Beyond the hill is a never ending learning experience. When we last left off, I was all guns blazing animating the short film, until sometime in June 2013, I hit a huge brick wall, the project was half way done, suddenly I realised that the characters were no appealing, simply put they were UGLY. So I sat down and devised a plan to create studio quality characters. I am still pursuing that goal today. MONTHS AGO I ported the project to a ray tracer called cycles. I am currently using cycles to render the project, this gives me more appealing images and dear I say awesome visuals, I mean seriously check out the character below. Compare the two, which would you pick? The goal is to emulate studio quality.
This kind of quality however comes at a price; you require a super computer to render frames at much fast rate, I mean come on I own a 4 core Intel machine, which renders 1 frame in 1 hour 1 frame in 1 hour!!!!! .........I know it’s depressing! Do the math 10 minute movie 24 frames = 1 sec playback 1 min = 60 secs 10 min = 600 secs 600 secs * 24 frames = 14 400 frames 1 frame takes = 1 hour to render 14 400 frames = 14 400 hours 14 400 hours = 600 days I don’t know about you but I am not spending 600 days rendering a film only to notice something wrong later on and am forced to go back and make corrections, then re render another 100 or so frames. Exhausting! I am faced with only one option; create a render farm, what is a render farm you may ask, well money.......hmmm money which I don’t have! Sigh! All is not lost though, I have decided to create television show with hopes that I may sell it and generate the much needed cash flow required to set up a small studio, one with a render farm that will allow production of an animation feature film a reality, so this year the is only one goal raise funds. The project is currently slowly coming along, who knows if things go according to plan we may work on it together by the end of this year. Hey y'all, I created this test about 2 months ago, i haven't' been able put more production hours, coz currently i have to PAY THOSE BILLS(u know work).. so i barely get to do anything major but its getting there! anyway it took about 3 minutes to render this frame u see above and i just realized that these renders are killing my pc, so i am currently taking time out to build a new PC rig from buying parts, so after i do that it we will be firing i through all cylinders.
Later! Building Models These are just some of the models that will be used to complete the city, the city will feature semi destroyed buildings and completely destroyed buildings. The city will convey a war torn city. The next post will feature a few African Huts, I'm planning on creating an village scene, alright. Later!
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AuthorTheetso Xavier Matongo 3D /2D animator Archives
February 2015
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