_Artemis Development Log

Happy Monday!

What a week it's been. I've been hammering away at the story renders and glad to say they're finally rendered! As I was processing the previous renders, I noticed there was a 30 shot gap. So I threw those into queue and got them rendered out this week. Placing Chapter 2 at a total of 3,018 story renders. There may be more as I expect to add some shots where I feel a certain piece of dialogue needs it. Sometimes a piece of dialogue needs those specific renders. CH1 had a scene where 4 renders slipped through the cracks and weren't added. This dramatically shifted the tone of the scene for many, although I felt the one expression may have gotten the point across. However, I was wrong and several took this particular scene the wrong way. So, I'll be adding shots I feel are necessary as I continue arranging the renders in the code. However, I'm not talking about hundreds of additional renders. And there may be no additional needed at all.

But now that the story renders are completed for the most part, I'll be shifting focus on wrapping up the remaining animations. Now that my main PC is freed up, I can double the rendering efforts so they can be completed faster. I'll also be going through the soundtrack this week. With 26 scenes in CH2. That's 26 new licensed tracks at the least. I'm doing something new with the playlist this chapter, so the amount of music will be doubled or tripled  that number. I'll also be working on better compression while maintaining the quality best I can. CH1 featured about 70ish tracks, which added about 400MB to the file size alone. I'll do my best to bring the number down as much as I can. I'm also still making minor tweaks to some of the dialogue. Also the script will be going through a proofreader, so we can expect much less spelling/grammar errors this time! 

Have a great rest of your week, everyone!

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