A lot of issues this week.

Several shots from Segment 4 came back with clipping issues. I had to correct them. Jack's trousers look great but sometimes they get a bit unruly. And especially annoying as they start clipping only at high subD. meaning during the actual rendering, and not during the previews.

I also had some simulation issues in Segment 5. In my script, Jack was supposed to come into the scene wearing a jacket that he would throw on the sofa. Half a dozen shots into the segment, I realized that the jacket would be impossible to simulate. I tried several combinations of parameters for both dForce and Marvelous Designer, to no avail. It took me several hours to accept that I wouldn't be able to simulate it correctly. That was stupid. I should have let go quicker. Anyway, I had to rewrite a couple of paragraphs and get rid of that jacket off-camera.

That made me reconsider a few things in the flow of the segment. I made another cut but I'm not really satisfied. I'll probably have to improvise a bit in the posing. The render count should stay the same, however.

And to conclude with the issues of this week, I decided that Jack should take a shower in that scene. And it's not going well. The water looks like crap. I'm looking for a solution.

Not everything is dark, however.

I progressed on the rendering front. I rendered up to shot #189, and even if I have some shots to rerun, I'm satisfied with what I'm seeing. The light looks good, details too. Even the shots I was worried about in Segment 3 came out better than I expected.

I have about 35 shots left to pose. The next ten will be a bit intense to work on but I should be able to finish it next week. I don't see how I could encounter any issues in the remaining shots.

The quick sum up :

• Day 6 Part 4 will contain 2 new scenes: scenes 26 and 27.
• Day 6 Part 4 will contain 2 reworked scenes from Day 2, Scenes 1 and 10.
• Day 2, Scene 1 and 10 have been rewritten, posed and rendered.
• Day 6, Scene 26 has been written, posed and rendered. Scene 27 is written. Posing and rendering are ongoing.
• 9549 words of reworked content, and 12723 words of new content so far.
• 2007 lines of code so far.
• 701 shots are planned, 666 are posed, and 655 are rendered.
• I'm working on posing scene 27.

You can follow my progress on this Trello board.

Thank you for your support!

The Naughty Captain