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Back where I belong...

I forgot why I got into this whole thing... I never wanted to make traditional "films"... Lost Highway was the the "film" I saw in 1996 that changed my life and made me want to make "films"... It excited me because it was like nothing else I had seen before...it was more like a dream... I want to live and work in dreams because reality suX... So I was just talking to my friend who is a mega artist extraordinaire... I gave him a copy of the excellent short film "Maquina" I met the director Gabe Ibanez in Brazil... Maquina is very dream like and awesome... So as I was talking to my friend who will soon start making moving image thangs said "these are the kind of movies I want to make, where everything isn't explained" and just then I remembered why I got into this whole thing... Because of Sundance and sales reps and distributors and all this and that I forgot why I started in the first place... Making regular films doesn't reall

Must fight geek urge!!!

So I guess if I was like a normal director or even a pure 2d or stopmotion animator I wouldn't have such a strong urge to geek out... but alas I am a 3d animator as well AND I love geekin it up... researching new hardware...going through specs and benchmarks! Ooooh! Almost gets me as excited as reading a new volume of BerserK.... but yeh I can geek out all I want right now but I wont need any new hardware for at least another 6 months... I'm in pre-production so I've got paperwork to get to... Here's a note on my last post... In the workstation I might consider an 8800gt...I did a little more research and peeps in the c4d community tend to think it WINS... Also I want to use some of the functions I didn't get to use in WATS like SPD and hair and cloth sim...Soooooo I might choose different barebones boxes and more RAM so they can rock 4gb each... But yeh... So as I retreat in my anti-reality bubble more and more and interact with physical humans less and less I'

If I was building a new micro studio today...

So as I'm writing my next animated feature and in talks about producing a lot of other animated stuff I've been researching new hardware...Because I'll have to buy new hardware eventually... Cinema 4d is my 3d app of choice and it comes with a pretty nice network render client...If I was going to get a new workstation and mini render farm today this is what I would get... I know we wanna go out and get some macho like 8 core system but from my experience its not the best way to spend your money... Its better to get a cheaper system now so in a year or two as processors get cheaper and faster you can simply buy another similarly priced system and add your previous one to the render farm... If you spent 6k on your workstation your not going to be able to do that... So if I were to build a new workstation today it would be like the one in the image based around an AMD x2 6000...My workstation for WATS had an AMD x2 4400...its an excellent processor I must say... 4gb RAM...beca

Mayday

Mayday I was the only one under your blinding son screaming hey... mayday... I'm not okay... I was the only muthafucker bold enough to say hey... I don't like this... mayday