Update for Corruption of the Lodge 3 (Patreon)

Hi everyone,First let me thank you so much for your tremendously great feedback on the preview video. It gave my motivation a huge boost (if it needed any)! Also you provided  really helpful feedback and suggestions for improvement. A result of that you can see a feedback-implementation in the gif above. :-)For Tier 1&2 backers: I will release the preview to you on 20. December, when Netflix will launch the Witcher-Series.The thing with the render-times

Now to the not so good news. Bomyman's lighting imo is a huge improvement to the looks of Corruption 3. I probably could never go back to my old noobish lighting (and I won't). But it comes at a cost: A dramatic increase of the rendertimes. May you already noticed, that the preview only had 30 frames, but the final movie of course should have 60 fps. The reason, why I chose 30 frames is, that otherwise I wouldn't have been able to release the preview in time. If I calculate correctly, now one minute with 60fps of content needs about 26-28 hours of rendering time. Considering the final runtime and possible rerenders, I calculate with a total rendertime of approx. 550 up to 650 hours. Which means, the movie needs almost one month alone for the rendering, if the PC runs 24/7. 😬I now consider to buy a second hardware-setup, so that I could work while rendering. But still this is a lot of time.Also finishing the preview-animations to a close-to-final-state took me more time than expected and was kind of exhausting, even if I took vacation from RL-job (Steam says, 176 hours in the last two weeks - incl. approx. 50 hours rendering at night). Which is why I now have to calculate with a release not before February 2020 or maybe  even March  (hopefully not).  😑

It nearly is breaking my heart to tell you that. And as a little excuse for this new delay I plan to pause patreon-charges for you in January to make the wait a little easier for you.  Sorry, sorry, sorry!