Ya know being a "computer animator" er whatever its easy to lose sight of whats really important when making films with computers... you begin to put too much emphasis on the technology...on the system specs etc... Like yeh having a PC with 64gb of ram will make a better film than one wth 8gb?! So yeh I've been guilty of this lately.... tweaking with the system WAY more than I should be... I made WATS with a dual core 2.2ghz PC with 2gb of ram and an old AGP video card...I need to remember this... the tech doesn't matter... the ideas do... So I pledge to move forward with 12gb of ram or 4gb whatever it doesn't matter as long as it doesnt get in my way... HERE I GO! THIS HAND OF MIND SHINES WITH AN AWESOME POWER AND ITS TELLING ME TO DEFEAT YOU!!!!...oh wait thats just carpal tunnel....bye.
UPDATED 2_27_13! RENDER USING EXR Lossy Zip16! Since I'm working on a new feature film that will generate over 1500 shots made up of image sequences I need to make sure I choose the right file format to render to lest my hard drives explode. What I need from my format is at least 16bit, an alpha included and preferably small size. I rendered out a frame from my film tallied up all the file sizes here- their all different types of codecs listed from smallest file size to largest. The render includes an RGBA pass, Depth pass, and Material Luminance pass because thats what I always render out. 1.00mb 8bit-Photo Jpeg %100 1.27mb 8bit-PNG 4.65mb 16bit- EXR lossy ZIP16 5.75mb 8bit-PSD 6.23mb 16bit-EXR lossy PLZ 6.44mb 16bit-PNG 7.94mb 8bit-TIFF 8.50mb 16bit-EXR Lossy 24 9.05mb 16bit-EXR Lossy Run Length 14.6mb 8bit-TARGA 22.4mb 32bit-EXR ZIP16 24.6mb 32bit-EXR Zip1 25.6mb 32bit-EXR PLZ 29.3mb 16bit-TIFF 29.3mb 16bit-PSD 40.0mb 32bit-EXR Run Length 58.7mb 16
Dude keep moving foreward, your mind is the most powerful weapon! I got a little caught up with that too when I saw you had a awesome render farm but I'm going to keep it real with my Mac Book and PC with 2GB of ram.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the new film man.
P.S. I totally like marked out to you on my page.
Appreciate your constantly checking yourself to make sure you are on track. I know the lure of tech, but you are absolutely right: it's all just a tool, the story is what matters. It's what you do best, MDot.
ReplyDeleteWe are all right behind you. Keep moving forward, brother!
Thanks d00ds! I'm back on it and unless my computers on fire I'm not gonna worry about it...WHATS THAT SMOKE??!!? ^ ^
ReplyDeleteYea d00d totally me and Popcorn Man have been talking and came to the same conclusion. Even if we had nothing but a pen and a roll of toliet paper we'd still be using that to make our stuff so in the end the tech is just that, a means to an end.
ReplyDeleteGood post, its hard to resist the allure of high end hardware...