Progress Update #04 (Patreon)

I just finished all of the two best sisters sequences in this scene! Now I gotta animate all the other enemy characters. One of them is going to catch on fire! That should be fun!

The month of December just ended, and I feel like it could have been a lot more productive. So let's start this year with a production schedule!

http://i.imgur.com/kiwK9ZZ.png
These are my plans for the next 2 months! I'm a little bit worried about the last scene though. If it gets too rough, I might not do a video update in february, I'll just focus on the animation.

Characters and episodes

I got a lot of suggestions in the last update! And I still haven't read through all of the comments, but from what I've seen, people are split on the characters choices. So I just wanted to say that I hear you! And I think I have a solution that will please everybody! (Hopefully :p)

I'll talk more about it in the next video!

The new PC

http://i.imgur.com/eusu826.jpg

Here's the build:

i7 6700k (cheap and powerful!)

Asus B150 pro gaming (this is not a gaming build, but this motherboard is pretty good, lots of sata and usb slots)

32gb 2400MHz DDR4 Corsair RAM (the cpu limit is actually 2133 but the 2400 was cheaper)

480gb SSD Kingston (first time using a SSD, it's great! super fast!)

2TB Seagate HD

GTX 770 (using my old GPU and HD for now)

After Effects Benchmarks:

http://i.imgur.com/kdplf01.png

Duration 8 seconds - I've showed this sequence in a previous update. Really simple, no backgrounds, no effects just the characters.

old PC 14min 20sec
new PC 05min 34sec

http://i.imgur.com/44zOeSc.jpg

Duration 3 seconds - This is a heavy composition, with lots of layers and high resolution footage. I did not rendered the characters in this test.

old PC 06min 33sec
new PC 02min 20sec