"We take a look around our hotel room."

...It looks suspiciously identical to Julie's bedroom, and also that room we shared at that party that one time.

I hate this problem. Julie's bedroom has some very distinguishing characteristics, like the desk with things on it and a waterfall picture and stuff. This shot from LLRR shows those things pretty well:

You wouldn't expect to see a computer + computer chair + random desk shit like that in a hotel room.

I've been strongly considering altering her room to make it look more like a hotel room, especially since it doesn't even have a bathroom door. The problem I run into is this:
I wouldn't be able to use old imagery within these scenes if the backgrounds are too different, nor would I be able to use imagery made here in future scenes (which I would like to do).
Not unless I render two versions of every shot I do, and let me tell you - when I'm rendering something that has a sweaty version and a nighttime version and a sweaty nighttime version and 3 other images that are very similar to it that each have their own variants....I hate it.

Do I double all that in order to have two somewhat different backgrounds, or ask everyone to suspend a little more disbelief when I tell you this is a hotel room with the same shit as Julie's bedroom?

You might suggest that I use transparent backgrounds, and then I can slot in whatever I want behind them. Suffice to say, there are basically as many issues with this as doing it the above way, because of how often I change the camera angle (and other reasons, trust me).

Or.
Can I come up with a simpler "abstraction" of Julie's room? Remove the computer stuff and picture, leave the desk, and let little inconsistencies slip through the cracks?

^ This is what I would like to do, but I still want a bathroom door somewhere, and the only good place to put it would be the closet, and two of my favorite Flin x Julie shots totally show the closet. Do I simply hand-wave the bathroom, and say that they step out of it even when there's no place they could have done so?

These are the kinds of stupid questions that plague me when I start to care too much. Part of why I love keeping my standards kinda low in some areas (black backgrounds, simple art style) is that it makes cutting corners like this feel much less jarring when I do so. And as much as I hate to say it, cutting corners is a very important thing to learn how to do.

Hmm, maybe I can say that the hotel room has a sort of "boot room" with a bathroom adjoining it? Kinda weird, but I've seen college dorms that were set up that way.
Yes, I'm thinking out loud while writing a Patreon post. IT'S ALL PART OF THE PROCESS, MAN.

Fuck it, I think I'll do that. Simplify the room a little, say that there's an adjoining entryway room with the bathroom. Everything else can stay the same.

THE END.