I went through his patreon comments and the dev said that he has an animator. the delay was because the first animator left without finishing and he needed time to find another one. At least that's what i understood from it . So we will see in the future if that's the case or not
L&P has made several statements about this. It started with him saying that he had found several highly skilled artists, one of them possibly able to help with scene creation in the future. He also mentioned that he was still missing someone for the "last part", whatever that was supposed to mean. Back then he didn't even tell anyone what the new addition to the game was. A couple weeks later, his first statement was completely over board, and he was apparently working with a single person.
Then came several different statements about the current state of the update, the first missed deadlines and delays. Then another statement where he was talking about the third(!!!) animator working with him. The previous artists apparently either weren't good enough or left him after a week or two. Then came more delays, and more delays, and...yeah, you guessed it, more delays! He even went so far as to say that he couldn't continue with the update as he had to wait for his helper to finish his part, literally blaming his animator for more delays. Kinda weird now that we've all played the update, no? What exactly was the animator doing that L&P couldn't continue working on renders? Every single animation took place in this one classroom with only Aiden/Andre/Jenn being part of it. Nothing we've seen in these animations was in any way connected to any other scene. There was absolutely no reason for L&P not to be able to continue working on the renders for version 0.155. He's somehow managed to start and finish 0.160 within 4 weeks, though. And then these weird comments from L&P on how "every beginning is hard", something nobody would ever say if they had an actual pro creating their animations. Add to that his own efforts on learning how to create animations using Blender, his request on F95 for someone to help him import assets from DAZ to Blender (while apparently having a Blender pro working for him, lmao), and it becomes pretty obvious what's really going on.
I've said it before, but if we were to put all his posts and comments on F95 and his Patreon page next to eachother, the only thing left to do would be to shake our heads in disbelief and maybe a facepalm here and there. This is especially true now that we've actually played the update and everyone can clearly see that many of his statements are questionable, to say the least. And that's me being nice.
Anyway, I'm repeating myself here, but when I see posts like yours I just have to point some things out. Shame on me.