All the Rendering! (Patreon)

It's time to turn the heating down and the PCs up in my place, as all animation and polish is completed and rendering of the last scene has begun! This rather intimate scene with Zoe consists of 14 shots and adds another minute and a half to the animation in total.

With all the animation and render-prep work done, I'm now starting work on post production for the remaining rooftop scenes. There's also some additional sound design and music work that I'll also try to tackle in the upcoming weeks. The scene with Zoe is being rendered on two PCs, with the dual 4090s workstation doing most of the heavy lifting. I've also reinstated my old workstation, which recently got a CPU replacement, as well as the 4090 that was successfully repaired for some much needed parallelization. So far the machine is running well and without any issues, so fingers crossed it will remain that way, especially considering the price of computer hardware right now.

It's still difficult to say how long the new Zoe scene will render, but I'd like everything to be wrapped up by the end of next month, so we have a complete Patreon release by the end of February. At least that's what I'm hoping right now, as I also really want to wrap up the first part, so we can continue animating the rather elaborate rooftop battle, which is what I'm admittedly looking forward to the most animation wise!

All the scenes with Chloe are also fully rendered, so I'll have to see if I do another Patreon preview at the end of this month, as it would be quite close to the final release anyway. It's likely I might just show another rendered scene with Zoe, as preparing these big previews usually takes a full day of preparation, which I'll direly need to tie up all the remaining loose ends. Currently the music is my biggest concern there, as there's very little of that finalized. Worst case would be that some of that might still be missing from the major Patreon release. Fingers crossed!