Survey, Poll Animation Public Release, Misc Ramble

Survey Link - https://forms.gle/LcCauLiRsGWGFNM2A

A fairly lengthy survey, so I split it across pages for neater presentation. Nothing is required, so answer what you want(and no need to take it at all unless you want to relay your opinions to me). It's all anonymous, since I don't want to, nor need to know your e-mails.

Poll Animations

gofile - https://gofile.io/d/rvI4RT

Just a public release of the Kazumi and Ryza animations. As for the Mai animations, some small 'sneak peeks'.

The SFM Cowgirl remake.

And a new one.

Additionally, a preview of the upcoming poll.

Nioh 2's Minamoto no Yorimitsu, King of Fighter XV's Dolores, and Soul Calibur's Sophitia. I think we all know who's going to win. Try to surprise me. ;)

A Little Ramble

This will just be a bit of a "Behind the Scenes" in regards to the project. These are from the New Year Miyoshino animation.

A little bit hyperbolic, since I did always plan to eventually release a Lightning animation after it was all over(as I ended up doing), but I was just having a little giggle over it. I don't think it's really visible even in the 4k version, though.

I also planned to have the "RickRoll" video from the start. It wasn't a new thing I came up with recently. This was the end game. You can also see "Lightning Sucks" in the shadow. Had fun doing this little easter egg, and wanted to do more but unfortunately I wasn't really able to sneak any more easter eggs like that into any other videos.

Additionally, while I've removed the password to the 'secret sauce' since it really isn't worthwhile, it was a folder created on November 6th of last year. That's more or less around the time when the whole plan started to come together. The original idea was that at the end of each 'path' in the CYOA, it'd give you a list of things. Like, "your lucky color is blue, your lucky number is 5, your lucky letter is L" and such. If you took all the lucky letters and put them in the order of the lucky numbers(with anything else being superfluous), it'd spell out: "whatyouthoughttheredbelightningnopeyougottrolledlightningsucksass", which was the password for the past six months. It's actually 65 characters, but the 65th letter would have been the 'troll option' at the start of the CYOA where you can either start a new game or quit. If you quit, it'll ask you "do you really want to quit?", and if you say yes, it'll repeat the question. It'd basically seem like a 'but thou must' situation, but if you did it 64 times... it'd quit and give you a lucky letter. Completly optional, of course, since you could easily brute force it with all the other letters(it would have been the w), but still. And yes, instead of Lightning in the secret folder, it would have been the RickRoll. :)

As for why I changed the password to what it was, we have to go back to September 2021 when I was making the ghost video. Originally, when going with the VHS aesthetic, I had planned to have the date and time in the lower left corner to be truly authentic. I don't remember which date I had in mind, but it was going to take place in the 90s, and I was going to do some visual gags with it during some of the 'spooky' or 'funny' clips. Obviously I was going to do one with the time of 6:66, because that's a good cliche. Then there'd be some ?:?? times, some glitching times, etc. Of course, this was all very annoying to do, and there were some problems making it work so I ultimately scrapped it.

However, since the date I had in mind was in the 90s, while trying to come up with various ideas for in-between scenes, I wanted something that would immediately evoke the 90s, and Bill Clinton popped into my head. It fit too well. He might deny having sexual relations with a ghost, but we all know he would have sexual relations with a ghost. I was actually going to have it be there for a second or two, but it was such a random, dumb idea and I didn't have enough scenes to work it in anyway that I scrapped it(same reason the poker video that is in there got scrapped - another idea that never got animated since I didn't need it was the guy and ghost sitting on the couch playing a game together, which is sort of where the scene of the ghost playing DMC5 in the second ghost video came from)... but I decided to leave it in for a couple frames instead with the intention of having the first person to find the secret get a 'free commission' basically.

But I figured that could open a whole can of annoying worms for me, so I never brought it up. And throughout the past couple of years, I've meant to bring it up with various 'bonuses' and never have. When I was about to delete the secret sauce folder... I was like "ah fuck it" and rolled with it. Basically just to finally get closure on that dumb, stupid idea I had back then. Is it dumb? Yes. Was it worth it? No. Will I do something stupid like this again in the future? Absolutely.

Anyway, that's about the last of the behind-the-scenes stuff I've got. I don't think there's anything else I haven't really mentioned at this point. I might be forgetting something, but if I am, it wasn't that important.