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There is a non-zero probability of it being near the end of 2027.

As it stands right now, the very last of the narrative audio is in the process of being recorded now. Once Milly gets the Narrative C audio to me, which she is hoping to have done by this Friday, then we move onto the dubbing. Mercy has a lot of dubbing to get done, with Sequence A having 1 section, Sequence B having 4 sections, and Sequence C having 8 sections. But, assuming Milly doesn't have any more emergencies complicating things, with 25 weeks till January 1 2027, and 13 sections to record, that'd average 2 weeks between sections. That is possible.

On Sombra's side, Cinder is currently recording Sequence C section 5, already halfway done. She already has all of her narrative audio recorded and installed, so once she finishes these last 3 sections, that will be all of Sombra's audio recorded. All of Moira's audio and Zarya's audio has already been recorded and installed.

At that point, the only major elements left to be done is lip-syncing (of which most of the narrative audio is already lip-synced) and polishing the existing animation. And if you've seen any of the WIPs posted over the years, you already know that the current blocking animation is already pretty high-fidelity, meaning not that much polish is needed. Then there's Emphasis and Detail animation, both of which I have greatly streamlined through writing tools to help speed up the Micro Video productions.

From there, the biggest question-mark, and the biggest time sink, is going to be sound design. I intend to do the sound design myself, because as much as I love working with Tonedeaf, and he is absolutely unambiguously a far better audio engineer than I am, he also very reasonably charges a rate reflective of his skill. And as it is, I am already expecting to lose thousands of dollars on Overbreed Episode 1 - I entertain absolutely no illusions that it will generate enough one-time Patreon subscriptions to offset its production cost. Having him sound design the whole thing would easily double the production cost, given the sheer scale of the project.

And while I am a competent sound designer, I am not a good sound designer - and more relevant to this discussion, I am not a fast sound designer. I did the sound design for the 15-minute To Breed And Bond video (not the series that is currently in the middle of releasing its first chapter). And that took me around a month of solid work to sound design. With Overbreed Episode 1 being 4 times as long, we can reasonably expect the sound design to take at least 4 times as long, which means we're looking at 4 months of sound design work. Optimistically.

That's already a third of a year right there. On an optimistic path where I get all of the remaining audio in and installed before January 1, 2027, that then leaves 8 months to polish, lip-sync, Emphasize, and Detail all of the animation.

That's actually fairly reasonable. At that point, most of the time-consuming animation work will have been done. It's only the lip-sync that will be laborious, and I have been working to incrementally chip away at that as the audio comes in.

Of course, there are a lot of assumptions baked into this. The longer it takes for audio to come in, and the more time it takes me to sound design, the less time is left for finishing the animation and getting it ready to render. But even if I only had 4 months, I can foresee a reality where I get all of the animation work done in that time.

All of which is why I say there is a non-zero probability for a Christmas 2027 release.

The probability shoots up dramatically for a 2028 release. I'd be really surprised (and really frustrated) if 2028 comes and goes without a release. I am all but certain it will be done before Christmas 2028.

Similarly, I'd be really surprised if it's ready any earlier than Q4 2027.

So, I guess I can say that I am feeling pretty confident that it will be sometime between Q4 2027 and Q3 2028.

The original plan had 20 ladies for it, but when I did my initial composition testing, I found that I could only comfortably fit 13 of them while keeping the banner clear. It was hard deciding whom to cut, but I ultimately decided on one lady per IP, with an exception for Dead or Alive since the DOAFantasy ladies (represented by Helena) are so far removed from canon that they may as well be original characters at this point.

Liara was one of the 7 ladies who didn't make the cut. Ultimately went with Miranda for Mass Effect, since I already have two Curvy ladies on the banner, with Elsa and Elizabeth.

The cruelty of clarity.

I wouldn't necessarily call them a new standard, but I did put together a strong base texture for both the Toon (think Overwatch and Life is Strange) and Standard bodies, which can be used by any of my DazV5-5 models due to their shared-texture system. And then I put together a process for relatively quickly building matching sweat textures for the individual character face maps.

They're not implemented natively for the models, but rather are added on a per-project basis using TexSwap, and then have their phong parameters tuned with the Material Slider tool. Both of those can be found in the 2026 Ecosystem Tools. I released both the SFM-ready body textures, and the resources to make your own sweaty head textures, in the Sweat Tool Set over on the main Assets page.

We've been angling more for a Doctor Who spin.

I bleeted my plans for the year back in May. Though since Bluesky only lets you pin one post at a time, and I am currently used my pinned posts for the release schedules of current projects, I should probably make a proper blog post about it.

Which will hilariously probably be done before the previous blog post I had written up several weeks ago, and have had about 90% finished. But it is what it is, and this would be a far more useful blog post anyways.

The first Chapter of the Refuge sequel almost made the cut for 2026. In a year where I could only fit four projects, it was the fifth project. Only reason it didn't make the cut is it involves a lot of different scenes, where all of the other projects only requiring at most two.

And the 2027 is the Year of the Original Character, so it obviously didn't make the cut there.

I absolutely want to explore it in 2028, though. High-level premise of the Refuge sequel series is that Ada has been hired to recover a live sample of the D-virus (I'm not above juvenile humor; the virus giving Jill the D has to be the D-virus), while Jill has grown both insatiable and careless, fucking Claire openly all over town. First Chapter is Ada observing and noting their schedule, looking for the perfect opening to insert her opening for insertion.

Each episode is a new day, a new location, and a new way for Jill to fuck Claire in public. You can probably imagine why the amount of scene-building required for 7 different instances of public sex was daunting enough to put the episode into fifth place in a four-rank race.

Unfortunately, what you see there is all there is. If I remember correctly, all of the shots in that intro montage were put together on-stream (as was the episode itself), and we just very quickly rushed through all the intro sequences across two different streams.

With that being said, if Tigole "Yennefer" Bitties is what you're looking for, then you may be pleasantly surprised by my current plans for the fourth episode of Primordium Chapter 1, which will be releasing in late December / early January.

I won't lie, that's probably the first time I've actually seen someone explicitly ask for that. And I also won't lie, the anxious paranoid in me is suspicious if the question is earnest, or is being made in mockery. I've had my fair share of detractors over the years deriding my work exactly for such elements.

Regardless, the next episode of Love and Degeneracy will not only have conversational scissoring, but it will have three-way conversational scissoring (still just two scissoring though, unless..?), as Kate expresses her interest in the details of Chloe's and Max's relationship.

That'll be some time in 2028, though. The earliest next-planned instance, or closest thereof, would probably be Corsair in 2027. Though it is a very minor element, and is just more vaguely conversational sesbian lex. Though it is also possible that Rover Wander Nomad Vagabond will have an episode with it, too. I haven't quite decided if RWNV will be the second or third Chapter released in 2027 yet. Fallen Throne might have it, at the end of 2027. I haven't worked out a lot of the details of that yet, it's so far out.

But yeah. I don't know if you're asking sincerely. If you are, then you are in luck, even if it will be a wait. And if you aren't, then joke's on you, because I'm doing it anyways.

It all began in an age long past, an age lost to memory. Memories become legend. Legends fade to myth. And even myth is long forgotten when the Wheel of Time turns, and the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Aardvark. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time.

But it was a beginning...

Never have,though I have had people request one a few times over the years.

I was never a Halo person growing up, never played one to completion. I think I might have played a demo of Halo CE, and then I tried Halo Infinite when it went free-to-play as a game to play with friends, but it never caught on.

As such, I've never had any particular attachment to Cortana or interest in her. And even if I did set out to make something with her, I wouldn't have any context within which to explore ideas. I don't know the first thing about her, honestly.