DevLog: Take your shirt off

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11 days ago by nuii pointer

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Quick reminder: You can follow development more closely on the Trello board.

TLDR;

Scene 7 - almost done
Scene 8 - just finished rendering - almost done
Gonna do house-keeping tasks
Scene 9 - is gonna start soon

✅ Last Week's Progress

What I accomplished since the last update:

Scene 7 - Just re-played this scene, and wow, I forgot how cool it was. Thanks again to Batman for helping me out with some of the music on this scene. He was so generous to provide me with some soundtracks that I can use. Let me just tell you that it has added so much atmosphere to this scene and it's made it feel absolutely complete! If you notice the Trello shows that this isn't complete; that's because there's still one more track to add during the animations - but that's the last remaining piece!
Scene 8 - I've just finished rendering all 280 images of this scene. I have gotten into the habit of progressive rendering; I'll render at a lower quality and lower resolution (all images), and look for issues and mistakes, fix them, and render at higher quality and high resolution. I do this until I reach 4K images. And this scene turned out even better than I originally imagined! I've added music, but there's still some music soundtracks that need to be added to this as well. (possibly two more?)

🛠️ Current Development

What I'm working on right now:

I need to take a little bit of a breather from working in Blender; while it's fun and feels productive, I need to focus on a few things in the house-keeping department (some really small tasks that you'll see on the Trello board):

🔮 Coming Soon

What I'm planning to work on next:

Scene 9 - This next scene will be introducing us around the PRISM facility. While it's written, might need to potentially write more on this scene.

⚙️ Technical Corner

Not much here this week; but I will say that Blender's EEVEE helped out with rendering Scene 8. With 4K images taking less than 2 minutes to render, I got 280+ images finished within a day.