Lost all your Confidence - Playblast

Disregard makes a return animating the rooftop intro with this new playlist that shows macro Chloe in her full glory! With the rooftop not being particularly high, Chloe will likely be sitting there leisurely for the first phase of the fight, but that suits her demeanor just right.

I haven’t quite gotten to animating the following scene yet, but I’ll get there in the next couple of days. For the end of the month I should also have another preview for the full animation, which will have the first nom fully rendered and then some! With the first nommy scene out of the way, rendering speed is also slowly increasing! Well, until we get to the next one that is, which is fairly soon.

Small update on the disaster render PC while we’re at it! They've given me a new ETA for SEPTEMBER, as the 24-core Threadripper is now out of stock everywhere due to going EOL. They offered me to upgrade to the 32-core variant for an additional 1.000€, which I was unwilling to spend at this point, so I issued a full refund now. I think after all this back and forth for many months it's best if I just build the PC myself, as I practically have a full blueprint for it already after researching this setup for so long. With the current CPU being out of stock, I think it's best if I wait for July, as AMD recently has already announced the new Threadripper 9000 series to come out then, so fingers crossed they'll sell them at reasonable prices.

Fortunately, my current render rig has been running ”””relatively smooth””” for the recent weeks, so rendering progress wasn’t actually hindered. I’ve tried to streamline the process by also getting a second render license and rendering on my main desktop whenever possible, though it’s getting more and more difficult due to the high summer temperatures. But I guess that also makes working on desert-themed animation a bit more immersive! :D