Schedule update

RELEASE SCHEDULE

1. CT 42 Ext3 Teaser - April 24

2. Cheap Tricks 42 Extension 3 - EARLY ACCESS - April 26

3. Business Cover 4K Spicy Set 4 - April 28

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IN THE WORKS (no final ETA)

• Vetorama (Vertical Panorama Bonus) - April (probably)
There are tests to be done before final delivery, let's hope it works the way intended.

• Patrons Request/Next Bonus Render set (no theme yet) - May 3  
Reviewing the requests and see what works better, there are a lot of tasty ones. 

• Cheap Tricks 42 Extension 4 - May
Testing stuff, not sure if making a 5th extension. Once it is decided the "last extension" may be delayed it a bit to proofread and deliver the "Final Product"

• Business Cover Extra render - oh hold - rendered but not revised

• Mega Eden - on hold - more renders plus an extension

• Catwalk scene - On hold - draft

• Volley Story - On hold -  draft

• Giantess Dream 4 - On drafts - One new scene assembled for it, I have to edit the daft of the first scene because plot.

• Domina's Valley 29 - Drafts almost done - depends on plot: I have all the models but don't have all she skin and scenes converted to iRay, I must test stuff and set the GD part because it has at least 2 scenes before this chapter to happen.

• Cheap Tricks Remakes - on hold

• Giantess Dream Non-Canonical Adventures Chapter 1- Draft - one adventure featuring characters from my universe, focused exclusively on fun and growth (or shrink or anything else that looks fun).

• Giantess Dream NCA Chapter 2 - draft/has part of the models - Fantasy/sci-fy adventure, needs some study but I did some tests about it, this idea has been on my mind for years and it is finally maturing!
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BEHIND THE SCENES (BTS)

1. Convert the texture of the characters to iRay - no ETA - Will do slowly - 24% done (175 base models total, including versions of characters)

2. Convert the scenes to iRay - No ETA - ??% - will do slowly - I have too much scenes in my folders, couldn't count it exactly

3. Being able to work with the render engine iRay "freely" about 95% - still learning and fine tuning, but I'm confortable working with it already

4. Boring Sad Maintenance - 50% - ongoing, it is never 100% but I set a good foot at it back in the day and this weekend I did some more.

5. Complete the scripts for the universes integration - This is a tricky one... I've been very absorbed into making renders and dealing with iRay, I need to make a full stop one of these days and set it, so I can finish the first season of Giantess Dream and increase the pace of releases.

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THE TALK

Cheap Tricks 42 (and its extensions) is being an awesome experiment at iRay.

I think I'm finally getting how to work with it despite the fact I need to do some heavy edits in some skins and surfaces textures, but lights are easier to deal with, I don't suffer for fixing it anymore, and am getting used to fixing the shaders (the way the texture behaves in a surface) to work in the physical based light system.

For CT 42 to happen I had to invest a lot of time prior, at the end of March I was sure I wasn't capable of keeping the "about one chapter per month + 1 extra render set + bonus renders" schedule, turns out a lot of things happened and I'm FINALLY getting some good pace working at it (At first I had to work extra, I should be resting more, lol).

Not promising releases will come faster yet, there's a lot to be done yet, but if you've seen in my Discord I've been pushing HARD the skin conversions, something necessary to make scenes to happen fast as soon I have an Idea or finished draft. An example of how this can make my work faster os slower is that Phoebe had 7 presets in skin, Jessica 6, Audrey 3... all that during the making of this chapter, and that made me render it al at least 3 times.

Other example are scenes like the Magazine photoshoot that should have some more fun, but Mika's skin and his Camera were not ready His skin I edited yesterday, full skin tone edit, a thing that most of the characters are getting as soon I find their skin working weird at internal or external light.

The next extension of Cheap Tricks will come with one of the scenes I had planned but couldn't make because I was having problems with lights and skins, I will post the teaser soon.

Thanks for your support :D