Friday Progress Update, November 17: "Roadtrips"

Good day, folks!

It's time for yet another Friday Progress Update. The latest in an endless row of rambling posts.

We're definitely closing in on the release day for the next update. I'm past 600 renders now, and I think 10 animations. I'm probably not doing any more animations, and I've got maybe 60 renders to go. Update relatively soon, in other words!

I'm thinking a lot about animations these days. I like doing them, but it's very time consuming and fiddly and I think the results are most of the time, quite frankly, mediocre. It takes me about as long as doing 5-10 renders to do one animation. So ten animations in the next update would equal around maybe 75 renders. Is it worth it?

Blender is supposedly a much better animation tool, but also supposedly with a steep learning curve. I don't really have time for that! Plus if you do animations in blender, you sort of have to do the rest in it too if it's gonna match. And I'm not sold on the blender renders I've seen.

Another headache I have is trying to make some nice, short, looping gifs. Every method I try give me poor quality and weird artifacts. If anyone has some pro tips, let me know!

I'm including a picture from the next update, with no context!

Best Friends Forever?

I'm going to jump right back into Daz. Aiming for at least 10 more renders today. I want to start post work early next week!

Thanks for your support and I'll see you again soon!