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Episode 11 at long last. We've got Rose and Sophodra, we've got ants, we've got human lore, and we've got lots and lots of beetles (including a very weird one). Thank you for sticking with me patiently. Enjoy!!!

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Soundtrack, sound design and foley were by @theelectricdreamsofddx, with Gregorsa’s theme by @zestychille, plus additional background art and CG assets by sinclairedelune !

This is also the first episode to have voice actors other than myself. Clef is played by @spidermanifested, the bombardier is @marshmallowturnip, the unsure hiver is @snagerdraws, and the cashier is doodlesnstuffe They’re all extremely talented, so be sure to give their stuff a look!

You can also listen to the OST for the episode here:

https://ddxexe.bandcamp.com/album/humans-b-gone-11-not-gone-yet-ost

I recently found this tiny little speck of a grasshopper nymph and I need everyone to see it

Finishing the Look Outside art contest reward image for the winner! This was the winning picture of the contest, by reddit user u/eggo_boi !

They requested an image featuring Stargazer. Started yesterday and am finish it tonight.

Tune in here to watch!

Like any child, Sophodra loves playing with her pet dog!

All voice recording is done, both mine and the other VAs!!! Audio cleanup, also done!!!!!

Besides that, I also made the animation tweening function! The audio was a TON of work, though, so that's about it.

Next week, I'll put together the setup for making the animatic (canvas system needs to be integrated, after fixing a resizing issue), and start getting to work on it. Hopefully, the work should go fairly quickly...but, there is a whole lot of storyboard to cover. One or two weeks, we'll say.

Which makes me wonder...what was the head supposed to look like?

Caine sees a mirror live reaction

I keep seeing this picture and similar ones and it keeps giving me thoughts. Yeah I do agree with the message ! And these animals are hated by many peoole !! But let's be honest. These are still fairly conventionally cute. They're big eyed fluffy affectionate pretty intelligent mammals and birds. So today, I'm offering y'all my own version.

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

Well, Empusa. Don't you want to see what she caught?

Boards are DONE!!!! Not only that, but they're all photographed and cleaned up and converted to Grease Pencil now! And believe you me, that was. A LOT. OF BOARDS. Seven sequences, with an average of three scenes per sequence! This is the longest episode yet, by far.

Auditions came and went, and actors have been found for all three roles! Thank you to everyone who submitted!!!

Young Woman 1 - Mika https://bsky.app/profile/doooodlebug.bsky.social Young Woman 2 - Snager https://linktr.ee/snager Mantis Nymph 2 - Pink https://bsky.app/profile/pinkangel725.bsky.social

I've also updated the episode script to account for changes I made in the storyboarding stage. Plus, I've written Python code to automatically separate dialogue out for generating subtitles, and to make files that are just lists of all the dialogue lines per character. Because the episode scripts were getting so long, they were now absolutely unmanageable without the code. (This isn't counting the additional coding I had to do for more folder and file management in general, or the updates I had to make to the storyboard clean-up set-ups to account for the latest board layout--well worth it, though, for how clean they are now!)

Next week, it's time to record voices! Next month, then, I am going to focus on some very big things:

making the animatic, so my helpers can finally get started on backgrounds, assets and music

updating Mother Sophodra's model for the new system

at the same time, wrapping up most of the remaining BrushRig features as I test them with MS's model--both mechanical and aesthetic! (Only the fur system and some animation stuff would be left.)

updating Empusa as well

and finally, beginning to animate a scene with them as a test of the new system overall!!!