Release 2 Update 17

Similarly productive week bopping along with this scene's still renders and script! Even though I had some delays, most notable delay was that I had staged and rendered something like 20 images before realizing that the floor texture in this room was shitty as hell! then I realized also that I wasn't effectively using sunlight coming in through the window blinds, which adds a lot of drama and interest. So I fixed both of those issues in each file and re-rendered nearly all of those images. I guess it's just the perfectionist in me, but also you sometimes get so focused on pushing the story forward to completion that you miss significant quality problems. The revised files includes the last one in last week's update (TAG-C-235), so I've replaced the old file on Google Drive with the new version for any who'd like to download it and compare. (Edit: I just discovered that I forgot to load last week's images to Google Drive! So: apologies, but I just did so, along with the ones in this update)

I've also made the difficult desicion to NOT do an animation in this scene. partially it's a time and deadline concern, but also I realized that creating what would essentially be a short wrestling animation between two characters (and difficult because of the close contact between two bodies) would essentially require me to create all animation from scratch, without even an existing animation sequence I could purchase to base my final animation on. I had thought there were some reasonable wrestling ani's out there (and even possibly already in my own library) but thorough research showed this wasn't the case.

This next week I will continue plugging through this scene (and actually the next, since I'm just about to the end of this scene! However, in addition I'll be starting to generate some AI voice files. The AI voice engine I've been using (ElevenLabs) has created some major upgrades since I completed the first release (as I'd hoped they would!), and it's time to play with it and see how much better it is!