[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XI

Greetings,

I've taken care of most hiccups following my vacation and I'm back at rendering. At least I'm trying, more down below.

While on vacation I took some time on a few evenings and started working on the layout for the episode following the 'Fomalhaut' update and even sketched some dialogues or at least some topics.

I also did a little bit of work on my sauna environment but it isn't ready yet. But more or less just the modelling of the ceiling and some details are left. Following the modeling I still need to do some geometry baking, UV-unwrapping and prepare the texturing in order to be able to export it Daz and use it there.

The peer review of the dialogue is in progress as well.

As I only rendered a few missing images from scenes that already have been previewed in previous progress updates I thought I might share another photo from my vacation as I'm still amazed by the images of the aurora lights. A shame you don't see them as colorful as this with your own eyes.

Inspired by those photos I will try to recreate them in 3d sometime soon. I'm still happy with the look of the aurora lights I did in earlier releases but I want to improve them or at least give it a try.

Render Speed

Last post I mentioned that my pc broke down and I kind of fixed by cleaning and reassembling it. However, something feels / is off. Render-times are heavily varying, between 15 and 40 mins per shot that used to be stable at 12 - 18 mins. I have no error indications. Neither in the octane plugin nor in gpu-z (a tool to have a more deep insight into the gpu sensors). Both gpu's seem to be on full load and were running. That makes me more suspicious that one of my gpu's not working right any more. I'll do some more analyzing and trying to figure out what might be wrong. Until then I have to work with slower render times it seems :/

What particularly bothers me about it is that I wanted to start rendering the lewd scene anytime soon which always do need more render-time anyway. Therefore I fear this will stack up and increase render-time even more.

Current status

~ 315 rendered and edited images

~ 55% scripting done