Dev Diary, July 7th, 2023 (Patreon)

I promised you some numbers last week, so let's start with that. Story renders are at 612 and completed animation frames are at 2,576. In other words good progress over the last few weeks.

I also signed some new songs. One of them is very good and gave me the idea for a scene, where I basically animate a segment through the whole song. These scenes are very complex to do, but I feel add so much it's worth the effort. This specific scene I think will give you that feeling you had while playing Leap of Faith (not THAT scene).

Although, what I'm trying to do isn't technically possible in Daz Studio, and a piece of cake in Blender, but the scene is far too complex to send over to Blender as my first Blender project. So while exchanging ideas with Puggy and Wibble about it, it boiled down to trying to trick Daz into doing something it's not meant to do. In addition to that, I'll collect some friends and we're going to try and re-enact that scene in the mo-cap suit. And no, it's not lewd. :) And yes, I'm very much looking forward to start working on that scene when the time comes.

One thing I noticed after episode 1 of U4iA is that Lin had much more support than I thought she would, so I decided to expand her role a bit in the story. So if you enjoy Lin's company, that should be good news for you - which brings us to the previews.

That's it for this week. One drawback about doing a lot of renders in a short amount of time is that there is a whole lot more to post-edit (which I do manually). So I'd better get back at it.

Have a nice weekend, and stay safe out there.

Cheers

// Drifty