Case Log #14 Ch5

It has been a curious week. After the promo render of the mayor, I got going on scene 7 in earnest...or that was what I was thinking. I managed 2 renders averaging about 3.5 hrs a piece. At that pace we'll see chapter 5 release Christmas 2035. I've been up against it with hard drive space on my desktop for the longest time and haven't wanted to deal with it for the same amount of time. Until now. Render being slow was probably not just a symptom of a space issue, but it didn't help.

Tuesday night, after stupidly waiting 7 hours for renders that needed post denoising anyway, I decided to clean up the HD. I've made a few passes on organizing my assets, but the methods have always been less than perfect and left me with more duplicates and less easy to find. So I erased a few versions of daz, all assets and cleared a ton of space. Wednesday I started to install only assets that are used or potentially used for Pecker. And they will be organized in a way that makes sense to me. This, of course, is tedious work. I hate tedious work. Some people get satisfaction out of this kind of monotony, but it drives me insane. And all I want to do is to render. No turning back now though. On Tuesday, I hope to get all assets needed, installed and catalogued. After that I hope to feel like there is some long term time savings in doing this to make it worth "The Shining" moments I am having, "All work and no play-", you know?

Sorry, this is becoming more of a Discord "Pocket-Diary" moment than a case log. The positive work accomplished this week has been 2 very average renders, one nice promo and image post work completed for scenes 1-6, which is the real progress this week. It usually doesn't happen until toward the end of the process, but this will speed things up a bit when putting it together in Renpy.

Cheers!