"This is not an April Fool's joke!" This is what I would've said if I uploaded this episode yesterday! Another episode after more than a month! Thanks for making it this far and bearing with me!
This episode is completely new, the longest episode as of yet. I made incremental progress on it every day since the launch of episode 24. Being a completely new episode took extra time, but there was another extra step that could account for half of this lengthy production time: Modeling backgrounds and props!
In weeks between episodes, I posted WIPs and a new chapter of the Travel Logs spin-off! The WIPs also have commentary about the process, and research I did when I was designing props and architecture!
I modeled several backgrounds of the Magical Renegades HQ. There are extra furniture shots so those parts of the backgrounds would make it in and not go to waste! 😅 Hours were spent modeling just that couch and wall clock, and hours were also spent attempting to blend the 3D backgrounds in with the rest of the art. There was trial and error in that.
The good news is for future episodes that take place in the Magical Renegades HQ, the backgrounds will be faster! I have more to model in a room or two for the next episode, but I learned through trial and error which modeling techniques would be more efficient, and which ways would be the best to blend the 3D backgrounds. I haven't mastered the use of Freestyle in Blender, but if I did, that'd be ideal. Chapter 10 of Extra! Chronicles will be next, and the first chapter of the year! There will still be weekly updates on the site and blog.
Renegade Midnight Conductor is a recruiter for the Magical Renegades, a faction of eccentric mages who are opponents to "the Magestablishment" for using a newer, experimental style of magical weaponry that bypasses the Magestablishment's bureaucracy!
She was a time traveler who left the Academy for Time Travel before she graduated, and is now a fugitive. She believed their rules were too limiting, and time travel can be used to set things right.
She went back to 1884 to meet Susana, a human who would become a great historical figure in the events that were to follow. Susana joined the Magical Renegades as Renegade Liberty, and stopped a takeover, but the magic that they promoted fell into the hands of Renegade Midnight Conductor's rival, another rogue time traveler who used power to begin taking over space-time! With one of the four superweapons under her control, this rival would be formidable to any opposition!
The rival caused an incident that left a group of people stranded in 1887, under her rule, in a bizarre anachronistic timeline just as "The Great Power Struggle" is about to happen again! Some of the stranded people are just trying to survive while they wait for space-time to be restored, but others have their eyes on joining one of these factions and see opportunities for heroism, fame, wealth or power ahead!
Follow the tale of the Magical Renegades as they seek more recruits, and try to work together! However, raw power isn't everything. Sometimes, they must think outside of the box even if it means going against commonsense!
Genres: Action/Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Magical girl
Check out the blog and site for extra drawings, stories and commentary! When I can't publish episodes weekly, there are still weekly updates such as WIPs and more supplementary material!
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