Artemis DevLog CH6 (Patreon)

Hey, everyone!

Sometimes when you're working on a scene, there's just something that's off. And after spending so much time trying to fix it, you realize its best to just move forward with it. Or else you end up spending more time on it than you want. But I like to keep those bits in the back of my mind while I work on new scenes. See if I can think of something to fix the issue.

One of those examples being the Halloween party in CH4. So many custom 3D assets, so many characters and the damn ground fog I had to have in the scene. At the time, I was doing 4K no denoise and downscaling the renders. Needless to say, the renders came out pretty bad. Even with denoise, I would have to set the iterations at a crazy number and each scene already was hitting 40+ min a shot to render and I felt the pressure of the release date with no solution to fix at the time. I believe I found a solution, but won't test it until after this release (that scene alone is over 1k renders.)

In regard to this chapter though, I was able to fix a scene that was nagging me and it was only 6 renders to fix.

Difficult to see, but there's black splotches at the upper left (more noticeable full screen). But the main issue is DK's skin.

 I was able to give her skin more color. Also, the misty morning of the location came out much better.

 This part of the scene was done in Blender. The great thing about DAZ is you can load in the character's skin and it's ready to go. Blender requires fine tuning and each character needs their own adjustment. Some characters are easier to do than others. DK's was a challenge because of her olive skin tone, I'm guessing.

Here's another preview

Lastly. It's Thanksgiving this week for us in the States. And most of you know I lost my mother to cancer over the summer and the holidays are just difficult this year. But I'm still very thankful. Thankful to you guys. It's been a difficult year, but because of you guys. I was allowed to be with my mom and care for her. Last year she seemed healthy on the outside and this year just went down hill so very fast. But that's the ugly thing about cancer. But as I said. Because of you, I was able to take her to her appointments, grab her meds, get her meals. Take care of her best I could. A lot of you reached out when it happened and I apologize for not getting back to everyone. But I saw your messages and just want to say thank you all for getting me through this year. I really do appreciate you all.

Have yourselves a great week and please be safe.

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