Chapter 3 Rendering Phase Complete!

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This week didn't go as I expected. Here where I live, we got hit pretty hard by the weather. We had a lot of rain and especially strong winds.

On Tuesday night, the power went out while I was in the middle of rendering. Then I literally spent all of Wednesday and Thursday without electricity. ..🫩. I used Friday and Saturday to catch up on all the renders I couldn't finish during the week.

The good news is that, even with the delay, I still managed to finish all the renders.

I'm happy to say that Chapter 3's rendering phase is now complete! The final render count is... 2850 renders! 🎉

Needless to say, this is by far the biggest chapter I've worked on so far. I honestly didn't expect the number to get this high when I started working on Chapter 3.

My original goal for every chapter in Season 1 (except for Chapter 1, since it's the prologue) was to keep them at around 2000 renders. I thought that was a good balance between content and development time.

But now that I have a better PC and more experience than I did a year ago, I decided to push beyond that limit.

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My goal is to keep each chapter's development time under 6 months. Ideally, around 4 to 4½ months for rendering, and the rest for coding, adding music and sound effects, testing, and polishing.

Whether those extra 850 renders were worth it is something I'll probably be able to answer later. Every extra render means more time spent coding scenes, adding sound effects and music, and testing everything.

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Because of the power outage this week, I couldn't quite finish everything on the schedule I had planned. My goal was to finish rendering on Thursday and spend the rest of the week organizing everything, renaming the renders, and doing the color and gamma corrections.

I might work on that today, but I don't know... I'm pretty tired. 😅 Sundays are usually my day off, and I wanna watch the World Cup final hehe.

(Next week, the coding phase begins.)

Hope you all have a great week.

—pixelend 🧟