Was pleasantly surprised to find that the bed scenes can be optimized so much that I can do a full render for the close up creeper stuff in about 10-15 minutes per image so that should make it MUCH easier for me to experiment with different ideas til I figure out what I want to do and fix stuff if I don't like it. If it took an hour or two per image like the open door renders did, that process was going to be a huge pain.
This should give you a good idea of what I have in mind for lighting and such. Unfortunately the lighting changes completely if you zoom in or out, move the covers up or down, etc so light levels are probably not going to be consistent. For example the white comforter reflects a lot of light, but Christine's blue shirt doesn't. So I actually have the light cranked up to 5x the intensity when I pull the covers down but it doesn't look like it.
These scenes should give me lots of practice at clothing morphs which I currently am terrible at so it'll be good practice. I'll have Christine do some creeper stuff here as well so we'll see if she likes his newly bigger girth.
Anyway, here's MC getting in touch with his inner creeper... I think the first one is probably a bit too dark so I'll probably redo that one. I also think it works better when you can see MC actually doing something rather than just have the covers pull down so I think I want to change that as well.