Rachnera's Reprise progress & update (Patreon)

Pertaining to my previous post, I haven't got Rachnera's Reprise finished just yet, as I've taken some time off.
There are a handful of reasons as to why it's been taking so long...

The main reason is because my girlfriend is transitioning jobs. This transition period has taken a little longer than expected, resulting in her having two weeks off work!
She's been spending all of her time around the house. I don't like throwing blame on people, but trust me guys, I can't focus on animation, she's so clingy 😒
So I decided to take some time off with her, and I'll be picking the pace back up when she goes back to work (hopefully next week god pls 🙏)

And the second biggest reason, is because Blender is sucky.
I very quickly remembered why the first Rachnera animation ("Rachnera's Rough Wrangling") took three months to animate, and was a nightmare to work with...
It's because of the webs. There's definitely a more optimised method of creating webs, but these things are all over the scene, and dynamically bind to each part of Miia's tail using Geometry Nodes.
With all webs on viewport, my Blender is previewing the animation at ~3fps 😬
Haha, I'm never doing this again 😄

Despite the delays, I've still been chipping away at the animation bit by bit.
I've completed three minutes so far, and I'm only aiming for the animation to be four minutes long. I really just wanna get this project out of the way, as I'm REALLY excited to start creating the animation for Octo. I already have that animation planned out with a full intro sequence.
I love animating snake tails to move as realistically as possible. Just you wait see what Imma cook with an octopus 🐙

Small general update -
With ditching the schedule, I will be committed to posting at least once per week on Patreon.
That's no-more than seven days without a post. I will be giving detailed progress and image previews of my work more often.

Rachnera's Reprise should release in about a week, hopefully less.
Sorry again for any frustration in delays.

Thank you all for supporting me 🐍💖