Depends on what he as already in the pipeline and what not.
Lets get back to January 5th, where he said he has already rendered 63 animations and posed 85.
Which is impossible to do in 2 weeks no matter if those animations are long or short... So its obvious he had something done in advance even before episode 10 was released.
Scenes like "Madame" or other lewd scenes are kinda perfect for that. He already knows before he even has a total picture of the upcoming episode if he wants to create this or that lewd scene for some characters (or other scenes and things). So he can make them or something for them in advance. (for example... the cathy and jade dream lewd scenes in the early episodes were done at once. He just released them bit by bit)
And it is in fact a really HUGE difference if he has to create the evironment too or if it already exists. Its not that much work to add just the characters into an already existing environment. Its a little more than "copy and paste"... creating the whole background and evironment does take time. Changing already existing environment is pretty easy too.
All in all, it really depends on what he already has in store, what he can "reuse" and what he has to create from scratch.
I dont get the obsession with the special renders... but its nothing new that DPC likes to create stuff from scratch even for pointless things... the "creating" part of the creative process is something he enjoys VERY much. Doesnt matter what it is about... so its not that surpising that he makes that much effort only for some maya special renders. And i think he needs this kind of work just to distract himself from the average "hamster wheel"
I watched a little how the creating process runs via DAZ and other tools... its fascinating how FAST you can create several static renders in a row if the environment is already there. Its just some mouseclicks here and there adjusting the pose of the models and so on... i watched a video maybe 2 years ago where a DEV from a renpy game posed about 50 static renders in less than an hour (the video was of course fast forwarded). And than he started to create a bedroom with a lot of stuff in it... it took him 20 hours just to create this room without anything else. So yeah it is "plausible" why he needs so much time for the special renders... but... it really doesnt matter does it? Its just a couple of days. And he isnt doing that many special renders anyways... for him its just for fun. Lets give him that.
To me its totally pointless why he does so much effort only for special renders... creating a whole scene only for that with a special made environment and so on... but... yeah thats DPC to you. If he has fun creating something, he will, even if its pointless to anybody else.
*Edit* oh back to the DEV report... kinda forgot it... So static renders all over the place. Kinda curious how many he has done already... the big scene he has finished was about 400 renders big he said... btw... done in less than 2 weeks. So yeah, static renders are not the bottleneck for a DEV cycle at all. It seems like he doesnt have the right mind to code and write these days... its art art and more art. Well, at least he has done enough writing to do the art for 4 other scenes, thats something... Overall, the DEV reports doesnt gave away any numbers to work with, which is annoying... but if you read them it looks like DPC is making A LOT progress, but... only numbers will tell. And that he is holding back those numbers concerns me a little...
2 months now... he should be at about 1000 static renders and about 100 animations rendered to be on track for a maybe 10 months release... and, dont know... it doesnt look like it.
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