A relatively decent sized update

Hey there. Bikki here, giving you updates about the progress of DD and MS! First and foremost,

MIDNIGHT SUGAR

episode two & special

Alright. After about a month of waiting, I've finally gotten ALL of the lines for Midnight Sugar: episode 2, EXCEPT Ritsuka and two extras. These three are only present in a few scenes, though, and I will be able to start mixing in their absence. I am hoping for a release sometime this week, probably closer to Thursday or Friday. I will not start mixing tonight, because I have a paper to finish up. I'm hoping to start tomorrow or Tuesday. This guess is of course assuming I have those last three sets of lines. I should have two of them by tomorrow or Tuesday, and Ritsuka is the only one I'm really worried about.

So, look for Midnight Sugar: Episode Two sometime by the end of this week!

Assuming this release schedule, we will be in season one officially by early to mid february. Why? Well, we've decided to go ahead and do a Midnight Sugar Christmas Special! At the rate we're going right now, episode three would be released sometime around Christmas. I rather love the holidays, so I would really like to do some type of Christmasy MS thing in the episode, but because of the timeframe in MS right now (it's early to mid Autumn) it wouldn't work well with the main storyline. So, after having an idea pop into my head and lots of "yes!" about the possibility of a special, I've decided to go ahead and do that BEFORE we release episode three. This will push Episode three's release date to sometime in January. It's kind of sad the schedule was thrown off, but I think a Christmas special will be cute, and will give us more time with Miho and Momo before we dive into season one which is a heavy focus on Chiharu.

In any case, look forward to that sometime before Christmas! I'll update again with episode two!

Now, for some

Dengeki Daisy

Alright. In my last post I posted up our cast list, which was some pretty big news.

Right now, though I've got some even bigger news! The lovely MJsisters (MJsistersx3

on youtube) have agreed to help us animate! We've got a pretty great animation staff

shaping up so far, though we have lost one colorist (bringing us down to one.) but I'm

still a bit unsure as to how it'll all play out! I'm hoping that these wonderful animators

can help me in terms of animation direction, because I have no idea what I'm doing in

that department. Hopefully, they will lead the animation team with me just being the

head honcho who only has to say "Yes" or "No" (beyond all the audio work, of course.

that's still all on me!)

Originally, I had asked the MJSisters alone to do the animation work, and I feel that this

will be WAY too much work for one (or two) people to do on their own, so I'm really hoping

this works out with them leading!

Our DD production staff, as of right now:

ANIMATORS

The MJSisters

Riceball (? Have yet to actually talk to this person)

~xXLittlexGurlXx~

Ichigo M

Apple

COLORISTS

Crii

PHOTOSHOPPERS

Crii

Bikki

(Anyone else who wishes)

If you would like to be a part, again, let me know. We need everything.

To all of our animators, I would like to have a massive skype meeting as soon as possible.

The animation will not start until the audio is completely mixed, but the opening and

ending theme animation videos can be started. We have all of our cast and staff, so the

credits will be able to be added in.

I want to have this meeting to determine how sections will be split up to be animated

and how we will animate them. It is very important that we discuss this!

If you want to see an example of the MJSisters' work, look them up on youtube

at http://www.youtube.com/user/MJsistersX3 .

Also, audio mixing on DD will be able to start soon. I already have all of Teru's

lines, which are the most important, as well as a few extras. As soon as I get

a few key characters' lines for different scenes, I will start to mix each scene!

That's it for me. Phew, that seems like a lot! Till next time!

- Bikki