The Frog Does Leap! (5/7)

UPDATE FROM LAST TIME!

I made a big mistake - it was 30 hours, not 30 minutes. So, I said no to that and cranked hte settings back down. Hopefully the tutor for our pipeline-based lessons will let me render through his class - I'd like to take notes from him anyways and I don't wanna risk slowing Maya down by having two files open at the same time.

Here's my new plan - get as much of the animation rendered today, and then get the rest rendered tomorrow. I will have to re-render frame 9, but I can cope with that.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. (I'm joking, I'm just annoyed that I misread my own maths and thought it would render lickety split).

So, I'm not gonna have any kind of finished render to show for today, but hey I got some pages made!

I'm so glad I caught this error now, I'd be sat here all day waiting for this thing to render otherwise.

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