Kapow ! Bang !

I'm in the process of watching as many noir as i can get my eyes on and i try to get the gist of that high contrast light. It also informs me on the tropes i want to explore and mess with. I dont really want Aletheia to be a female Philip Marlow - thats already very well done with Jessica Jones. And even tho this narrative maybe a little more than what i usually do, i should remember that i playing the erotic gamble here.
I tried to fog the scene above, tried to have the ceiling lamps cast some nice rays down with no success so far. I really want that foggy atmosphere, its part of the genre, blurs the background which in turns outlines the main subjects... But i dread the render times, making a long set even longer to produce. Maybe i could go with an episodic format ?

new toys ! (octane 4)

finally updated Octane to v.4 and my ! there are a lot of new buttons to press & knobs to tweak.
It also feels faster and i wanted to test that volumetric fog thing again.

the test above is still very grainy and took 15 min to render (the character mostly at their lower definition).
i'll try some more & hopefully get some clearer result without eating too much render time - otherwise, well, the story will have to do without it.