Artemis DevLog - CH5 (Patreon)

Happy Monday!

This week sort of flew by me. Even now, I had to double-check if today was Monday. I believe I mentioned this before. But as I was working on scenes that didn't involve Artemis herself this week, I noticed how much her being in scenes really increases render times. Granted lighting in 3D space is a major factor in render times and I've been doing a lot with lighting adjustments this chapter. I've also adjusted the render settings this time around, moving away from denoising software and just tweaking settings and rendering at 4k. The results are looking great so far, just at the cost of render time, mainly scenes that involve Artemis herself. For example, this shot has 11 G8 characters and on a 4090, it took about 15-20 minutes.

A few factors to consider. In this shot the model is closer to the camera with less lighting. One could say the bubble wrap could have bumped up the render time, but if it did. It only added maybe an extra 5 or 10 minutes. Every shot for this scene took about an hour - 1 hour 30 min.

The render I did last week with Artemis and the compound bow was her "human" model. That was rendered in 8K and only took 30-45 minutes on a 4090. Again, the lighting was different in that scene. As well as the composition was also different. Since Mondays are generally my days where I unwind from the previous week and focus on art/learning/customs. I'll also do some tests with her model and see if I can finetune some settings to get the render times down while maintaining the quality. But if it comes to it, I'll just tweak the story a bit so that she gets her "android" bits finished sooner than initially planned. But if it comes to that, chances are it'll happen in CH6 since I've already got CH5 all planned out.

While on the topic of Artemis herself. She'll need some "everyday" clothes which she'll mostly wear throughout Book 2. Today, while I work on some render tests. I'll also work on some outfits to choose from that'll go up on a poll next week.

That's about it for last week's work. It's been fun finally working with Artemis in the story and really look forward to getting this next update out to you guys.

Have yourselves a great week and be safe out there!

- digi.B