May 2020 Update

New Project Soon

Just a quick update to let you know what's going on recently. 

First of all some good news: I'll be releasing a new animation project soon, created in Unity.  Current estimation is sometime in June. My progress with learning Unity is going well: I'm getting more comfortable with the program every day, which means many new projects on the horizon. Either way, I'm excited about finally releasing something new~

That's mostly all I wanted to say.

However, you can keep reading if you'd like some more insight.

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The Stone Age

This is probably the last time I will talk about or mention Flash in a patreon update. Unity is not only a fairly powerful engine for making games, it's also got fantastic 2D-animation tools. So with that being said I want to clarify something which I've alluded to many times in the past although, though never outright confirmed it. All current and future Flash project plans and developments are, until further notice, indefinitely suspended.

I am at this point more likely to completely remake the project from scratch in Unity than I am to update an older flash project. Creating a project in Flash is like trying to build a house with stone tools, while Unity is like having access to modern power tools. While I understand that a lot of people were looking forward to some updates, it's become very hard to justify spending anymore time in Flash. Even just finishing my update to FFF could take another couple of weeks or more, and I just don't have it in me.

When I first truly realized Flash was a sinking ship and I had to move onto something else, it created some serious motivation problems. Rather than immediately switch to something better, I decided to stick with Flash due to familiarity, and I regret doing so. After a certain point, my motivation to animate was at an all-time low, and I didn't even want to open up any of my projects anymore. That's why I just drew artwork instead, since I still had a desire to create things, even if I had no desire to open Flash. I know it's not an adequate replacement to animations, but it was better than doing nothing.

Also big thanks to Scion for helping me learn Unity and providing custom scripts to dramatically improve the experience. I plan to work with StudioWhy (Created by Tiarawhy and Scion) on various projects in the future. Hopefully we can do some cool stuff together.

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Future of Patreon

My Patreon has been fairly inactive while I improve my skills and figure things out. I do apologize for not engaging with patrons more often, though it wasn't because I didn't care. Without any finished projects to show off, the best I could do was tell people that I'm still here and still trying my best. I hope that the new projects I create will make up for it.

I'm not disappointed to see the number of patrons fall to where it's at now, in fact I'm actually incredibly grateful that there's still so many people who want to support my work even today. The support wasn't for nothing: it's provided me the ability to learn new tools. So I genuinely thank my Patrons for investing in me, and believing in me, even when things have seemed so uncertain in recent time. 

- Love, Mittsies ♥