Roger
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How long are your renders taking?
It depends, of course, but in average 3-5 minutes for a 1280x640 9xmultipass frame without hair/particles.
You should get in a time machine and go tell 1987 me that the day would come when it would not take 5-15 hours per 320x240 frame with no hair or particles even if you wanted them.
True, I remember trying to do single-frame Povray renders on my 286 and them taking all night since I didn't have a math coprocessor.
That said, if you could do those renders faster, why not? It would be terribly useful to be able to do a final quality render in near real-time.
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Does anyone else here hate modern web design trends as much as I do? Things like flat interfaces, vague icons and infinite scroll?
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I wish you luck, Rodney. That must be a hard thing to do. You taking time off work?
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Wow.
Meltdown and Spectre FAQ: Fix for Intel CPU flaws could slow down PCs and Macs
I predict class action lawsuits.
I'm afraid to look at what this will do to Intel stock.
The fix is supposed to slow down the CPUs by 5-30%. I can tell you that AMD is up nearly $2/share right now, from where it was a month ago.
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I don't typically post about video games but I thought this one might be of some interest, given that it features a lot of interesting hand-drawn 1930s style animation:
https://www.gog.com/game/cuphead
It looks interesting, I don't know that I have the patience anymore to attempt to get through something like that, but it certainly is unique.
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Merry Christmas Rob!
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I just got an alert that my Yahoo account that is linked to a gmail account (that does NOT belong to me) is showing a login from a new iPhone.
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Just saw this today, I really don't want to run the risk of spoiling anything so all I will say is it was a very strong film. And porgs are adorable.
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If this is a single take I wonder how many tries it took to get it right. Pretty cool.
Or...is this just really well done CG? The barrel rolls and multi-train jump at the end seem like they would be next to impossible to do.
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That looks like the Satan baby in Passion of the Christ.
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If the rest are as good as the first one, this is quite a treat.
Excellent work.
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The reverse side will stay the same. Scroll of Honor with winner's name...
Yeah, makes more sense. I guess it has been a while since the last contest, forgot what the other one looked like. -
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There's always a surprise inside.
How about "Fabergé Egg" for a contest topic?
Now that would be a cool Easter/Spring contest. I'd be up for that.
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Looks good so far. What about the reverse side, you could have Tom/Thom in a hammock.
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So having never seen an actual Faberge egg...are these the size of regular eggs or more like ostrich eggs?
Judging from the size of the hands in the videos they appear to be about 1-2x the size of a chicken egg but I've read of some that are smaller.
I am such a silly Billy. I guess if I had watched all the way to the end of the first video I'd have gotten my answer.
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So having never seen an actual Faberge egg...are these the size of regular eggs or more like ostrich eggs?
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Nicely done video, Rob. Congratulations to Mark, Matt, and Bruce.
Mark I will be sending you a photo for my caricature prize. Maybe I could have you do one of my fuzzy dog.
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Here is the latest in virtual funny-money news:
Sounds like the plot to a Star Trek episode:
Kirk: "Spock, this is a class M planet, perfectly fine...but.... the civilization appears to...have collapsed...from...overuse....of resources.
Spock (examining an ancient terminal): "Captain, it appears they were "mining" cryptocurrency."
Kirk: "Ah...well....that explains it, then. Earth outlawed cryptocurrency....in the 2050s....due to it killing the electrical grid."
Spock: " Apparently money grows neither on trees, nor in the memory banks of a computer"
*cue theme*
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I think the most underwhelming Halloween treat I ever got was a page from a book of children's Bible stories.
I got a Chick Tract once.
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Candy corn is pretty horrible. Also Necco wafers. And black licorice.
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I went to see Bladerunner 2049 this past weekend and I was pretty impressed, it didn't outdo the first movie obviously but I felt it was a worthy sequel. Anyone else been to see it yet?
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So apparently somehow when I went to see Bladerunner 2049 I missed the Last Jedi trailer with the Porgs.
Do they focus group these creatures to make them as cute as possible? This looks like a cross between a penguin and a Furby. I don't think they could possibly make it any cuter.
GPU Slave?
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This is true, I am also the limiting factor in terms of getting things done more so than rendering. I don't know that having extremely fast final renders would make much difference in that regard. However, where they might make a difference is in all the iterative test renderings that we often do when testing lighting, materials, etc. on a scene. Now 5-10 seconds as opposed to 5 minutes for a test frame would be a valuable thing. We can work around this somewhat by doing lower resolution tests or rendering only a portion of the screen but sometimes you need a full frame test at final quality.
Blender and AM are very different in the way in which they are developed. Blender is a community effort with dozens if not hundreds of programmers. This is not true of AM.
I am happy enough with AM, I am not investing more time at this point in my life in learning a completely different software. I suppose if I had to at some point and was forced to adopt Blender I would but I'd much rather work with AM.