Published: May 6th 2024, 4:18:40 pm
Hello! Another little update on Fischl! ٩(｡•`◡´•｡)۶
Since the last update we filled in the rest of our scenes with the missing bits of audio and finally had a chance to take a whole day and review it from start to finish. It's quite a task reviewing this much footage at once ( X ω X)
With the review done we came up with some items we need to address before it's polished and release ready. Rii did a really great job on the voice, there's just a few spots we want to give a little more feeling to so they have the impact they deserve. We'll have some retakes, do some blending, and hopefully minimal do-overs to finish those parts. A certain Fox is going to have a lot of voice level balancing to do too...
SFX are mostly done too. A few unique sounds we decided we wanted to replace, and they're important parts so we had to go hunting for some good sounds. That part is never as easy as we hope (T ^ T )ゞ But we spent most of a day on that and had some progress on some of those sounds. We also had two different "styles" of SFX for some of the penetration sounds, ultimately they just didn't mix well so we have to redo the parts with the new style to match the old style. We still have some other SFX to hunt down to replace a few spots too.
We have a few little ideas for improving the ambience as well. We put together some tracks for it and will have to review again to see if it works out the way we hope. It should sound really nice if it does (｡> ‿ ◕｡)
The audio editing at this point is basically a one person job though (and Rii's recordings of course). Too many cooks had its challenges we found. You can guess who will be working on that still /ᐠ. ̫ .ᐟ\ But that will leave Shuro and Neko free to make some progress on Melody still.
Speaking of Melody...
It will take a little time to finish revising and re-recording some audio for Fischl but we really don't like having so much time between posts. As promised we aren't doing any further WIPs for Fischl, but like everything else in this project it took more time than expected. As people do, we sometimes look at what's left and think "how hard could it be?" It always turns out there are some gremlins lurking underfoot that we didn't expect. And even when something is easy, sometimes it's still a massive time sink to actually do. But we want to keep you all informed and entertained regardless.
So we decided to ask all of you what you would like to see in the mean time while that Fox finishes the audio. If you want, we'd be happy to start polishing and posting the first WIPs for Melody so you have something fun to hold you over for now. If not, we can still try to give some little updates on Fischl periodically like these last couple posts. Then we'll save Melody posts for after Fischls release. We were originally hoping to save Melody for later so you could just enjoy Fischl and then enjoy the hype for Melody as something fun and new after. Double posting projects can be a little distracting and we want both of them to feel special with each update.
But in the end we leave it up to you. We know the wait is unbearable (trust me, I've been living in a cave doing audio work for 2 almost nonstop months and can't wait to finish /ᐠ. ̫ .ᐟ\). So if you want a bit of Melody to spice things up we're happy to do that. Or it can wait, and we'll just give you some updates still on Fischl.
Either way, we're just excited to be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and to be able to share Fischl when it's all finished! ❤️(˵^ ω ^˵)❤️