There must come a point though when there's no more bells and whistles to turn on? We're getting close now to renders that look real- really real! We're also getting used to rigs that provide us with all the control we'll ever need.
I say leave it alone. Stick with what we've got and let hardware catch up. On 19/04/2012, at 6:37 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > actually for rendertimes it’s even worse. > > ‘cumulative calculation times’ per frame used to be 4-6 hours – around LOTR > they went up to 24-48hrs. > For Transformers 2,3 they were approaching a week. (just a few figures I kept > in memory) > > Hardware is getting increasingly powerful, but demands get more and more > complex on all fronts while delivery times get shorter. > Moore’s law is not enough to result in a status quo. Even renderfarms growing > considerably might not be enough. > > > > > From: Simon Pickard > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: test. > > Talking of frame rates... > I'd love to see a graph of all the major films since Jurassic Park and the > frame rate of their rigs. > Think it would be pretty interesting, and wonder how consistant it would be? > Same for render times. > > I guess the more powerful the computers the more we throw at them. > > > > > > > On 19 April 2012 17:35, <[email protected]> wrote: > but they can make it cheaper. > > > > From: Eric Thivierge > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: test. > > Faster rigs can't make your animation better Simon. > > -------------------------------------------- > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Simon Pickard <[email protected]> wrote: > Shouldn't you two be making our rigs run faster or something? > > > > On 19 April 2012 10:58, Raffaele Fragapane <[email protected]> > wrote: > He has a coord reading them to him and then writing back. > It's kinda like the field nurses helping the analphabet soldiers write home > during world war one kinda thing. > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn't know Simon could read let alone email.... :P > > -------------------------------------------- > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Simon Pickard <[email protected]> wrote: > Woohoo! Thanks for the reply. > > > On 19 April 2012 09:22, Jeremie Passerin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you got it working now ! > > > > On 18 April 2012 16:15, Simon Pickard <[email protected]> wrote: > Come on emails! Work damn it! > > > > > > > -- > Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and > let them flee like the dogs they are! > > > >
