Progress 01.01.2024

Hello all. 

Slightly frustrated at DAZ today, but that's nothing new. Beyond that, I had a fairly productive weekend. I have two, maybe three, scenes left to do rendering wise. Which is a relief in all honesty. But at the same time, this update has finally hammered in that while I want to do the updates as quickly as possible, there will be times I just have to accept that it will take time to get the scenes like I want them to be. Some of the renders I've done have been awesome, in my opinion.

Writing. It's... flowing just need to write, really. Just need to put my headphones on and shut everything out for a moment and it will write itself, almost. But while I'm not exactly on schedule with it, I'm in a good place with it, so all is good.

And then some interruptions while travelling. Travelling times can be either boon or a hindrance of sorts. More often than not, it is a time skip and we fade from black in a new location. That's fine. Realistically, unless you are deep in the wilderness, there is a limited amount of encounters that can happen. While in the more border regions there are more dangerous, the heartlands of the empire are relatively safe and dull. That and constant, seemingly random encounters can get tedious. Although I need to look into something for those travelling times, unfortunately... I can't draw.

Small bonus render. I like night time renders; they feed my imagination... probably partially why I enjoy writing middle of the night. And one of the rare occasions where I use some sort of blur. I could use it, but I do have a few reasons why I don't. Two of the more important ones is that they give me a headache. I look at them for long periods of time while doing post, so after a while I'd spend a day in bed just to trying to get rid of the headache. Second is... if I use them I can't hide things in the backgrounds anymore. Part of their charm is that they are there, happening, and you might miss them until second or third playthrough. If I would do them while using blurring, I would have to remove the blur and you would instantly know that something would be happening, and part of the charm would be lost.

Anyway, TL;DR. Things are going nicely for a change.