The problem right now is that Sum is too comfortable and he decided to change to blender, after starting a major project (mk9-p2). A patreon said in his discord that Sum stopped with mk9-2 to learn Blender and while none of the ported posts on yiff confirm that, there hasn't been a single preview or substantial mention of said project.
While there has been setbacks (health problems, loved one got really sick, a couple quarantine issues, etc) that one can believe and understand, I don't think for a second that Sum really treats this as his job (something that Sum himself has said on more than one ocassion) or he's just too lax about it.
NW2 was overall great IMO, but it took one whole year, had the animations done before coming up with a story, didn't start getting voice acting before hand and while I know how much of a pain it can be animating even in SFM, I think a couple years of experience and it being your job and all could get things done fairly quickly. The released project was 40+ minutes of still images with text boxes that came up with vague excuses as to why was a kid fucking several women (only one making some sense being Kirsty's part) and 23min of actual animation that thankfully wasn't too dark and most of the time had good angles.
Now, it was months before Sum even said something about story drafts for mk9-2, without any previews and I bet he has more interest in getting to learn Blender and start over than continuing the project in SFM. If those that have been giving him money for the last 7 months only to get 3 good shorts are okay with his pace, then I don't see any changes happening soon or ever.
While there has been setbacks (health problems, loved one got really sick, a couple quarantine issues, etc) that one can believe and understand, I don't think for a second that Sum really treats this as his job (something that Sum himself has said on more than one ocassion) or he's just too lax about it.
NW2 was overall great IMO, but it took one whole year, had the animations done before coming up with a story, didn't start getting voice acting before hand and while I know how much of a pain it can be animating even in SFM, I think a couple years of experience and it being your job and all could get things done fairly quickly. The released project was 40+ minutes of still images with text boxes that came up with vague excuses as to why was a kid fucking several women (only one making some sense being Kirsty's part) and 23min of actual animation that thankfully wasn't too dark and most of the time had good angles.
Now, it was months before Sum even said something about story drafts for mk9-2, without any previews and I bet he has more interest in getting to learn Blender and start over than continuing the project in SFM. If those that have been giving him money for the last 7 months only to get 3 good shorts are okay with his pace, then I don't see any changes happening soon or ever.