Reward Update - Renders Finished

So, this took MUCH longer than I wanted, and I technically have a few touch up things to do (See that white on the table in the background? For some reason the object didn't load the texture right in several of the god-awful-long renders. Thankfully, it's something easily fixed without having to re-render, since it's the only thing in those scenes that is that color), but I have all 22 renders done for the month's reward.

This update fought me every single step of the way, mostly because one of the new assets I used (the Stable Mistress's hair) has a hideously high render time. So high that it actually threatened to melt a few of the components of my system (literally, my hardware temp monitoring software started screaming bloody murder and I had to stop and figure out how to keep my PC cooler. This now involves some very stupid and ugly jury-rigging that makes me cringe, but it works). 

Unfortunately, by the time I realized it was the hair causing the issue, I'd already done a number of renders and was committed to using it. As such, you'll notice that I carefully aimed the camera in many of the later renders in such a way that I either didn't have to render the hair at all, or only 40-50% of it (the latter being the case with the attached render). 

Also unfortunately, these renders sucked up so much more time than I thought they would, that I ended up having to halt all work on the The Cosplay Cafe art for several days, as I use the same PC for rendering,  drawing, and my freelance work. Since I was having to solely use the PC for rendering at any time I wasn't working my day job, I had to temporarily halt work in Cosplay Cafe in order to try and get this month's reward out on time.

The good news, however, is that I'm pretty sure I actually AM going to get it out on time, despite the numerous, frustrating, delays. Unless I encounter a major problem either with the error fixing on the renders I mentioned, or with the coding/writing, or some other disaster strikes, I should be able to get the update out by the end of the month. 

Also goodish, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to wrap up at least one more image for the new game before the end of the month, since I was about 90% done with it when I had to call a halt to working on it temporarily. I still have a few things to figure out with it, but hopefully you'll be seeing it in the next few days, along with a few relevant notes on development!