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next videos being rendered, sorry for the insanely long wait
🕑 Added 2021-06-23 05:38:11 +0000 UTCim gonna try to quickly recap why this is all taking so long for just a single video -
first off, its a lightning taker pov blowjob video from serahs point of view (69 position, i think the first i ever made?)
was originally a ~15 second loop, so that this port would be easier compared to last time, and that i can get it out quicker
it was then expanded, and is now a almost minute long with a cumshot finish, with all the other parts of the animation not being looped
animation was then finished on christmas
porting was done very shortly after
a billion problems that i had no idea how to get around kept popping up every step of the way
was impossible to find help online with certain problems i kept running into
the help that was available online sometimes didnt work with this video, due to serahs model working very poorly with some certain things in blender (this exact model of hers will be dropped in the future due to this. another higher quality one was available recently, and i will port it myself later, so shes not completely gone forever)
everything i spent a year on since the last video that had to do with textures/materials was completely scrapped and redone from scratch. this means how things like hair, skin, teeth, eyes, the floor, lightnings gloves, literally everything looks better now compared to last time
the lighting took me a month to do, its an extremely hard thing for me to pull off, i was never good at it, not even once, haha. alot of the lighting problems i had was because my outdated setup (talked about right about this) was getting in the way, when i thought it was the lights the whole time, but that was only part of the problem
since this video has a cumshot and im not familiar enough with it (only my 2nd ever time using this), it gave me over a month of problems. because of how the video is, upsidedown, the cum just would NOT stick to serahs face, ever. it took forever and ever to find out the problem, my version of the add-on that makes this "stick" effect happen was outdated, it was impossible with the version i was on. after updating, i had to learn on the spot how to use it, and testing it yet again from scratch takes an insane amount of time, especially since you have to get the right settings to make it even behave like cum in the first place, its all very difficult, especially when i want it to look good even if i am still new to it, so much trial and error took up alot of time, besides the fact that blender shows you the result of all this trial and error very slowly to, so it was alot of changing one small number, waiting, going back into the animations beginning to reset it and repeat
with all ports, there will always be small animation errors/changes compared to the sfm version. i have to reanimate certain parts inside blender, and this all seems unavoidable, so im trying to fix it as best as i can. for this animation, its fine though, so no need to worry lol
as you can guess, every step of the way brang small/large problems to, and i wont list everything, so just know that i was working day and night on this tirelessly, i definately spent around 500 hours on the blender parts alone, i didnt die or go on vacation or nothin
now, since the last video cost $200 for 30 seconds (1000 frames at 60 fps), this video is 3491 frames, as you can guess, itd be too expensive, even with having a tier help with paying for the render farm, its just too much money, and this is all when the videos i make are at 720p, not 1080p, which would DOUBLE the time and cost
so, i will be rendering the first 1000 frames myself, and i have thankfully have 3 other people helping me render, alongside the renderfarm, which will render over 1000 frames, a little more than last time, so itll be over $200 again. as you can guess, this is all very messy because of how long i make my videos and make them at 60fps (which i think is too important to lower to 30fps, since i make pov/tpov content). i originally planned to work on my next thing while my renderfarm took care of all the rendering, but instead i will have to wait, since blender wont be useable while i render alot myself
since many problems have been figured out, i saved alot of things in text documents over the past few months, i have my new setup saved in blender for next time, so will something ever take SIX months just to fix up again in blender? the answer should be a fuck no, i learned an insane amount of new info over these past months when it comes to blender, so once i work on the next video and need to port that, alot of the common problems i usually get are figured out at this point, just need to find a way to get super high quality square enix graphics XD (yes i know itll never happen, but let a man dream)
i really cant apologize enough for how long this all took, especially when i thought itd be quick, since the last videos wait wasnt that bad (a month iirc), so, im very sorry
im very surprised my money amount isnt at zero, with zero patrons sticking around, but i hope you guys who do remember i exist end up liking the new video, sorry for this super long message to, blender just reeeally didnt want me to release this video or sumthin XD
time to get back into the groove of animating in sfm soon, hope to come out with more things quicker now that alot of the parts im stuck at are figured out, so lets aim for at least one more animation in our lifetimes!
Comments
esk
as long as u can download without problems from mega/google drive, ull be fine, thanks
Stephen Schneider
You are truly committed to your artform sir. I appreciate your efforts and look forward to the final product. Let me know how to download it when it is ready.
esk
no i didnt just stop workin or anything, it was full of some of the busiest days i ever had when it came to my whole nsfw career, hahaha. yeah learnin alot of new things is super important for the future when it comes to blender, but still wish this stuff wasnt so hard to figure out lol, thank you
esk
thats what i guessed, eevee is fast on my computer to, so i never need the render farm for eevee, but thanks for checkin though
esk
i... dont know how to respond XD but thank u, hahahaha
Sourcefan
I promise to fap until completion to the video in tribute the the hours of frustration you have poured into this. I like reading stuff like this ... shows your determination not to give up on your vision.
VitAnyaNaked
Okay, nevertheless, as we understood, you did not sit idly by and tried to make some progress, and this is only for your benefit, since you learned a lot of new things. Keep it up!
Celepito
Seems to be in Eevee, damit. Ah well, as long as stuff works for you.
esk
yeah, i looked around alot back then for cheap render farms that are also fast, and alot of them had prices in the thousands range for the last 30 second video, goin upwards to $6,000+, it was insane. my render farms fine imo, the same job for $200 was much more reasonable lol if i had to guess, its that fast because its in "blender eevee", i use blender cycles. any idea if hes talking about eevee or cycles though? because if thats with cycles, i will switch render farms to that one asap yeah, last video was 1000 frames, so thats $200. this videos 3491 frames, so it would be over triple the price if me and 3 others didnt help me render dont worry about feelin like a shill or sum shit XD this stuffs helpful if it fits into what im lookin for, thanks
SammyBYeeYee
Of course man, keep doin your thing, iβll be supporting you here
Celepito
If I read your post right, and if the cost stays the same, then this 3.5k frames animation would cost you a bit more than half of the previous one compared with your current render farm. (I feel like a shill '>.>)
Celepito
(You most certainly have, I just dont know how to phrase this different properly.) Have you tried looking for a different render farm? I ask, since another artist I follow found one that works very well for them: https://twitter.com/Dreamrider3D/status/1387826376225525765 "Well here's something unexpected New animation in about 2 hours. Usually renders in about 20 hours total on my PC. Decided to use @CoreWeave Concierge render farm to see how many frames I can output while im eating diner." "They rendered everything under half an hour LOL 300 4K frames in 30 minutes. Was about 10$. Definitely worth the investment." "7 seconds per frame. SEVEN."
esk
for real, it is, i just wanted it all to finish after the first few weeks, but nope, months more work was left, haha. thank you
esk
psh, yeah figurin this stuff out on the spot was extremely difficult, all of this was probably even harder than learning animation in the first place, hahaha, thank you
SammyBYeeYee
Got damb bro, thatβs a lot of shit π Thereβs a reason why I stuck around tho, I have faith in you bro. Keep doin what youβre doin, you got my utmost respect
mister_bonezone
Damn, that sounds like a hell of an ordeal But I'm glad you're still kicking despite all that
JamesSDO
It's fine, still love ya mate
Zestros
Ok
