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HAPPY NEW YEAR + New year program!
🕑 Added 2025-12-31 11:03:23 +0000 UTCHappy New Year, Thanks for sticking around!!
Heyaaaa!! Wanted to wish you all a happy new year!!
It's been a long and great year, I had lots of fun, made lots of content and I've been really positive and happy all year long!! c:
Thank you all so much for sticking around, I'm so happy to have so many nice and supportive people around, to this day it still feels incredible!!
I must admit when I started, I was the first to be sceptical that it would have ever worked, I couldn't imagine that people would financially support me and that one day I'd be able to do this as my job. I always try to give my best and treat this passion of mine to just a passion but also as a job: clear schedule, work calendars, off days, careful planning and making sure I will always offer as much as I can!
But enough with the sentimental talk and let's dive on what awaits for 2026!! :D
What I want to achieve in 2026
This year has been really huge improvement wise, my content compared to last year has seen a huge jump in quality, I learned so much about: lighting, animation, effects, organise my schedule efficiently and much much more. I'm constantly trying to learn more as a I loooove learning. Next year I want to do the same! Keep aiming higher and higher and put all the things I learned in the next movie project:
Project Nightbringer
All the quality improvements, the work management and workflow improvements made me think that perhaps it's time to give long projects another try! Starting from next month I will be working on Project Nightbringer. My estimation is that it will take a bit more than 4 months, but I don't want to compromise too much when it comes to quality so may take a bit more time if needed!
Don't worry though, I will be keeping you updated with exclusive Posts & WiPs and alongside the movie I will be making the monthly poll animation which is gonna have more time dedicated to it aaand will see a quick rework to balance things out based on this year's feedback!Schedule!
For the first part of the year my main focus will be on the movie, which means the only animation I will release each month is gonna be the monthly poll animation alongside WiPs and maybe some occasional content I make for fun in my free-time. I don't know yet how this will play out as I never did this before.
Most of you probably know that I looove making lots of different content each month so working on the same project for so long will be something new to me D:Temporary monthly animation poll change
To accommodate the production of the movie while maintaining variety I will be reducing the monster ban to 1 month since the majority of supporters to this day are still here for monster content. So it will be an alternation of Monster and Not Monster content.
Also BG3 will be banned from poll during movie production for obvious reasons. :oAlongside that here's a poll on what changes you'd like to implement to the poll!
MONTHLY POLL ANIMATION REWORK
The main issue that were reported about the Monthly Animation Poll is about variety. Many changes has been made since the introduction of the monthly animation poll but now is surely more needed than ever due to the normal schedule being paused.
Character Ban rework
The character ban rework is surely the most needed.
A - The Character Ban will be extended to all year. If a character won during the year, it won't be available in the poll until next year!
B - The Character Ban will last until the normal schedule is back. If a character won during the movie production months, it won't be available until the normal schedule is back.
Character Variety Month
Every 3rd month, the Monthly Animation Poll will have a twist. On the 3rd month the only characters allowed in the poll will be characters I never used before to keep things fresh and allow some of your less popular waifus to win! This doesn't mean only unpopular characters will win as there are many very popular characters I never used!
A - Yes I'd like a Character Variety Month
B - No I'm not particularly interested in a Character Variety Month but I'm willing to give it a try and see if it's a good idea!
C - No, I don't want a Character Variety Month
Lastly, I want to remind everyone that I'm just a person trying to make content for many supporters and myself. Not all the animations and decision might be of everyone's liking but I'm trying my best to make something for everyone while keeping as much agency as I can to ensure I don't burnout :D
Thank you again to everyone for this amazing year together!! Next year it's gonna be very exciting but also very different in the first part of it! I hope this journey will turn out to be a new happy adventure with all of you and again, I wish you all an amazing happy new year!! :D
Feel free to ask any question here or in the discord server! :D
Comments
mikeinson
Happy new years to everyone! Just wanted to take the opportunity and say thanks as well for the great work! I've been really happy to see project nightbringer for the future. Ever since I saw your "old" longer project I've been waiting to see you will make another one. In my oppinion your longer projects are all from such a high qualitiy. I am utterly sure that this one will be awesome and absolutely worth the waiting. Cheers
Trapped In Neverland
Happy new years! Thanks for another great one, happy to support and looking forward to the movie! Something that might be relatively low-effort compared to an animation could be small tutorials or workflow videos. If you’ve ever considered making some (or haven’t already done so in the past). I’ve downloaded Blender and the Wildeer Studio Lara model before, but I was hardly able to move the model before getting stuck. So, tutorials could be a cool occasional offering. Regardless, looking forward to the next year of great stuff from you!
john
Happy New Year!! Thank you for all you do!! ❤️❤️
