorts right now!
And things are proceeding at a very rapid pace, believe it or not.
Panel art for the Shorts has been diligently worked on, and is making rapid progress alongside the work we're doing for Episode 5, as well as the four Prologues and first episode of Norfolk Wizard Game!

Episode 5's audio has been all but completely collected by now, so we're hard on the other aspects... the lengthy and time consuming aspects such as procuing panel art and preparing for the long and arduous task of animating (gods peed Karl Alfa and Garrot).
Expect this kind of thing to be status quo for the next, euhg I dunno, like good while?
We're working on reducing the production time in smart ways, but frankly full episodes, especially ones like this take a long time to produce on our budget.

Speaking of Budget, we're eyeing a potential additional partnership with Makeship for the future... but we have no firm plans for that yet.
Stay tuned, because the income we received from the last drop was unbelievably helpful in getting us back at a running pace again, and has made an ungodly contribution to this year's budget. So an IMMENSE thank you to all who went and got that Kevin.

Shorts!

For Shorts, which we promised we'd be releasing more of post EP4, we have 4 in the pipe right now, two of which are animated in a similar vein to a full episode, and two which are mini-lore videos akin to the Video Essay we released on WoD proper a while back.
We have learned many things working on them however! And what we have learned is!

We're not gonna do fully animated shorts in the same quality as episodes going forward. They're entirely too time consuming.

BUT WE DID LEARN THAT VIDEO ESSAY STYLE SHORTS WITH DETAILS ON THE SETTING ARE VERY EASY AND QUICK TO DO. WE WILL LIKELY BE WORKING MORE ON THEM ONCE WE CONCLUDE A CERTAIN "EXPERIMENT" WHICH I'LL ELABORATE ON... NOW!

Audiologs?!

As established previously, Audiologs have been greatly received in the past, but they have also costed us a lot of time and delayed our mainline episodic content.
But we still WANT Audiologs in our pipeline because they are such good creative outlets, space to flesh out our characters and teach about the setting we inhabit.
So, how can we have our cake and recklessly devour it too?

We are currently setting up a little experiment with various people working on our roster but not involved in the editing and animation of mainline episodes.
We will try to set up two separate teams of workers/animators.
One team will be solely focused on producing Audiolog content, and the other shall be focused on producing mainline content, such as episodes and the like!

This is so that we can potentially work on and release simpler and less intensely edited Audiologs alike the Kitten and Big-D Primer, the Probing of Kevin, and the Avoiding Arrest Audiologs. This while we still make prodigious progress on episode work (because we have a horrendous tendency to over-produce Audiologs, and by we I mean Alfa, Karl, and Garrot, I am passing the buck).

Hopefully this will work out well, and shall result in some ACTUAL STUFF being released between now and Chapter 5.

Fallout...? Huh? What?

Well, as you may have heard, I (Earndil) am spearheading a potential Fallout:tm: liveplay, in a similar way to how Speaker is running NWG!

We're in the prologue state right now, but we're running and operating concurrent to all of our other stuff, and we have a skilled artist producing material for it as well, so that it does not deduct vital working time from mainline material to do.
I THINK IT'S VERY GOOD SO FAR, AND WE'VE ONLY GOT ONE PROLOGUE DONE, ART'S GOOD, LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE GAMERS IN THE SHOW.
I can talk more about it later when we have more progress.

On the topic of Norfolk Wizard Game, we're now in the process of and almost finished with animating simple visuals to make it moreeeaaaahhhh ENTERTAINING TO WATCH?
Because it's a pen and paper game, it helps to have something with visual flair to look at as you hear us yammer on for hours on end.

THIS IS A RINGING ENDORSEMENT, IF YOU LIKE OUR WORK (especially our Audiolog stuff), YOU'LL LIKE THIS. A LOT. We put magic in it.

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For now though, that's what I've got!

Until next time, have a poppeng rest of your day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Earndil

Until next time, have a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!