Diminishment Ch1 - Pt1, Playblast 02

Additional update: Progress is... not optimal, I'll post an update (playblast) by the end of Friday/Saturday morning, regardless whether the animation phase is done or not.

I'll post Test renders as soon as the scene is ready for rendering, followed by the earlier mentioned WIP Unity scene. I'll avoid giving exact estimates for now, as I can't seem to meet them anyway! But I doubt It'll go too much over the initial ones I gave.

Sorry for the constant delays! I'll try to pull myself together T-T

Quick update: The final playblast of the event should be posted in a few days, after the animation phase is finished, I still have a couple days of work left with that. Followed by test renders a few days after and the unrendered(no audio) WIP version of the scene a day or two after that. (All of that should hopefully happen this week.)

The finished version of the scene will likely be out some time on the first week of October, but I'll specify it a bit more once I've started rendering.

I'll keep you posted in case anything changes.

Here's some more progress! I'll keep the header images relatively spoiler friendly, in case some want to be surprised.

Lucy's WIP folder (SPOILERS)

As you can see, the animation phase is not "quite" ready yet. Hopefully I'll get it all done before the end of next week But I'll have to step up the pace a bit.

This one has a slightly wider FOV than before, although by accident. Just noticed it. I'll have to see what works best, I like that it lets us see more of Lucy in the shots, but I don't really enjoy the distortions that happen due to it. The sense of scale also slightly takes a hit in my opinion.

I did some minor modifications to the beginning as well, clarifying the shrinking process a bit more, although the whole thing is still pretty chaotic, since there's so many things happening at the same time, I might break it up a bit, but we'll see. It'll be one of the last things I fix, if I "fix" it. And with luck having the bump maps and what not from rendering should help a bit when you can see the detail in the candy growing in size.

I've been having a bit trouble getting in contact with a couple VA's, but hopefully one of them will reply, if not, I'll probably use Hestia's voices for this one, with a slightly higher pitch increase than usual to fit the character's look a bit better. Or try to find an additional one. There's at least one that I've been meaning to get in contact with.

Anyway, that's all for now! I'll do the next update once I have the WIP videos working inside unity. Or if it ends up taking a lot more time to animate the remaining stuff than expected, I'll post some more progress previews... But hopefully not, I'd really like to get this rendering by next Monday. I'll set up the renders before preparing the unity scene however, since I can do that while the scene is rendering, so it¨'s better to prioritize the renders instead of the unity scene. I'd estimate next update to be around the 22nd-25th.

I'm still aiming to get the first event out with audio and all before the end of the month, but I'll let you know what the status is during the final week of the month.