One to go...

Another quick one.

Unexpectedly getting a long Easter weekend off has given me a bunch of time to sink into this, and we are now down to one scene left to go. Part of it is already animated, but the more complex bits are still to be done, then a render.

The other 2 later scenes have had a bit of a learning curve. It took me a while to figure out how to transition between 2 NLA strips smoothly, and ended up with an extreme jump in position for Kyn, which managed to almost get missed in a long render. Luckily, I spotted it and went back to re-render that section, and it seems to be sorted.

One other casualty was part of the ending longtake. There were trees, and I thought the motion was because of light flicker. Turns out it was our old friend Vortex, from the Kyn fur issues the other week. Personally I love being out in the mountains, so I'm not sure how I didn't spot that typical behaviour for mountains does not include pulsating.

That's been fixed and re-rendered, so things are looking better. Not perfect, but better.

I was hoping to get this episode finished this weekend. That's unlikely, but fingers are crossed for sometime in the next week. I want to aim for wednesday or thursday evenings, cos they seem to be the days the sites I release it on have decent traffic. If I get it done where it won't hit those days, I'll bend my Patreon rules a little bit and release here early rather than sit on it. Bonus of course is that you guys are quite good at spotting obvious fuckups that I've missed despite months of staring at this thing!

Here we go...

[edit - 06/04/21 21:24]Last section is rendering! Fingers crossed it'll finish before I have to go to work tomorrow. Not sure how long editing is going to take, so maybe tomorrow, but more likely thursday.[/edit]