Hello!
The render count is up to 1532, with 16/27 scenes complete. The scene I was working on ended up being a little over 200 renders, so it's nice to have it finished now and be able to move on to the next thing.
I've now started work on another quite long scene. I'd like it to be mostly finished by the next dev log, but I'm not sure if that will actually be possible. The scene will actively contain fifteen characters, and once background people have been added where needed the scenes are taking typically about 8 minutes just to load (and around 30 seconds to save). The performance while working on the scenes is okay, occasionally it'll freeze up briefly, but crucially I've had no crashes as of yet, despite working very close to the maximum memory.
I feel like now I'm officially over 1500 renders I can call the chapter halfway complete. I don't think it'll hit 3000 total (my best guess currently is 2700), but now being over 1500 means I can fairly safely assume that we're at least halfway through, closer to the finish line than the start.
Thank you all for the support as always!