Early update (Patreon)

Gonna call it early this time instead of making you all wait.  Still adding more frames to set 20 and at the rythm they are rendering (4 damn characters again), I best call it early and say it is not going to be tonight.  It's best this way so I don't stress all evening waiting on those and I barely slept last night.

While we're at it, might as well mention what I alluded to yesterday.  All these last minute delays are stressing the heck out of me because, well, I don't storyboard beforehand and as I render new frames, I get ideas for new ones to add and eventually the sets bloat up to 20-25+ frames, which is good for everyone, even me, because I enjoy what I do, but yeah... the stress to release everything on time as promised.  So there's a few things I've been planning to do to solve this issue:

- Better storyboarding.  I always have a general idea of where the stories are going but it would be good to know how many frames I will need to end up with at the end of a set (keep in mind that those transformation shots mean 2 renders of the same pic, so numbers quickly go out of control... but we all know those aren't going anywhere because that's what we all love here).    So a nice idea to have, but I know myself and I will probably keep doing it as it comes to me.  Creatively, that's the better way to go.

- Second thing I plan on doing, and this one IS becoming a reality, likely next month.  All of you awesome people made me bust the milestones I had set pretty much from the start (Still can't believe it, I'm pretty much at twice the amount I had set my highest milestone at) and I have yet to licence those 2 pieces of software.  The reason being that I don't even have time to mess around with them since my PC is pretty much rendering 25 days out of the month.

SO... you made this happen: Getting a new rig likely next month (my current rig is only a year old, was brand new when I started this) because it has become a necessity and it is the next logical step in making all of this as efficient as possible and allowing me to model new stuff on the side while renders are happening.

- Finally, the third thing and something I plan to make happen before next summer if this all continues to grow: Quit my dayjob and do this full time.

I have already rambled on long enough but I will truly need to put into word the journey you guys have made me go through this last year because it feels like I'm in one of those 'believe in yourself and everything is possible' movies... except I make porn.

Have a great evening and thanks again! Thanks so much!