Happy Friday the 13th! I guess I’d better write enough for certain people to make jokes on, this week! You know who you are. I’m watchin’ you.
“We Will Rock You” is the centerpiece scene for this chapter, because it’s the biggest (both in terms of characters and information), so naturally it’s the one giving me headaches. Every chapter has had the “big scene” in it, like the Gala in Chapter Two (though I haven’t made another scene that big, since!), and it’s the one I really gotta make sure to do just right. After the clipping and rerender issues, I started to do that part of the scene again, then got frustrated with the camera angles.
I was using a fully pre-made set for the house, and I struggled quite a lot with it… so I just rebuilt the entire house in an empty house asset I had. I used furniture and decorations from various packs, which makes sense for the kind of house a band would crash in together. In the end, not only do I think this set looks better than what I was using, but it renders much faster. I’d say I’m about 75% done with this scene, as a result. That means (hopefully) next week I can finish rendering this one and the sex scenes (it’s one scene, but for male and female MC, so it’s really two), and then comes the testing.
I still have to do postwork on the images I’ve rendered, but I don’t foresee that part taking very long since the lighting is doing a lot of the heavy lifting I often save for Photoshop.
Last weekend Morgana and I went to the World Oddities Expo! We’ve been going every year it’s come to Baltimore, and it’s always a pretty good time. It’s basically a shopping trip for us, but one where we can dress up all gothy.
This year was a little different, however – The Baltimore Orioles (our baseball team) apparently did some kind of big special thing so they were having an important game on Saturday. I don’t follow sports so not sure if it was Wimbledon or whatever. Also happening that day was a Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks concert. It was a big day in Baltimore, and the train was packed. Some douchebag spilled beer on me. You’re not supposed to have beer on the train, to begin with, but it was ten in the morning.
But once we got to the Convention Center it was great.
Early this week I got very sick. I actually called in sick to work on Tuesday, and not just because I didn’t feel like working! I hope today is the last of my stomach woes because this weekend (and the next) we’re going to the Maryland Renaissance Festival!
The weather looks like it’s gonna be chilly! I love when it’s not hot because then I can wear full garb and not feel sweaty and gross. I wish they had the Ren Fest in the winter, but alas.
… A lot of my activities seem to involve getting dressed up. Maybe I go out more often than I realize. I’m not a social person, I swear!
Chapter Five Scene Progress: All scenes written and coded!
- Fairy Tail, Part Two – Complete!
- Doing the Dailies – Complete!
- We Will Rock You – Almonst done, I hope…
- Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay Sauce, Served in a Provençale Manner, with Shallots and Aubergines, Garnished with Truffle Pâté, Brandy, and with a Fried Egg on Top — and Spam – Complete!
- To Hell With Andrew Lloyd Weber– Complete!
- I Choose You! – Complete!
- Sex Scene – Written
Chapter Five Other:
- Chapter Five Achievements (1/4)
- Unnamed Mara Render
- Canon Ship
- My Heart Will Go On – Complete!
- Porno for Pyros
- Digestive Status – Despair
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine