Development on the next beta started with setting up the restaurant location where your dates with Alice and Mia take place. I picked a very fancy looking restaurant set as my base and added a bit of exterior scenery that is visible through the windows and made some interior adjustments. I have also created the character model for the restaurant's maître d'. After that I went about posing all of the shots for the arrival scene of Alice's date. Finally, I needed to populate the background with extras to keep the restaurant from looking empty. After that it was a matter of testing things to optimize renders for this scene. After playing with some things, I believe I have found an excellent balance of render quality and performance that is producing some nice renders. Next I will move on to setting up the Mia arrival scene so that I can get the creation of the second set of extras out of the way. After that I will move back to finishing up the rest of the scenes for Alice's date at the restaurant before I move back to Mia's date. I'm actually progressing a little more quickly than I expected so far, but there is still a very large amount of content between these two dates, almost 300 images and 35 animations, so I doubt it will be done by the end of October, but I should be able to have it ready sometime in November.