Devil's Cookie, WIP clip 4 (Patreon)

Hey,

Latest WIP clip has been added into the current project folder inside the WIP gallery (Discord #preview tier). Audio and HDR version can be found in the 10$ gallery (Discord #essentials-tier).

Roughly 14000 frames rendered so far. I'm mostly happy with the results here, although there's some strange movement on one of master's hair clumps on her forehead during the "from mouth" shot. But I don't think it bothers me enough to do a re-render, considering those kind of shots tend to take forever to render.

Again, the slimy strands are often disappearing rather abruptly, as has been the case with previous clips as well. Fixing this would require giving each single strand a separate shader due to me using displacement on them. For those interested in the technical side, basically I make the strands disappear by scaling them to 0, but since there's a shader with displacement on top, it'll push out the geometry a bit, leaving it much thicker than intended during the time the object's visibility gets disabled disappears.

But since it's not a super massive issue, as in you probably won't notice it, unless you focus on a strand, which most viewers probably are not going to do, except with a lot of repeat viewings, meaning I'm likely essentially the only one noticing this, since I of course look at everything when I'm reviewing the footage for issues. I'm not certain if I'll bother fixing this, outside of maybe the more glaring ones, before final release. We'll see.

No clip next week, as this one was slightly longer than previous ones posted, and, as mentioned before, I want to leave enough footage fresh for the final release as well. Instead I'll likely just be posting some test renders from internals.

That's all for now!