Update #66 - Summer Sprites

Hey everyone! It's been a minute since the last update and that's mainly because I've been pretty actively relating upcoming stuff with each actual release, but I realize that doesn't help the general public, so it's time to fix that.

Progress has been admittingly slow the past month and that's primarily due to the usual Summer problem: excessive heat. I'll be honest, I'd rather not be sitting in a hot room working on a new release when I could be in a nice cold pool for 5 hours. It is what it is. The quality would just suffer for the releases if I forced myself to do them anyways.

The past two weeks in particular have been really heating up. It rained a bit yesterday, which brought some nice cloud coverage and shade, and brought the temperature down to a modest 105 degrees, with extra high humidity so it felt like an oven. For clarity, that's what we like to call, "Fuck that"-weather. The good news is that, looking at the extended forecast and the "average" for the upcoming months, the worst should be over with until next summer.

That means back to the grind!

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With that out of the way, let's look at what's being worked on. First, there's a few hangovers from the previous update that still need to be released, primarily:

Mienfoo and Mienshao will likely be the next release. I'll admit, I've hesitated with it because I'm concerned about how the sleeves will work for Mienshao. There's some options, but I know there's going to be significant clipping.

Archen / Archeops won't necessarily be immediately after, but they will be the next Fossil Week release.

Munna / Musharna are going to be delayed. Munna is a very outdated sprite and I'll be honest, there's nothing I hate more than those "dresses" that 80% of Base/Pre-Evolution Moemon all tend to have. Until Munna gets a new sprite, this will be on the back-burner.

Fun fact, Musharna got an even newer sprite while we're waiting for Munna. I like this design even better, so I hope the artist for her will touch on Munna soon.

Another slew of Gym Leaders, Villains, and Elite Four members. A couple of notes, though; similar to Elesa, I may only do one of Ghetsis' outfits now and do the other later, depending on time. Likewise, I've technically done Iris before as Champion, but I think I still need to do her regular outfit?

All of these will be female, btw.

And here's our main previews for our September releases. Likewise, a couple of notes: There's obviously going to be some difficulties with both Timburr's line and with Garbodor, as you can see them wielding very large objects (or in Garbodor's case, a whole baby). I have some ideas to work around those, but with Garbordor I'm a bit more concerned.

Also, I think the oldest sprite set in here is Klink's line. I'll more than likely push off that line as long as possible in the off-chance there's an update, because the base design is rather complex in terms of.. well, functionality?

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That's it for our previews.

There's a few others that may be reworked or updated slightly, like Volcarona, but that will likely just be paired with their subsequent partner's release (in her case, with Alder). Also, there are a few Legendaries/others I have in mind, but nothing to preview just yet.

I'll also be posting some more previews as well as inspiration artwork for some of the genderbent trainers in the Discord, so follow a long there if you haven't yet - https://discord.gg/r7w9zc9A

That's it for now!

See you next release!