Good news, info's and behind the scenes stuff! (Patreon)

I already talked about it on my Discord but in case you're not there I have some great news to tell!

GPU Upgrade

My previous GPU died a couple of days ago and after I made sure it's 100% a GPU issue, I ordered a new- and much better one! (1080ti) It wasn't really in my budged but it wouldn't have been worthwhile to buy my old GPU again to upgrade once again in a couple of months.

Anyway, the performance of the 1080ti is honestly amazing. I'm not only to work on bigger scenes without issues, I'm also positive that I can at least double my render speed!

So technically I could render 8 pics a night, though I can usually not produce 8 pics a day so now I am the bottleneck - which is honestly great as that gives me more freedom to render extra pics for social media and also those said pics in 4k instead of FullHD. 

And if some renders fail, or when I notice mistakes, it won't be a problem to just render a pic again! Not to mention that my viewport performance in DAZ has increased tremendously which is a major quality of life improvement for me.

In the second pic of this post you have a comparison. The top pic shows a crop of one of the pics in the last album which rendered for 3 hours with a Denoiser enabled. However, especially at the eyes you can see that the Denoiser didn't have enough pixels to work with which made it create compression artifacts that just don't look pretty. You can see the same with the hair on the right. It looks like a bad JPEG compression when the original pic is a PNG.

The bottom pic I rendered today in just 1 hour and you can see a massive improvement in those categories. A lot less compression artifacts and it took only a third of the time. So this means that I can, to a certain extend, provide you guys with higher quality results and at the same time spend less time rendering - it's honestly a dream come true.  

What's next

I already posted an update about the next two upcoming albums, you can find that post here.

I started working on Kendall's new album first! In the top pic you can see Kendall's new room and the location of the next album (especially the area in the bottom right).

Behind the scenes

Today I prepared the scene so I can work smoothly and start posing! This took a lot of time but in the end saves so much frustration to keep it organized.

I made sure the scene is aesthetically and practically well lit, that all lights have the correct values and colors, the cameras have the right settings, the textures are compressed based on distance to the area where the action is taking place, that all models have groups assigned so I can hide them when they're not in place, that the important assets are easily accessible aaaaaand... some other stuff.  

I feel like I'm not posting enough behind the scenes stuff, so in case someone is interested how it looks like to prepare a scene, the last pic in here is my workspace with all the assets, cameras, lights, etc. that I prepared. 

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That's it for this post! First previews are being posted on my Discord either later today or tomorrow!

Make sure to join my Discord to stay up-to-date, as I'm more active there and usually just summarize a few days later on Patreon.

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