Hello, hello!

Hope that you folks are doing well. I've been pretty tied up in projects and what not, and I figured that I'd take some time to give you guys a little update on how things are going. Gonna just jump right into it!

Upcoming Episode: Episode 4 - Rising Warriors

Release Date: July/August

Yep! This is definitely still in production, and Sen and Valerie are gonna need a miracle to end Abyss' tyranny. At the moment, I'm working with a buncha' key frames here so I can make animating this episode go a lot more swimmingly. Ever since Episode 2's production some time ago, I learned a lot with time management and creating character designs that'll be a lot more fun to work with. The time I'm looking to release this may be in a couple of months give things go well with animating.

Some WIPs of this episode I'll post to Twitter and here when I get the chance (with a few more goodies on Patreon), but I'll be prioritizing getting all of the key frames done. The story will continue soon!

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Upcoming Episode: TBA

Release Date: Q3/4 2020

Just wanna say, the overwhelming and welcoming feedback for the start of this story is incredible, and I heavily appreciate it! Y'know, I figure that I can probably clarify some things about the characters that you saw in the animation, since it'll help in the long run.

Pictured above, the duo consists of Kai and Indigo (the sentient hat), and they are essentially bounty hunters that have chemistry down to a T when it comes to dealing with threats! The first encounter that they had in the recent animation was against a long time rival Sophia, who is out to hunt Indigo, a demon himself. Whilst somewhat reckless, Sophia has similar motives to Kai, but with more of a destructive end result. In conjunction to Kai's combat abilities and harnessing energy to use against her enemies, Indigo is a demon of hindsight, aiding Kai in spotting potential bounties and demons that may catch them of guard. Lots of new encounters and foreboding demons will make their appearances later on in the story!

Currently, I'm working on story boarding the 2nd episode of Chaotic Heart, which I hope to have finished within a week or two. The final animation itself will likely come to fruition sometime later this year, but I'll be updating this series in a similar way as Beyond the Fog via WIPs!

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OTHER STUFF

I'll be honest, I wish I had the time to work on some other side projects, but I do my best to work on them as steadily as possible. As much as I want to animate different things, gotta balance and have some main projects to create a narrative! Though, whenever I am working on projects on the side, they are kind of like little breakaways from what I usually do and they can be fun! Above and below are two perspective ones that I've been kind of on-and-off with, but the plan is to finish both of them sometime next year.

Oh, and Solace is still a thing! Don't worry!

(Sadly, this isn't the final cut, lol.)

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FINAL THINGS?

If you've gotten this far, thank you for reading (if you did)! It's been so long since the last formal update on how things are going, and I hope that this update helped clear the waters. By the way, if you aren't aware of where else you can find me in the wild wes- I mean, internet, here are some links to other places that you can find me:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy19tcWgf4xCGyjjcEnl_qg

Twitter: https://twitter.com/9Hammer

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/9Hammer

Soon, I'll be updating the Patreon with some extra goodies from whichever project I'm working on. I'll see if I can get some bonus material of both Beyond the Fog and Chaotic Heart very soon! The plan with it is to help aid with having some folks on board with these projects to help expedite things, and maybe I'll start doing some early access material too with animations!

Anyways, I hope you folks have a good one!

-Nine