Progress Report - August 27, 2021 (Patreon)

Hello, everyone!

What is this? A Friday progress report, actually being posted on Friday? And more Overbreed WIP animation, to boot?! Why, this can only mean one thing! Aardvark ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶o̶b̶o̶t̶!̶  must be feeling better!

And indeed, this is the case. Thank fucking God for that.

Before we get into the update, though: Click here to watch the full 57-second WIP! 

Health Update

Until this debacle, I have had the privilege of going 27 years without once having food poisoning. I have long been extremely paranoid about it. I have always cooked everything I've made well-done, and if I even suspect that something is on the verge of going bad, I yeet it into the trash so hard the can moves.

Then lazy me finally won out. I read across various sources that the old adage that pork needs to be cooked well-done was revised in the early-to-mid 2000's, and that medium-rare pork was safe. Hey, that means I get to cook delicious pork chops and eat them with only a fraction of the waiting time!

Don't believe their fucking lies.

The food poisoning (or, as various people I've spoken to including a nurse practitioner suspect, stomach virus) only vacated my gut for two days. But it took nearly three weeks to heal to the point where I actually feel like my digestive system is back to normal.

All because I couldn't wait another 10 or so minutes to cook my pork. Not. Fucking. Worth it.

Cook your fucking pork, kids. Don't take chances with your health. Don't risk food poisoning. Don't gamble with getting knocked out for three fucking weeks and ending up going to a walk-in clinic after losing your appetite entirely for 3 solid fucking days.

That being said, I am still taking things slowly diet-wise. I believe I noted that I was feeling better some days back, but then I slid and basically undid all of that recovery. I suspect that was because I jumped too quickly back into eating my normal carb-heavy diet, and I undid what healing my gut had accomplished.

This time around I am taking it much slower, reducing my carb intake and diversifying my diet, while focusing on gentle bland foods like sandwiches and raw fruits. It's not the most glamorous eating in the world, but I've never been one to derive any particular satisfaction from food, so it honestly doesn't bother me much. I'd rather eat sandwiches for a week and feel healthy than eat cheese nachos for a day and feel sick as a dog.

I am hoping to start introducing my more normal meals this next week, though I am going to avoid the more greasy things until the week after. So reintroduce things like chicken strips and hotdogs, but skip out on things like burgers and nachos. If I do well with those things, then I will start introducing the more greasy foods. And if all goes well, then by the 15th of next month I will be confident enough to say that I've fully recovered from this fucking stomach virus.

That being said, I'm not sure when I am going to try eating pork again. The appetite loss I've described a few times now started the day after I ate pork. That was also the day I was trying to eat hella greasy cheese nachos, though. I don't know which triggered the appetite loss. The pork was cooked to hell and back, but it is entirely possible the appetite-loss was psychological, a subconscious reaction to eating the same food that got me sick last time. Maybe after the 15th, if everything is well and I've ruled out the grease causing problems.

Maybe.

And again, I really do have to reiterate: Just cook your fucking pork. God damn. Don't go through this shit. It ain't worth it.

Progress Update

Okay, with the health rant out of the way: I've gotten back to work on Overbreed!

I've actually been getting back into making lewd stuff over the past week. If you follow my Twitter, then you're likely aware of the Spontanephoto project I've been playing with the past few days. I've actually been having tons of fun with it, being a blend of pinups, programming, and exploring ideas I've had that don't really belong anywhere else.

I had to pry myself away from working on it to work on Overbreed again. And it was a good thing, too: as before, where I got a minute of progress made in a single sitting, I managed to get another minute of progress made today!

Amusingly, the project file as I showed the last WIP a few weeks ago was actually just a temporary file. The way I was working on this project is I was simply making little 5-second looping clips, with multiple cameras set up and notes to myself of which camera went with which line. Then I had trimmed cuts for transitions and was jumping around mentally to piece it all together.

For the WIP video, I tried screen-recording all of the angles and cutting and extending them in Resolve. When that ended up being a complete headache to deal with the starts-and-stops and the cropping and the whole nine yards, I spun up a temporary file and copy-paste-extended the shots with their appropriate camera angles into the linear layout that was later posted.

When it was all done and dusted, though, I reflected on it and realized that I might as well keep and progress this "temporary" project file - the timing, angles, lighting, and placements were all going to be what I needed anyways. It didn't make much sense to do it all again in a few months, when I am ready to render everything out.

And so I just elevated that "temporary" project file to a working file, and have been extending it linearly ever since! Makes a lot more sense, and makes it easier for me to more accurately judge the pacing of things.

I have to say that I am rather enjoying this trend of getting a minute of progress done per session. I am hoping it'll continue. And I am hoping I won't be getting sick days after making this fucking post, like I did with the last Overbreed WIP, so that next week I'll have multiple sessions' worth of progress to share with you all!

As a closing word, if you missed it at the top: Click here to watch the full 57-second WIP!

That's all I have for you right now. Until next time, everyone!