Final Stretch (Patreon)

We’re on the last stretch of rendering and everything that comes after! Still a bit difficult to determine a day for the Patreon release of Encounter 3 - Part 1, but I’d cautiously give a timeframe of the 23rd - 28th of February!

So far 11/14 shots are rendered of the additional Zoe scene, with shot 12 and 13 being rendered as of typing this. Post production is fully done for all shots but the Zoe sequence, but I’ll rush through that in the next days as well. All the rooftop parts are fully done in terms of effects work, while subtle post motion blur has been added for the majority of shots that previously had none, making the character movements a lot smoother. There’s been a bit of floundering as the first part already consists of over 100 shots, of which the different production and post stages are spread out over 7 SSD and HDDs, resulting in over 10TBs of frame data which has been an enormous juggle. My plan for this year was to get some sort of enterprise SSD, but seeing the insane price hike on drives I’ll probably be relying on having a whole keychain of external drives for another while, oh well!

Note that while all visuals will be finalized for the upcoming Patreon release, some of the music might still be missing for a number of shots, as the composer and me might not get all parts scored until release. I’ll see how quick we can get the sound design done on the Zoe scene as well, as it was added in such a last minute way. If it’s not finalized for the initial release, then it’ll probably be finalized a week later and the links will be updated!

Many thanks for your incredible patience everyone! We’ll have the first part wrapped up soon! 🙏