Hey again, quick update. I had some things to do last weekend but managed to kind of finish the mini-set yesterday. The problem was that when I tried to render it earlier today, no end of problems began to surface. I had used a new environment/props for the mini-set and apparently it just did not want to work with octane at all. I have spent almost four hours today trying to fix this, but I gave up fixing the old scene after two hours and just redid the entire environment for the mini-set. However then this new scene had memory problems due to my single, limited card, so a few of the images I planned to make simply won’t work. I will still have 4-5 images for the mini-set which is what it is supposed to have, but I had wanted to do more; however it just isn’t going to happen with my limited equipment. (Maybe I can revisit this in a later mini-set later on once I get better equipment.)

I just can’t finish the last few renders/postwork tonight, I hope to finish it tomorrow. I have everything fixed so there shouldn’t be any other freaky problems/further delays unless I find some way to get the other images working. So hopefully there will be a preview of this posted sometime tomorrow. Side note, the poll is looking really nice with some rather surprising results; but there is still plenty of time for things to change.

I have just finished the construction portion of making the new set, and it looks great. However, I see this potentially going into at least tomorrow and possibly into Tuesday; (I will be busy on Monday, very low chance of time to work on this) not just because of the various real life crap I have had to deal with all week, but also because of me again failing to keep the set at the target twenty images. Part two as it currently stands is around 18 images, and Part one is around 16. I am almost certainly going to have to cut some things… but overall the set will likely be at least 30 images if I can keep it that low. I may get more time later today and be able to work on final renders, but I think this is unlikely. It is possible that I can finish it tomorrow but I think there is at least two days of work left to do; which is mostly due to the set being larger than it should be once again. (The real life crap didn’t help either.) Long story short, bigger sets take longer; this ended up being bigger than planned again. Oh and I did manage to work in a lot of the things from the last special poll in some capacity.

EDIT 4/26: Real life still not cooperating; so Tuesday or Wednesday.

EDIT 4/29: Final renders and clean versions of each image done; I just can’t finish the rest today. Should be able to get it done tomorrow. Set ended up being 35-ish images, (instead of 20) and they are also higher quality than I originally intended. (I figured out some new stuff in Octane to fix some things… after I had done much of it already the old way.) It all looks really nice and unless something horrible happens I plan to finish the composition/story part tomorrow. Sorry for the multiple delays, but again the set is twice as large as i had initially planned; also hopefully it looks better now than it did with these changes.

Hey again. I have had all sorts of real life things to deal with the past few days, leaving me little time to work on this set. I will get it done as soon as I can, but it seems unlikely to happen before the coming weekend now. It may still get done before the weekend, but don’t expect it to be. More votes in the current poll would be great too.

Hey. I have posted a very early preview of the next set to Patreon for all Patron tiers. I have gotten the second half of what I wanted in the set working but am having some small memory issues getting the first part working. (It really is hilarious how Octane has completely inverted my workflow/situation…) I will almost certainly figure something out, so no worries probably. A more finished preview will be posted here in the next few days, as I am trying hard to have this set done by mid next week at the absolute outside. The set is looking good so far. I could use more votes in the current poll about VN interest as well.

So this is taking longer than I thought it would, no surprise there. However it is looking great and I probably should have made two separate, large sets out of this but oh well. I have finished final renders on part one, and some of part two. I actually will have a fair bit of time tomorrow and I hope to finish it then but I can’t say for sure after how today went. (Part one was the far more intensive bit to render with three figures which I realistically cannot do. I kept fixing/improving things when I probably shouldn’t have, which all contributes to why it took so long.) This will almost certainly be my largest and best set yet, and I don’t want to rush it too much. I will say for sure that it will be done by the end of the month, so it will be done late on Tuesday at the absolute outside.

EDIT 3/30: Final renders are done, clean versions of all images and postwork is done, but I still have to finish composition. I rarely do much actual postwork, but I actually had to do a fair bit this time due to various Octane related reasons. Composition is putting the text/story in each image, and that should get done tomorrow. I might get it done tonight but I really doubt it. I would post the set previews now, but I am not sure if I will keep all the images I have set right now, I may change one or two depending on how the composition goes. (I plan to post the clean versions with maybe one or two story images since clean images is beating story images in the poll two to one.)

Also a reminder; my new sets will be Patreon exclusive for at least three months, so if you want to get access to them early and support my work, my Patreon is here: http://www.patreon.com/redleatherart. I now plan to email newer Patreon rewards to each Patron accordingly after payment clears at the start of each month, so keep that in mind as well.

So I made the basic scene that I was planning for the other part of this new set, and luckily I though to test it in Octane before doing much work on it. The models and environment that I planned to use go a fair way over the limits that I have to work with inside Octane, and can’t be used with the hardware I currently have. This means that I now have to come up with some alternate plan for the second part of this set, which I may not be able to work out before the end of the month.

The first part is done as far as construction/writing goes, (the first part was supposed to be about 2/3 of the set’s total images, similar to the last one) and it alone could/would cover the 20 images I usually shoot for in a large set; so worst case scenario I may need to delay this second part into next month and make it the next chapter or part of it. I will do the best that I can to fit this in this month, but this kind of screws my original plan and I now have to rethink/rewrite a bunch of crap. (At the very least I didn’t do all the work only to find out that it wouldn’t render.)

In other news, the current polls end at the end of the month, so vote in those before they close. Also for those that actually read these messages and/or this far down in them, I plan to do some kind of special poll next month for the next main set; though I am not sure which kind to run yet. So watch for that a bit later.

RE-EDIT – 3/28: So I figured out another plan for part two, and am halfway done with it. I should be able to finish the set construction today, and do the composition/postwork bit tomorrow if all goes well. Ok so set construction is done, minus a few small fixes and tweaks. I should only have one problem to deal with as far as rendering goes, but I think I may have a way around it. (I will know tomorrow.) I am going to try to finish the composition/postwork tomorrow, but the set seems like it may be larger than I intended; part two is as big as part one. So I may or may not cut some things, but Octane at least makes renders much faster than poser so I may be able to use most of it. Note: there is a lot of composition work to do on this, this might run into Monday; it depends on how much I can manage to do tomorrow.