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Hello,
So, another song has been licensed for a future cinematic… It always hits me like a truck when I’m listening on Spotify shuffle and a song comes on that immediately hits me with a cinematic.
Luckily, after looking up who made the song, I already knew him and had licensed of him before, but I’d never heard that song before.
I love witnessing the successful birth of a future cinematic.
I’ve given animations a more prominent focus now. I usually do them around the end of an update, but I have quite a few to do.
Obviously, the beginning of a Season will get its intro cinematic.
I secured the license back in August 2023, and it’s been waiting to be molded.
On the other hand, I have a huge queue of renders waiting to be rendered, and if I render animations through the night, they do finish at some point, and the PC is just sitting there…
I went back in time and did something I used to do when I just started developing.
Back then, I set the alarm every two hours to get up -> save the render -> load a new file -> click render & set the alarm again, -> back to sleep.
Simple images used to take around two hours… I’m glad that’s over.
But I’ve been doing the same with my animations. With the switch to 4k, I do now have to render them in 4K, too.
I didn’t do that in the past because it takes longer, and I was releasing in 1920x1080 back then anyways.
But it’s not going to postpone the update because even if the animations aren’t finished by the end of the rendering process… they will finish during the postwork and testing phase.
I did start porting characters over to Blender to make cinematics there… I also have some Sasha animations that I did in Blender, and I particularly focused on detailed movement in the face region by dialing it in manually.
But more about this (and the preview of the animations) in a Blender log.
2. Season 2 - Chapter 1
I’m about to finish four scenes. I already previewed one of them, but I can’t show anything else of it.
As soon as I have finished these four scenes, I will move on to a scene I’ve been looking forward to for a long time.
The scene is about Victoria and Maja. I have definitely mentioned the scene in previous logs, and man, I am so excited!
Work’s been great.
Advances are made everywhere.
Ahhh, right. I do have an RL friend who is rather good with coding… No, he doesn’t do Python or Renpy, so I can’t use him for the actual game…
But I thought about some things I do every day that he might be able to automate for me.
And sadly, I can’t automate postwork. I do something very specific for every single render that cannot be automated.
But maybe some other things that are directly involved in setting up scenes… I’ll keep you updated about this.
Previews:
A rare sighting… Ayua.
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Another rather rare sighting… Kate
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I have to take back something I said in a previous Dev Log… There’s going to be another Bellchen Preview at some point… I did finish a render that is just soooo cute. I’ll preview it at some point.
I’ll see you in two weeks… Hopefully, with the first preview of that Vic & Maja scene.
- Ocean
