So, with the Kish dildo animation in the final rendering phase, and no work left to do on my part aside from waiting, I shifted my focus back to the Hit the Showers.
Since I'm using a different rendering engine than I was when I last worked on this, all of the materials had to be converted, which was no small task and was the focus of today's animation stream.
After the stream, I replaced the characters with new versions that I had meticulously created the fur for and copied the animation over to them.
So here's my first test render of Hit the Showers using the Redshift rendering engine (Hence the title of this post. Is it clever? I thought it was but I'm exhausted ATM and I'm not sure anymore LOL). It's a bit noisy and is rendering at 13 mins per frame, which is slower than I'd prefer, but considering it's rendering nearly 5 million fur strands and using brute force for global illumination, that speed is damn impressive! BTW, this is the first time a test render for this video has had the characters furred! Rendering with fur in a single pass like this wasn't an option for me until recently...
Anyways, enjoy! I'm going to sleep.