I’ll take a raincheck on that render, please.

I have a partial render of the animation so far. It would be posted above, but .mp4 seems to cause errors in Tumblr, so I will need to convert it or re-author it or maybe put it on Vimeo.

The wolphin swims along. The light grows slowly nearer. When they interact, the light brightens to warm the wolphin, then it is gone.

I put it together in Premiere, importing all the frames that I had rendered. The frames looked fine, but still I am getting this washed out effect in the final render. My guess is something to do with gamma, but I have no clue where to start fixing it at this point. There are doubtless hundreds of workarounds for this, but I want to know why it looks wrong, so I can avoid it properly.

I am happy with how my scene is going at this point, but I need to enhance the story a bit.