Decreasing render times

[Setsanto]

Well, I've reduced everything down, and I'm now at about a 3:30 render. Doesn't look quite as good, but oh well. I turned all the settings up to what I wanted them and just for jokes and ended up staring at my screen for nigh on 15 minutes, so all for the best I guess...

~Setsanto

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Setsanto

Well, I've reduced everything down, and I'm now at about a 3:30 render. Doesn't look quite as good, but oh well. I turned all the settings up to what I wanted them and just for jokes and ended up staring at my screen for nigh on 15 minutes, so all for the best I guess...

~Setsanto

You have a week, get on it this weekend and let your computer/computers render the entire week. I suggest you render out in a targa sequence file and combined them all in a third party program so you do not lose all your data if your computer crashes.

Oh and FYI: Your animations will never look as good as you want them to be. It's just something you have to deal with. Every time I look at my animations I always think "My goodness!! That looks awful! I could have made it look better." Even my personal project right now I think looks god awful. I've even talked to professionals and they say that they always cringe when they see their own work. The problem is that you see your work as what it should be and not what it is. A fresh pair of eyes, who knows animation, will be able to tell you if its good or not.

If you do look back at your previous work and do not cringe, that is a BAD thing. It means you are not growing as an artist.

[Sergio]

Anyone want to enlighten me on how to network render?

I have a guy that's bring in a CPU with 16 gig ram and some quad core $@#$@#$@#$@#. The computers we're running are already pretty pwn.... so if we could network up with the ultra pwn cpu it would be a huge help.

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Sergio

Anyone want to enlighten me on how to network render?

I have a guy that's bring in a CPU with 16 gig ram and some quad core $@#$@#$@#$@#. The computers we're running are already pretty pwn.... so if we could network up with the ultra pwn cpu it would be a huge help.

Here is the best way of network rendering. You be the network. Go around and assign each computer specific frames and have them render it. Then take the video clips and combined them in a third party program. If you dont know how to set up the network now, you probably want to play it safe and not take any risk because its getting down to the wire.

[Sergio]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

Here is the best way of network rendering. You be the network. Go around and assign each computer specific frames and have them render it. Then take the video clips and combined them in a third party program. If you dont know how to set up the network now, you probably want to play it safe and not take any risk because its getting down to the wire.

remember that one time you doubted when scheiße was down to the wire and you said for me not to try it... then i did... and it worked... and it was awesome...

dont doubt me bro....
dont doubt me..

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Sergio

remember that one time you doubted when scheiße was down to the wire and you said for me not to try it... then i did... and it worked... and it was awesome...

dont doubt me bro....
dont doubt me..

I'm not doubting anyone, If you believe you can do it, go for it. If you have absolutely no idea how to get computers to speak to each other, you may want to stay the safe route. Either way, do what is in your ability, there are only 13 days left to have a complete animation. Its not a lot of time to be dabbing into unknown territory.

[Sergio]

well i got our electrical and programing team to hook some scheiße up. so its cool now.



<--devon likes that smiley.

[Testament-Doom]

You know... being almost down to the wire with the animation, and STILL have a lot to do because of some local problems, I'm just sooooo glad that everything's kept simple in this animation, that I can render the whole thing (if it gets completed) in a couple of hours or less.