ALEXANDER PERFILYEV

Bad News!

Added 2023-09-27 16:47:36 +0000 UTC

Short version: Internal SSD lagged out and cleared my Blender folder thus setting my Berserk animation back. Now I am doing a belated backup of everything that I still have and plan to rebuilding the rest. I had a full on Ryan Gosling freaking out in Blade Runner 2 bit but I think I know what I must do now. I apologize for this being continuously delayed. I never expected specifically this turn of events to happen but I should've backed up more often. Admitting this is embarrassing considering the volume of work.

I plan to take a break by storyboarding some of THLMR finale and soon after return to re-animating (haha) my Berserk animation.

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A bit more in detail and color: I haven't backed up since a few months ago because my only external drive malfunctioned (Uluncha recovered it but I mistakenly neglected it) and for awhile I couldn't pay for my Google Drive so excuses to not backup amassed. I was dead set on releasing LC2 on Saturday. As yeseterday and the day before yesterday I was working on this animation. I stood up from my PC and went to excercise, returned to it and was like "Hey, Uluncha, check this out, I added the 3D bug feet you made to this scene" and After Effects (in which I video edit everything) gave out a list of missing files so big, I couldn't close it because it wasn't able to show me the 'Close' button. I clicked on the 'Blendah' folder and it was empty. Folder still there, but nothing in it.

I draw a lot in Clip Studio paint, specially frame by frame animations but I also draw 2D in 3D spaces in Blender (as you know by now). Internal SSD+most often overwritten folder+continiously running out of space="I deleted your files for you, Chief and put some random win local stuff in em". Not literally, as a more IT savvy relative explained, it's about corrupting memory "tables" and filling up "new" and "empty" spaces with temp stuff. Recovery tools confirmed the deletion and couldn't recover anything to a usable state.

I worked on this thing for more than a year now. I can not let it be unfinished.