1st, I updated link post with the 7.4 links and also added secondary links because we hit bandwidth limits again.
2nd. Wtf!
So very quickly I realized that this was going to take while, First animation I rendered was for Alex, It was the initial.. you know.. And it was 360 frames at 30fps.
So I tried 720 @ 30fps and 1080 at 15fps.
Didn't really like either one, a couple of those were at 720 as I did not want to spend another few days rendering those at 1080 considering I already spent 3 days just on the 720 render.
Had no idea how long it was all going to take all together, just kept telling myself another week, another week, another week. and I just sat here, non stop, for 80 days, one instance spending days on animation renders, while I rendered stills in another instance.
I even had 2 requests for commissions that I wasn't able to do because I wasn't going to stop until that was all done.
The feed back I have received on the animations have been positive, on the Alex scene, Ava and Kayla not so much but it was just because it was dark. Which I knew it was dark, didn't think it was that dark though, maybe I keep my monitors to bright. (I also really didn't think about mobile in that...) So lesson learned on the dark scenes, I'll see if I can brighten those a bit and update them.
I plan on having a small update early next week, just cleaning up, making sure day 7 is done done, finish the replay screen, and update it for day 7.
I also do need to update with different compression on day 7 images, and I want to try to find a better compression for video for pc and mac because I really hate the artifacting caused by webm, really hard to tell those animations are rendered at the same quality as the stills, but I do have to keep webm on mobile because of size.
The above image is from day 8, I am working on those, and as I am pushing out any updates for the completion of day 7, any completed day 8 scenes will be part of the update, but I won't tag anything with a day 8 versioning until I have at least half the day done.
I will let every one know on each update if there is day 8 content.
Michel Paquette
2024-11-23 10:38:06 +0000 UTCHotRod1227
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