Chun Li vs Mai HAS FINISHED FILMING!! Coming out May 25th! (Patreon)
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Hello Everyone! I have some very exciting news! As of Yesterday, Chun Li vs Mai has Wrapped Filming!!! The Release Date will be the 25th of this Month! I hope everyone is excited, because this is easily the most incredible piece of animation, I've ever produced.....and that's saying something.... The Whole Project is around 12,156 and it's not an exaggeration to say I had to animate each one. The Total Runtime is about 7 MINUTES LONG! I can't express how much focus, time, effort, and passion goes into these things.
It's always fun watching it live with you guys, but I notice the quality isn't always the best during the premiere. I understand anyone who wants to wait for the video to process! Either way, if you can tune in Live! Saturday at 12:00pm EST is when this project will hit YouTube, I'd love to watch it with you.
I'm gonna be honest, this project really took a lot out of me, as all of my work does...I might need a little bit of time just to mentally process, that this is finally over.
I start to get a bit defensive in the days coming up to a big release, but there are just a lot of emotions I need to grapple with, as I prepare to make hundreds of hours of my time and effort open to the public.
Let me just establish a couple of things quickly.
I'll reiterate.... I don't know a ton about Chun Li or Mai, I came into this project with no skin in the game, no bias, I just wanted to make a Beautiful, Kung Fu, Ninja Catfight, because I don't think there are a lot. I think my broader audience might be forgetting how rare they are becoming.
I came into this just as an artist trying to tell a story, that's it. Although I think this is the highest quality animation between these two that's ever been made, this is all still one person's vision. I do my best to represent all of us, but the comments I've gotten have been....sadly....discouraging. I've heard so many comments. I want "Mai to Win, I want them to be naked, I want this ending! I want this, I'd prefer that." Its exhausting to deal with so much discourse, and I love you guys, but sometimes It really becomes overwhelming....
In the 12 years since their famous death battle, I haven't seen anything come close to this level of quality, depicting a match between them. Don't forget how far we've come.
People have asked me to do this match up for years, and I never thought I actually would make it. I thought it was too polarizing, and I don't really care for such divisive match ups. But then, I remembered what my mission statement was. To give these amazing fight sequences to iconic female characters that never had them. Mai and Chun Li have had a long lasting rivalry, and although I didn't feel worthy in making it, I thought it was my responsibility to at least try.
Soon, we'll be able to AI Generate anything from our imagination, and I think screens will be meaningless...the concept of animating something frame by frame will be completely alien. So just enjoy the time someone put into this as we quickly approach the brink of no return.
Please Enjoy.