Emily appears
Added 2020-05-22 05:35:14 +0000 UTCEmily's first appearance in the game is pivotal, and in my head I had a perfect image. Sadly I didn't have the skills to do anything about it :) I've been chewing on this one a couple of times. This is the third attempt, and at this point I'm actually quite happy.
Patreon won't let me link more than 1 video: here's an overview of the 3 attempts
https://vimeo.com/421388897
This video was more talking about doing a shot breakdown.
Asset wise; the backgrounds are stock photos from Shutterstock; Emily's rendered in DAZ, then run through Denoiser/DAIN to improve the framerate and look (without cooking my GPU in the process). The particle effects are stock, with just a quick color tuning pass applied.
One thing that's a bit hard to know when you do DAZ animations is timing. The final version felt really slow-motion, and lacked weight. I *could* redo the animation, but that's another 5-6 hours of rendering, even assuming I get it right. Instead I used After Effect's ability to re-time animation clips, essentially speeding up playback speeds in certain parts of the clip, return to normal once she lands.
If you guys enjoy these things, let me know... obviously it's a lot easier to put together a breakdown than the full video, but it's still work, and I don't want to spam you :)
