Video Ventures and Challenges (Patreon)

Hello everyone, last year I announced that I'm slowly but surely venturing into the creation of videos. The initial tests have been successful, and I have gained good knowledge, but I'm not completely satisfied with the results yet.

About the video: I put together the video from three individual pieces without any music, sound, or other gimmicks. It's just an initial test to see how the dynamic calculation of clothing works in a video, as well as the creation of videos. I paid particular attention to the frames per second playback. Currently, 35 individual frames were calculated for 1 second. Each of the three individual pieces had a pure rendering time of around 17 hours.

My issues with the video: Firstly, I realize that my computer, despite good hardware, is getting old. Rendering these videos has taken a lot of time, time that I lack to keep up with the ongoing comics if I want to focus more on animations. So, I will have to find a compromise here, which means I will eventually have to invest a large amount of money in a new high-end computer system to maintain both the comics and animations. The system I have in mind currently costs around €5000, a considerable amount of money.

Secondly, I found that while DAZ is a nice program for pure image generation, it has many limitations for animations, which can be partially bypassed with tricks but are sometimes very hidden. So, I will have to build an alternative to DAZ, and at least for now, it will be Blender. I have done some initial tests here, but somehow I am struggling with the handling.

You can find the Test video as attachment. 

Let me know what you think.