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johnar I agree About the crashing/freezing. Fortunately, I haven't had a freeze since Steve fixed it, a couple of builds ago, I believe. It happened kinda often when dealing with IK. I'm glad this didn't happen for a while, but i I'll have some more problems with that, I'll let you know/screen rec.

johnar Cool, man!
Have you tried to make the frames like 1/50 or 1/60 when exporting gifs? I had this problem a while back when exporting gifs with photoshop. I was annoyed when ps gifs run slowly

johnar Hell Yeah!

Very nice work, indeed! Rock on!

thecolclough Usually I export png sequences, and most of the time I save/re-export the files into MOV files compressed with PNG compression or Photo-JPED compression. Also, I found very useful to have them MP4 files with H.264.
But yeah, sometimes an external disk drive comes handy

I also had some 4K projects, but I've combined some techniques to make a photorealistic render in Scanline. Fortunately, in my case, I didn't need to have reflections or refractions.
And yeah, 4k files are huge, no matter if you export png, jpg, mp4 or mov.
But good job.

Hey. I made this after reading your post. Dunno if it's going to help or inspire.

Steve My personal opinion:It is useful to have the IK controllers renderable. Sometimes, for a presentation, demo or for showing/explaining to the clients can be very useful. And just turning the IK off when final rendering.
Also, Steve... Let's say I have to render the cat, and I have a separate layer for the fur. In figure mode, I add the body mesh layer and the fur layer and rig them both to the bones. I hide the fur, to be able to animate faster only the body mesh. But in the scene mode, the fur still shows. Can you make it not to show the hidden layers?
When I want to render, I simply go back in figure mode, and Shift+H the fur layer, and it should show in scene mode.

Same thing when I have a hipoly mesh. I could rig the Hipoly and the LowPoly mesh. When I make the animation, I hide the Hipoly, and work with Lowpoly. When rendering, Show the HiPoly Mesh.

The second point I wanna make. Let's say I made an animation, and I click the figure, selecting all the layers. Unfortunately, I can not copy all the layers in the figure at once. This can be useful. And I remember some old build had that feature. If I have the same figure in two scenes, and I simply want to copy the keyframes from first scene FigureA to second scene FigureA ?