The Big Progress Update

Well, I finally got around to writing this post. I want to show you what I’ve been working on lately, what I’m working on now, and explain what’s been going on behind the scenes

There’s going to be more text and more pictures than usual, so prepare yourselves

First, I’m going to show you a few abandoned projects

And since some people don’t read the text and only look at the pictures (and honestly, I do the same) let me make this extremely clear:

😮 These are ABANDONED ❗ projects 💀

⚠️ They are NOT WIPs of future animations! 🤯

Anyway, here are the ABANDONED projects ⬇️⬇️⬇️

As you can see, besides trying a few other girls, I made several attempts at doing an animation with Juno. I even made a poster with her, but never posted it because I didn’t like how it turned out:

I abandoned almost all of these because I simply didn’t like the way the animation looked.

I’d start animating, and the result would be completely different from what I had in my head. Sure, I could change the pose, move the camera, and start the animation over from scratch, but by that point, after spending hours getting absolutely nowhere - or rather, getting somewhere completely different from where I wanted to go, I’d usually decide to kill the project and start something new with a clear head

Here are a few more abandoned projects:

Same process here: set up the pose and lighting > start animating > it looks like shit > start another project

Here, by the way, is my first attempt at making an animation with Mercy. Originally, this was supposed to be a blowbang scene:

I didn’t like it, so I dropped the blowbang idea and reworked the whole thing. You already saw the final result in the previous post. Still, I didn’t give up on making a blowbang scene - and this is where we get to the big story animation I mentioned before.

Originally, I planned to run a poll to choose the main girl. There were only going to be two options: Domina and Tracer.

Here’s why I picked those two:

1) I personally wanted to work with both of them

2) For now, I’m not putting girls who already have a big animation into these polls (Kiriko, Brigitte, Mercy, and Widow)

3) I try to build every poll so that each girl has a realistic chance of winning. For example, if I put Ashe and Symmetra in the same poll, Symmetra is getting absolutely demolished. Tracer and Domina seemed fairly evenly matched to me

Before launching the poll, I wanted to make a small animated preview for both Domina and Tracer, explain the basic setup, and then finally let you vote.

I would continue the animation for whoever won, adding more scenes, a cumming version for each scene, several camera angles, and so on. The smaller preview featuring the losing girl would be looped and released as a standalone short animation

That’s when I started making this blowbang scene with Tracer:

It already looked better than the earlier Mercy version, but something still felt off. I just didn’t like it.

By this point, I had accumulated a critical mass of abandoned projects (that Freja animation in the Dokiwatch skin I showed about a month ago is also in the trash now). My motivation dropped through the floor, and I ended up taking almost two weeks off

The break did me some good, though. I came back with a functioning brain and started animating again

First, I still wanted to finally finish a blowbang scene. For a bit of variety, I picked Widow and made this in one evening:

It’s a complete scene with an ending, and I’ve also prepared a looped version for rendering.

I liked it so much that I decided to build a full story animation around it. I’ve already started animating the intro, so consider this an official announcement: a new Widow animation is coming.

(I know this directly contradicts what I said earlier, since Widow already has a big animation. Hopefully none of you are particularly upset about that)

However, that’s not even the main announcement

The real focus is Tracer and Domina - and there won’t be a poll between them, because I’m making a BIG animation with both of them.

I kept thinking about ideas from the projects I abandoned, and apparently my brain started working again during the break. I came up with a story that naturally includes Tracer, Domina, and a few others.

There will be five girls (!) in the animation

I’m not going to reveal the entire plot yet. All I’ll say is that the story revolves around a conflict between two factions: Tracer and Widow on one side, and Domina with the others on the opposite side. The intro alone is already over a minute long

Working on this project gives me the same kind of enthusiasm I had almost four years ago when I was making my first Instant loss animation

This animation is big, and there is a LOT of work ahead of me. God, give me the strength to actually finish this thing 🙏

I’m not giving any release dates. I’ll only work on it when I genuinely feel like working on it, so I don’t burn myself out again. I’ll show WIPs from time to time, and in between those updates, I’ll continue posting other animations like usual

Also, I started making a short Kiriko animation:

I’ll post that one soon.

And that’s about it for now. I don’t say this very often, but this seems like a good time: thank you for subscribing. It helps me out a lot

Well, hopefully this was interesting. More updates eventually!