Corporate Development Memo 10/29/2023

Hi everyone!

I am sorry for the late post today, but I have been recovering a bit this weekend from my presentation on Friday.  Just to give a little context, it's been something my company and three other companies (we did a four part presentation and I also had to close out the entire presentation for all four as the "closer" for the fifth part of the presentation which is also quite a bit of pressure) had been prepping for months.  I spent about 80-100 hours on it this week just practicing, going over everything with everyone, and generally it was my entire week.  Our group then hung out all day and night Saturday celebrating finishing it, but also going over every painstaking detail of how things went, etc.  So I crashed HARD for Sunday and have only gotten up recently.  (it's about 2pm I think right now)

So I am always honest with everyone, and this was the week I didn't do a ton of renders.  I am now at about 1,688 renders, but I did have some downtime here and there to playtest a lot of the game.   I feel like the dom side of this episode is basically about done, I have tested the main branch, a secret sub path, a K9 split, and good/evil twists as well.  Good/evil are certain flags dom Kane could have received in the past from prior decisions.  Also remember there is a split for gameshowhost flag Kane (he will help out) and refusing to help out.  I need to add music, but I feel it's pretty set for the most part.  Part 2 of Episode 8 will be a lot of stuff just in the game show itself with this part needing some setup before it.  The sub path will likely get a little farther in the game show but I'm not sure yet for Part 1.

I should know about our presentation sometime this week, so forgive my distraction a bit.  It's a gigantic client that required a big team to pitch, etc.  This is not a common thing with my business at all (in fact, it's the first time I had to go this all out for this long of a period)  so I am glad things calm down this week.  And yeah...but I should be pretty good this week to work well on everything.  I really want to hit the 2,000 render milestone!

I am surprised at how dominant Arlene is on the poll!  I have a hard time judging female faces so I am very glad I can get some feedback from Patrons for a character that I am not super set on requiring a set face.  For clarity, this is what I saw with Arlene in my own notes:

Arlene - pouty lips/big eyes, face seems to match a socialite to me...Charlotte even feels like right name for face with this New Paris family matriarch for some reason.

Maybe test FESoul Alysa, FE Teddy, and FE Surtr hairs first on her face if she wins?  Search for more G9 specific hairs...but FeSoul really good hair dev generally, search first.

https://www.daz3d.com/fe-alysa-hair-for-genesis-9 

https://www.daz3d.com/fe-teddy-hair-for-genesis-9 

https://www.daz3d.com/fe-surtr-hair-for-genesis-9 

Possible first Gen 9 hair, will have to search for G9 outfits as well.  Quality/memory differences?  

Please have a great week all!