Some Messages
Added 2021-10-26 10:56:40 +0000 UTCHi guys.
As we're waiting for our renders to finish, I thought to inform you of what's going on in the meantime, and what you should expect later this week.
1) Since we have quite a few new Patrons, we'll send invitations to our Patreon-only Discord room. This will happen in Friday, at the latest. We're waiting a bit, since new Patrons are still coming over, and we want to send a mass of invitations all at once.
2) Later this week (exact day TBD), we will reveal the basic stories and ideas of a couple of games we are working on, that will take place in our XTZ Universe. These are now at very early stages of development, and just in the synopsis level, but will receive more and more attention as we grow - both in hardware and (more importantly) manpower.
3) By this Sunday (which is also the end of the month), our Patrons will receive their weekly tokens of our appreciation, which may consist of rudimentary animation clips, with varying resolutions (depending on tiers).
These will by no means be what we call true animation, coming from the film and TV industry, but it will definitely be nice and more lively than simple photos (which you will still get, of course).
The main reason for the compromise we make in frame-rate is that all we have to render, right now, iRay is an RTX 3060 non-Ti, coupled with our lovely Ryzen 9 5950X (which shouldn't even be rendering!).
We have a couple of extremely powerful workstations we use for our Maya and RenderMan work, but they have professional AMD Radeon Pro cards, that don't work with iRay.
The first item on our shopping list is a very strong nVidia card, with as many Cuda cores as we can afford.
And then you'll see how Paula really moves!
;)
All the best,
Team XTZ
