So the update is not going to happen?
If an update does ever happen, it won't be any time soon. It was pretty obvious when Gumdrop said that fatcat will have the animations done before he leaves for the military, that the animations will in fact not be done by that time. And now with gumdrop saying this:
He is basically confirming that the animations will not be done before fatcat leaves and that he will have to get another animator to finish them. So ya, if (and that's a big if) an update does ever come, don't expect it for at least 3-6 months.
However, I still doubt an update is going to come, because common sense tells you that if you've supposedly been working on an update since March 2018, and if since at least December 2018 the only work left to be finished was animations that your animations would be done by now, they don't take over a year to create.
Common sense tells you that if an animator was taking over a year to create animations, and his failure to create them has lead to multiple missed deadlines over the past year than that animator is incompetent.
Common sense tells you that a developer would just get a new animator rather than wait over a year for an incompetent animator to finish animations. Gumdrop never did that though, instead he stuck with fatcat, because he is not trying to develop a game here, he is trying to scam people. And more likely than not Fatcat hasn't even been working on animations for gumdrop over this past year and fatcat has just been a good scapegoat/excuse for gumdrop to use to keep the scam going. Well, blaming fatcat for failing isn't really a good excuse, since normal rational people would eventually start to say "get a new animator rather than wait over year for an animator who keeps missing deadlines", but gumdrops supporters aren't normal rational people, they're naive, delusional, idiots. Gumdrop could tell give them any excuse and they'd still give him money.