As promised, I wanted to give you more updates over Patreon again.
I was busy this week getting the next project out as well as setting up something very cool and useful for my workflow.
1) Project Changes I decided to do a change up with the current ongoing projects. As mentioned before, I have two long animations in the making. Due to them both being kind of similar, I decided to rearrange what I already got.
1.1) The D.Va Arcade Gangbang animation got split up into 2 different parts. Part one will be the D.Va masturbation part which got a makeover this week. It will get released as a solo instead.
1.2) The group part will get merged with the D.Va gangbang train animation. This needs some swapping around of textures and backgrounds, but it should overall fit into the general theme to it also being a gangbang.
2) Home Render Farm I finally set up an actual render farm service at home. Initially, I was manually swapping workloads between machines for projects, which was a huge time loss for every camera angle.
I’m using a tool called Flamenco to manage this now. To keep it simple, it's basically a manager that lets my computers work together much better.
The main benefits for my time management are:
No more dead time: I can set it to run while I’m sleeping or away from my desk. The software automatically moves to the next task without me being there to click "start" on every machine.
Teamwork: It allows two or more machines to work on the exact same file at the same time, cutting the wait time for a single scene. (This is a big one)
Focus: Since I don't have to babysit the hardware and manually move files around anymore, I can spend that extra time actually animating the next scenes.
It's a big relief to have this running so I can focus more on the creative side.