MarvellousLunatic

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XXI

Greetings,

I've continued to work on the last scene and I'm more than half way through I think. The most time consuming at the moment is posing the animations in order to prevent clipping and jittering. I had more poses for animations planed, but I may skip a few to not pro long the update cycle even more. However, I still underestimated the time I need for the last scene and the animations and presumable need a bit more time, sorry.

The preview image is a bit random, as I don't w...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Poll - 4K Render Reward

Greetings,

it's time for the poll for the topic of the 4K Render reward for this update cycle. Yet again it will be 3 topics to choose from.

Blade Runner 2049 (Pia)

A recreation of the iconic shot where Officer K (which will be Elios) stands on the bridge in front of the giant hologram (which will be Pia). Challenge will be to recreate the color-scheme, mood and volumetric lighting.

Giant Goddess (Sany)

A giant Sany dressed as G...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XX

Greetings,

first of I want to wish you all a happy new year. On the project side I underestimated the workload that I need to do for the last scene and therefore I doubt there will be an alpha version even within the next week. But that's why I make no promises or release dates. I just had a bad week, family/private-wise and as usually I caught a cold or a flu at our family gatherings and I've been out for a couple of days. I did a chunk on the render front for the last scene, but less ...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XIX

Greetings,

the update is slowly approaching the finishing line. I'm on the last scene now. I don't think I'll be able to make an alpha release build this week. For this the scene is to long. But I'm pretty sure early in January I'll have a build ready. 

As I don't want to show any bigger spoilers I'll just show one of a few new options for the hacking game. Sorry for the short update. Next time will be a bit longer again and I'll take care that I'll have a better spoiler free...

Happy Holidays

Greetings,

I hope you have a good time and can enjoy the holidays as much as you can.

I wanted to do a Christmas themed render this year. This 4K image does not replace the usual subscribers reward. The poll for this will come soon.

Progress update will come as usual tomorrow.

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XVIII

Greetings,

well it's the time at the end of the year where everything is a bit more hectic in work and private life so I couldn't do as much as I want. However, I still did some progress render-wise. I think I'm halfway through with one of the 2 final scenes. Hopefully by the end of next week I'll be through with this scene and continue to work on the last scene. The total render count for this update will be higher than in any previous update which I didn't thought at the beginning of ...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XVII

Greetings,

nothing much to say this week. Rendering was quite smooth I think. I finished another scene and now "only" 2 scenes are left.

I haven't really created any spoiler free image this week. But I also worked a bit on the procedural generated northern lights project I wrote a while ago. I'm not 100% satisfied with it yet, but it's going in a good direction I think. I'll try to create some spoiler-free in-between shots for next week.

Current status

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XVI

Greetings,

the render progress was a bit slower this week for a few reasons. One is private and work life and the other is that I adapted my shaders to the new octane render release which took some time. More on that below. So there are 3 scenes left to do and I started one of the bigger scenes.

Octane / Shader

Why the change mid-update while I initially wanted to finish the whole update until I do? I finished all scenes that I started and started to work on...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XV

Greetings,

had a bit more time this week than usually so I could do pretty good progress on the render front. Could finish a few smaller scenes and started new ones.

I have 4 more bigger scenes to do. 2 of them are pretty big / longer ones. I'll try my best to get everything done before the end of this year, but I won't promise anything.

The backlog for the technical background tasks is also growing. I need to script in the new locations for the free roam. I have to do the s...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XIV

Greetings,

the increase in the render count this week isn't as high as I would like it to be but I created and finished another location.

Bathroom environment

I wanted to create a specific scene / pay homage to a meme. But I didn't just want to recreate the scene but make fit to my style and to the story/ universe. I don't want to spoil it to hard. The renders of the environment aren't the finals of the environment. I filled the scene a bit more before start...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XIII

Greetings,

this will be a rather short update but I hope the next one will be a bit longer again. I finished rendering some more scenes but haven't tackled the hot ones yet. And presumable I won't start with them next week as I still have a few other scenes to render which I already prepared.

I noticed that I use more images for dialogues in average then before which might result in a higher render count this update even if it might be a bit shorter than the last. 

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[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update XII

Greetings,

this will be a somewhat shorter update I think. The sauna is finished and I'm quite happy with it. As always I would like to add more details, but this will do for now.

I also did more dialogue rendering for other scenes and the review process for the dialogue of the whole episode is nearly finished. Thanks to osanaiko for that.

Current status

~ 365 rendered and edited images

~ 60% scripting done

[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 lef...

[General] Murphy can kiss my ass

Greetings,

I'm back from my vacation. Well, as indicated by the headline, not all went as planed...

Short vacation summary

A day before my departure when I wanted to control my checklist for the vacation one last time my pc broke down and didn't came back on again. 

On the first route section I had to find out that the induction charging in my car isn't enough to support navigation streaming from my phone to my car (android connect). Happened in t...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update X

Greetings,

this will be the last progress update for a few weeks until after my vacation. The biggest progress this week was probably the scripting which is now done half way done probably. While scripting I prepared notes for me so I know where I have to take on after my vacation.

Streaming

The stream didn't really got picked up which I understand that it probably isn't really of interest here. However, I felt I was more focused during such a streaming sess...

[Announcement] Stream - Modelling a sauna

Greetings,

the stream will happen on the 01-10-2022 at 19:00 GMT in case someone want to have a look. The stream will take place in a dedicated room on my discord channel where only Patreon members will have access. I won't do any spoken commentary. However, I'll have the chat open. Please don't expect a professional stream or anything.

The image above is quick reference collection for some rough ideas.

4K Render Reward - Selene in 'Mirrors Edge'

Greetings,

there it is. Had a blast creating it. It might not be perfect but I think it does catch the style of its role model.

Some minor details about the image itself. The environment is created through kit-bashing and some of my own models like some of the pipes and the camera. I recreated Faith's tattoo's and fit them to Selene.

For the far background, the skyline, I cheated a bit and used a in-game screenshot from the actual game Mirrors Edge. Sadly it comes with a bit...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update IX

Greetings,

I've worked on the game as usual. So, more renders done and more scripting was done. The stream for the sauna modeling will be later this week as I want to finish the 4K render before.

I paused the billing cycle for October, so no one should be charged on October first. Did you get a message for that, or can you see that anywhere, just to be sure? Billing will return on November first after my vacation.

Preview-Image

Usually I don't write mu...

Poll for 4K Render

Greetings,

like I said, before the vacation I want to make another 4K render and thought of 3 specific scenes / styles I'd like to give a go. They are all inspired by games / franchises whose style I really like and would like to try to recreate their flair.

The poll will end on next Monday as time is running short :)

Cyberpunk with Selene and Elios

In my mind it will be a render with bright neon lights and some slight adjustments to the models of both...

[Episode Fomalhaut] Progress Update VIII

Greetings,

this week I've been doing more rendering and starting scripting the first scenes.

Locations

There will be quite a few new locations that will be accessible in the upcoming update like the one above. So lot's of new locations to hide little secrets :)

Most of those environments I'd already modeled before starting to develop the episodes so I just did some retouching on those scenes as the the shading was done with an old version of the render...