is everyone happy the animations are sent?!

[3dfernando]

Originally Posted by Cjmovie

Our team's animation didn't quite make it this year: It was done with ~3-4 days to spare, but the rendering took much longer than expected. We used a render farm composed of a dual 3.7GHz xeon and a few other p4's but it didn't finish in time. The Xeon was taking about 4 minutes per frame, and the P4's hardly did half of that speed. When we started it out first, we would've had it done with over a day to spare, but 3DS Max kept crashing on the computers around frame 10. In the end, we just couldn't get it done. However, I've volunteered the use of my computer to render it and it should be rendered in a little over a day total.
Sadly, this is the second year in a row this has happened to our team. But next year....We'll be prepared! :-)

Our renderer crashed a lot while we rendered... but we saved as image sequence, so it wasn't a mess... But a render that would take 2 days, took 6 days on a 4gb 3.5 pentium 4 .... And this computer was assigned to 400 frames...While the other pentium 4 2.5ghz with 1 gb ram didn't crash and made more than 350 frames within 3 days... Strange =p
And we disabled screensaver and these things, but it still crashed, and when the render was ready, we had only 2 days to make the animation and figure out how to use that codec...

The result was obvious... We had 2 hours to upload that file... And we thought zipping it would be a good idea =p... BAH we were wrong... and it didn't even warn us BEFORE the upload, so we lost 1 hour uploading a zipped file to know it was forbidden... Now here we go without ava submission...

But first isn't this...Me and the other animator learned a lot from this... one of the things we learned was: Don't leave things for the last hour... It will always blast on your face =)

And since FIRST isn't competition, we are satisfied we at least made an animation, even if we couldn't submit it =)