Progress 27.09.2024

Hello all!

One scene left to render, or well half a scene but it might be 20 or 60 renders depends how the scene flow goes. I'm at 360 renders which is around where I should be a the moment if we count renders, but there are some additional renders so it's just in the ballpark. It has been, slightly annoying updated to render. A lot of renders took a lot longer than I expected, or should I say had hoped. But in the end, renders take the time they take.

Writing is where it should be, not that it makes me happy since rendering takes the time I would want to write. But it will be fine, part of the reason I have the buffer. Just need to ensure it doesn't get reduced too much. Also been doing most of the coding and post work at the same time and still haven't grown extra pair of arms... ah well.

Now this is an actual preview, to a point. It is missing a character because including that character would have been a major spoiler. Without that? It's just Tomas, Shani and a couple of masters... and students in the background. And this is one of the things I wanted to talk about on Monday, but I forgot.

Most of the light in this scene and one of the previous ones comes from a small source, namely the crystals on the staves. The red tint comes from Master Sunan's (the bald guy who isn't Magnus) staff because the gem on the top of it is a ruby. So should have picked another colour, but hindsight! And next small weird render.

The previous scene that is set in this room is mostly lit by this:

So, in certain scenes, the light creates interesting patterns. It's due to this. How the crystal is cut and the shaping of the filament that holds is creating shadows. And that being said, that particular scene is fairly dark, so there is the "enhanced visibility" option for that particular scene. They aren't overtly bright, but bright enough to see clearly.

 

And then a little bonus render... of sorts. Regardless of the choices made, Miki's life is about to change, whether it is for good or bad remains to be seen. But little divination can't hurt... even if it isn't as accurate as it used to be at the moment. It is sort of amusing. This wasn't supposed to be the "bonus render", the one I was originally making for it ends up as a hidden image because it allows me to show something I might not have been able to show otherwise... Plans within plans and all that.