CGMan

Render Progress and Musings

Added 2019-05-06 08:15:38 +0000 UTC

Hello!

I've got nothing better to do than to stare at my computer while it renders so I thought I would share some thoughts with you.

Frame 720 is rendering.. Out of a total of..roughly 5000. It's going well.

Anyway, I was just seized with an idea that will let me make fuller hair styles. So look forward to Suki getting a remastered hairstyle for her third animation.

After I finish her third animation (parts 1&2) I was thinking of embarking on a new character. I learned some lessons working on this one and the full-body FEM sim isn't working quite as well as I would like. It works.. But it doesn't give me as much control as I would like in places like how her arms bend. So for the next character I want to do a hybrid rig. Parts of her will be more traditional rigging and other parts (namely her chest and back) will be FEM simmed.

If I can figure out Houdini that will make all of this moot, but figuring out Houdini is no small hurdle.

What type of lady would you like to see for the next character? I was thinking maybe a pacific-islander type, like Moana (but over 18). I'm eager to see what kind of skin fidelity I can get now that memory is much less of a bottleneck.

My 8GB of memory is on order and the arrival estimate is between the 9th and 14th. Oy. That is some slow memory!