Danganronpa 10th Anniversary Project: The V3 Trial Grounds

I'm quite happy with the way this turned out.

The bulk of the project and the original three renders (Old) were done in an extreme sprint from 2020/11/20 to 2020/11/25 that was streamed on Twitch. I have the VODs archived on YouTube, but I have yet to release them publicly. I might do so later. The deadline was Danganronpa's 10th Anniversary. This meant I had to finish it before the end of 2020/11/25 JST. Due to this, the first three renders weren't the best quality wise. They had to be rendered at 1920*1080 at 512 samples and using AI denoising. Made it with 7 minutes to spare.

Once the deadline was over, I could take my time rendering and I also could add little touches here and there. I updated the materials, improved the lighting, and improved the compositing. Not to mention that I made a bunch of extra renders and even some animations. The final renders were at 3840*2160 at 4096 samples. Showcase renders are 2160*3840 and 1920*1080 both at 2048 samples.

As for the animations, I had to heavily drop the quality since I didn't wanna spend the next year rendering. 32 samples for all of them with AI denoising. 1920*1080 at 60 FPS for the Nonstop Debate. 60 FPS could be considered excessive, but I wanted it to feel like the game. The two showcase animations are at 1080*1920. First one is 60 FPS and second one is 30 FPS. That was purely for render time reasons. Also, the showcase animations are supposed to loop, but YouTube doesn't allow that.

2020/11/25 and 2020/12/14