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Encounter 3 - September Preview (4k)

Added 2025-10-01 16:57:22 +0000 UTC

TGS 2025 is officially over and I'm back home, finally concluding this year's travel obligations for me for some proper settling.

This month was quite a bit wild as I mainly worked from my laptop and remoted into the newly finished render PC, which (thankfully, at long last) worked like a charm! I still need to check with Alex if he managed to complete the last shot yet, but I think it's almost safe to say that all animation for the first part is nearly completed. This new preview extends the current Encounter 3 Preview by another minute, making it 9 minutes of rendered material, with almost two minutes left to be rendered.

MEGA 4K: Link
Youtube 4K: Link

MEGA 1080p: Link
Youtube 1080p: Link

The goal for October is to essentially focus on finalizing the remaining scenes and get part 1 completed. Once I received the project files with the added last shots from Alex, I'll go in and polish the start of the battle sequences and set it up for rendering. Then once these sequences are rendering, I'll see if I can get back to post-production work, as there's still a good bit of work to be done cleaning and polishing everything past the second part of the meeting. There's also a pretty big blooper in the last two shots of this preview, which were accidentally rendered out without skylight, as the skylight was somehow put onto a deactivated layer before I started rendering, which was difficult to notice due to the remote connection. Either way, the scene is already re-rendering as I'm typing this. It's likely the next preview will just be a bunch more render previews, so stay tuned! Here's hoping part 1 will be fully rendered by the end of the month!