Big Decision (Patreon)

Hey everyone...  I have a somewhat educated estimate of how long this will take to render based on how long it has taken thusfar.  Look at the attached video clip.  The medium shot took around 14 minutes per frame to render.  The closer shot at the end... It is very brief, is cooking at around 49 minutes per frame to render.  So.. If I keep going at this current resolution and quality, I estimate the rendering for the entire sequence of 11060 frames (not including the background) will take roughly 312 days.

I can just let it go while I work on the next animation.  But that is a heck of a long wait.  There are things I can do to speed it up..

I can drop it down to the resolution of previous animations.  That will slice roughly 1/5th of the time off.

I can reduce various render quality settings that will make it look more noisy/grainy.

The two biggest contributors to what is taking so long are her hair, and the fact that this is a scene contained in an internal structure.  Light is bouncing around the walls and floor and such and it just makes it take longer.  When I do shots in open environments with a single sun shining above it renders much faster.  But the "story" of this entire thing is tied heavily to the environment she is in.  So if I remove the internal set the animation will be the same but it be kind of weird with the story.

Pick what you would like me to do here.  Let it burn and burn until it's done...  Shave off a bit more... Or go crazy and make it go as fast as possible, quality be damned.