Soulspire Dev Update #26

Hi all! Sorry for getting the last dev update and doing this one late... I'm still here working on the update, so don't worry about that! I've completed most of the stills and am working on the animations as well. I've included a little teaser here for what happens at the beginning of the update. I definitely can't include teasers for what happens at the end, though! All I can say is... It's going to be a blast. :)

I'm still targeting end of September for the release, exact date TBD. I'm out of town next Wednesday through to the following Monday (Sept 15-21), so my current goal is to get tons of stuff queued up to render, especially animations. At ~5 minutes per frame and 24 frames/second, it takes two hours to render one second of animation, and I'm hoping to have a lot of seconds of animations. :P So, I'm trying to get everything turn-key ready before my trip, and then I can remote into my PC and render all that stuff while I'm out of town. I have backup plans for if that fails, but it's worked before, so fingers crossed that works again. :)

I'll get the special render poll posted soon, too, just wanted to get this dev update out before I somehow forgot again. :P