Just for the future: I realize the need to feel like you're putting something out
RowanPG but "Extra Content" releases are something that should happen after Chapter 3, not Chapter 1. People want the story to move forward more than they want fun extras.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. I see where you are coming from, you want the story to move forward before extra stuff. In this instance, extra content releases are for higher-tier patrons, and it was something that should have/will be released concurrently with normal game updates. So this was something that I owed them, and these images ended up taking way longer than I thought they would. Several of these images were taking 2+hrs to render after optimizing the scene; other factors were in there too but that was by far the biggest reason. Then it becomes a judgment call of do I take 2 or 3 days to try and work out why these certain images are taking so long. Anyway, I'm starting to digress here, in this instance, it was something that I owed them and I tried to get out as quickly as possible.
On the topic of extra stuff, from my perspective, I see extra stuff, aka standalone releases, as a way for me to have the feeling that I'm working on a separate project while I'm technically not. Whether you're in college studying one subject or working on projects for your career, there's a lot of psychology articles that say it's not productive to focus all of your time on one subject for an extended period of time. I agree with this, it gets to be very mentally taxing, at least that's been my experience. So in theory standalone releases being very short, extra stuff, are a good way for me to alter my focus, for a small time, from the main story without starting a completely separate and unrelated project plus there is the added benefit of you guys getting stuff you wouldn't have necessarily gotten otherwise. I really do appreciate the feedback and I appreciate seeing your perspective on it.