Just in from Jackerman he said:
**It will easily be at least a few more weeks until MW3, likely later in January. Approximately 1 minute has been completed this month so far, which is quite behind my target.**
In the week after my last MW3 update, my midterm exam grade came out for the only class I’m in (the last class of my bachelors), and I got a 43%. It was one of the lowest grades in the class. I was too busy animating MW3 and didn’t have any time to study. Because of that, I spent about a week learning all of the course material, did the final project for the class in another two days, passed the final, and then fortunately graduated two days later.
This is the end of an era. The entire time I have been doing this job, I have been slowly progressing through an electrical engineering degree with a double minor in math and astrophysics. A few days ago, it all came to a close. Now I have nothing splitting my attention.
All in, there have been about 11 days so far this month where I could barely even touch MW. After graduation, I talked to my landlord again about ending my lease early next year and finally moving to a place I signed for about a month back. She changed her tune from the last time we spoke and told me I need to be out by January 1 if I want to get out of the lease. She explained that she has had trouble leasing it, but now has a new sublet very interested in January.
Now I am moving in the next few days, which will lead directly into Christmas Eve. I will have to take a half day off for both Christmas Eve and Christmas due to family obligations. After that, I will finally be able to grind out the rest of the end of MW3.
This month, just about everything outside of work got in the way, which prevented me from being able to focus on animation, but we really are close. The score is coming together fantastically, and there are now only around two minutes of new animation remaining before the refreshes and fixes on the oldest scene happen. Soon MW3 will be out, and you guys can watch the full 39–40 minute animation. After that, shorts will kick on again fairly soon once MW3 is made public, with nominations likely being opened around six days after the private release of MW3.
Bear with me a little longer and I will get this thing out the door.
On the note of MW3’s ever-shifting dates, I am not removing any unsubbed members until it releases. If you joined up for early access this month, you can stay until it’s out. Again, this entire release date situation has been a complete mess, and I fully own that. There is nothing I can say that will help at this point. I am just going to focus on getting the project out the right way and padding future animations with ample room for complications.
