[Episode Gacrux] Progress Update VI (Patreon)

Greetings,

well this was a rather unpleasant week. Had a family gathering last weekend where half of them were sick but turned up anyway which lead to me getting ill as well. Thanks for that. When it comes to being ill I rather tend to stay in bed and drink a lot of tea to sweat it out as fast as I can. That usually works quite will but this time I had tonsillitis too and it wasn't / isn't gone as fast as I had hoped for.

And on top of that I had another fuck-up... I blame it on the virus (not covid tho) that I made the same mistake again for a scene and forgot to disable the beard which really annoys me because it affects a lot of renders. However, I'm not re-rendering them immediately this time. I made a task for me, to fix those images between alpha and final release of the update.

On the up-side I at least started to work on a new scene which is in a new environment like I said last week.The environment lets me play a bit with lighting again. I think it turned out rather nice. The only down-side on it are artifacts in some 'difficult' places. For example the hairline on Selene in the depth-of-field on the shadow side. That's hard to compute. I can fix it by increasing the render-time. But it's already at 30min for this frame only. So I need to balance it a bit. Maybe I'll try to fix it by manually brushing over it.

Current status

~ 180 rendered and edited images

- 1 High-res vertical scroll image

~ 75% written

~ 15% scripted