July 2021 Newsletter · 6:01pm Jul 1st, 2021
Happy July!
For starters, a large portion of my June fandom work was on audiobook stuff I can't publish yet.
Revelation Into Mercury
I have decided I will most likely do another audiobook project for another arc of The Master Mev. This arc will cover Chapters 12-20 and be referred to as the "Revelation Into Mercury" arc. This time around, I want to get as much done on my narration side of things as I can before bringing in other actors. While this approach will slow things down, I think it is for the best. It may speed things up in the end since the actors won't have to wait on me as long for retake requests.
I have mostly been working on Chapter 12, and I'm really quite pleased with how it's coming along. Something I tried out was saving the character voices (my own solo draft for now) for later. This worked fine for someone like Luna who only has a couple of lines. It turned out far more daunting and taxing for Rainbow Dash. So, next round, I'll try to do the character voices as I go. I'm doing all this to create director examples for the actors later.
Utaan 42
I can't say much for this one because of its early stages, but it's the other audiobook project I'm working on, solo for now. I haven't asked the author yet, but I hope to do so when I have more done.
Project Dashcord
One day, I want to do an animation sequence of Rainbow Dash turning into her draconequis monster form in the Austraeoh series. This is related to my Utaan 42 audiobook project since the chapter is the inspiration for wanting to do the sequence. The sequence won't follow how it goes in the chapter exactly though.
This project seems to have stalled for now since I'm taking the time to learn about 3D modeling in general first. Plus, more of my focus is on the audiobook end of things lately. Nonetheless, here is some stuff that I only posted in the Ofolrodi Discord chat:
And this one only in my own Discord chat:
Model credits:
https://www.deviantart.com/juicedane/art/SFM-DL-Enhanced-Overhaul-Ponies-6-of-6-581336888
https://www.deviantart.com/stefano96/art/DL-Enhanced-female-ponies-649617182
https://www.deviantart.com/aeridiccore/art/DL-Discord-Overhaul-619137723
Writing
I have tried editing my later chapters of TMM, but it's quite slow compared to all of the above. There's another untitled project in the works that is in very early stages as I argue with myself on if I want to do a long, Rainbow Dash adventure story inspired by the likes of Austraeoh and Harmony Theory, a Rainbow Dash and Daybreaker story, or figure out how to combine these ideas.
TMM Chapter 12 text will be edited very soon. I have all my updates done, mainly just want to listen to the whole thing one more time before finalizing and publishing the text changes.
Closing
So, there you have it. It looks like there's not much output this past month, but it is not a lack of interest or effort. It's just that my current state of all these projects is taking time.
