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WIP 3: Videos progress

Don't worry folks, the game hasn't died just yet.  The characters are as done as they're going to get and we've been busy putting together and rendering videos for the past couple of weeks, in addition to playing a lot of Stardew Valley on my part.

I'd estimate that, at least by sheer numbers, we're about 40% finished with the 'raw' renders of the videos.  There are quite a lot more to go and a bit of post-production to do on all of them, but the project's still chugging along.

Unfortunately, it's taking a lot longer to get these done than I had anticipated.  I've been kept plenty busy in Blender without having touched the code at all for weeks now.  At this pace, I would be amazed if it wasn't at least mid-February by the time it's all finished.

Oh well.  It takes as long as it takes.

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