I totally agree. Also, that sounds like a wonderful project :) You should post project updates somewhere to keep track of your model as it evolves!
Also I realize there's a lot of image prep work required, not to mention I have a less than ideal amount of VRAM (3060 Ti w/8GB but no monitors attached i.e. 8GB free) so I have to lower some settings. The source images have to be in 1:1 format (which none of my photos are) so I'm using a script to batch call ImageMagick's 'convert' to add white borders to the top/bottom, which results in my renders also having white borders.
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