The results are in, and it was actually closer than I think some people might assume.

For a long time, they were all within spitting distance of one another in terms of points, but Chun-Li did eventually pull ahead and cement the victory. Regardless, like before, Xiahou Ji and Nina will both be added to a future 'Loser Poll', where four losing characters battle it out for a second chance. Winner gets two animations, 2nd and 3rd place get one. Only one will not get something. So something to look forward to, I suppose.

Beyond that, not much to say. Was on 'break' since Yukari did take a bit out of me, but I have started on the next set, so hopefully that will be done by next week. Not gonna be anything huge like the Yukari set, but it'll still be nice I think.

gofile - https://gofile.io/d/JYjIRi
gofile(poll animations) - https://gofile.io/d/sJF9Gr

A combination post, since I didn't feel like making two. First off, Yukari animations. I went a little wild with these, since Persona is ripe with scenarios to be used. I could have easily come up with several more possible settings/situations to be done with Yukari alone, but I held off since I was already going overboard. This is just my first real foray into Persona, so I was extra motivated. Yukari is a good 'entry point', honestly. I was always waffling with who should be first, so once I settled on her it was like taking off the training weights and getting a speed boost so to speak. I will say that these are rendered in 4k, mostly by accident. Anime stuff renders pretty quick, so I didn't notice I was rendering at 4k until about seven renders deep and at that point I was just like 'well, might as well'.

As for what comes next... not sure. I finished these and have been kind of brain dead, so I'm gonna take a small break in terms of regular releases to sort of recharge and figure out what I want to work on next. It won't be more Persona, since I don't want to flood too much of one thing, but I'd like to do more Persona this year. But I've got a lot of things I'd like to do this year that I probably won't be able to get to, so I'm just taking things one thing at a time.

For the poll, the winner is...

Jihl. The results are as follows.

Going into this poll, I expected Ifalna to win. And she almost did, at least in terms of pure number of votes. But she lost by quite the margin when it comes to total points. How the cookie crumbles sometimes. At the very least, Ifalna will be guaranteed an animation from the Loser poll. Since, let's be real here. Gladiolus has no chance. He did get more votes than I expected(5 more than my proposed 8), but unless more people jump aboard the troll train in favor of Kyrie, Lulu, and Ifalna, I can't see him getting enough to get third place. So there's that. The FF Loser poll will probably be in July, though. Since next month will be a DOA poll, then the following will be the FF loser poll.

Anyway, that's about all I've got for today. Poll will also be slightly delayed(just a couple days) since the first poll was delayed, and I need some time to whip up some Jihl stuff, AND rig the three characters for the upcoming poll. It's a bit of a doozy. I'm actually not sure who will win this one, since it's probably gonna be a 1v1 in the end but I'm not sure which of the two will prevail. Though, for all I know the third character will be the dark horse and win. Life is funny like that, sometimes.

This is just a small interim post just to reiterate that the poll post won't be going live tomorrow. If all goes to plan, I'll have it posted by the 3rd, ideally. Just been distracted with working on the next set. It'll be a fairly beefy one, as I was randomly inspired to work on a specific someone. Eagle-eyed viewers(or rather, people who know the character) will be able to tell just based on the silhouette, but I'll go ahead and tell everyone who it is. This will be my first real foray into Persona, starting with the Lovers Arcana of Persona 3. Yukari. Which might come as a surprise, since I've mentioned before that I feel Mitsuru is best Persona girl. And even Aigis is second place in P3 for me. But Yukari is pretty hot, and since I'm not as attached to her, I feel more comfortable doing something with her by comparison. I want Mitsuru's animations to be perfect, which I can't do since nothing is perfect, so I'm just working my way up to her right now.

Still, Yukari will hopefully just be the tip of the iceberg. I've long planned to get around to Persona, and there's a lot of other characters I'd like to get to from 3, as well as the other games, so hopefully this will be the turning point where I can actually get around to doing that. I know I've had a lot of people ask me for them in the past, so hopefully this will be wroth the wait.

Lastly, I'll go ahead and reveal the poll characters, just so you know what to expect. I haven't actually previewed them in recent times, mostly just due to laziness.

This isn't April Fool's. I mentioned last time that I added everyone from the Maiden series to the possible pool for FF, and I wasn't joking. Big G is back, ready to lose. Because let's be real here, he's gonna get eight votes at max, and 80% of them will be ironic/troll votes. I don't even need to include him here, really, but I figured I wouldn't veto him. After all, when I get around to the FF Losers poll, the super loser will just be him, so the worthwhile characters will get an animation instead of one missing out on it. Works out for the best.

gofile - https://gofile.io/d/QVc6Fm

May seem like a rather odd character this time, but I've been meaning to do 21O for a while. Nothing fancy, since I mainly plan for Commander to be the next big one from Nier. Just wanted to do something in the interim for a 'filler' sort of thing. Since I'm still not 100% and can find myself struggling to animate at any random moment due to a shift in mood. 

Also, the first poll of the month may be delayed slightly, since I've been focusing on the next pack since I have actual motivation to work on it at the moment so I'm trying to ride the way until it calms down. Just a heads up.