I'll repost what I said in the other thread....
We started using Redshift back in March and pretty much use it
exclusively now. Of course it all depends on the needs of the project
(and there are still some real limitations). The RS dev team is top
notch though. I'm really excited to see how things will be at the end of
this calendar year. Redshift development is progressing at a fantastic
rate, and the pricing is very competitive. For facilities, even small
ones, it does require that you spend some time considering your hardware
and infrastructure, especially if you want to start converting CPU farms
for GPU rendering, or augmenting them. Fortunately, Redshift isn't
licensed per GPU, but per machine, and that should provide some
breathing room.
To be honest (and I realize we have many Arnold folks here), here at
Magnetic we evaluated our rendering options (MR, vRay, 3Delight,
Arnold). I even started working on a Soft-to-Modo pipeline. Among these
Arnold was the clear winner. That said, we felt that to be useful for us
in production, Arnold was too costly a solution for us, both financially
and in render time, /considering the kinds of projects we do/ . Then
Redshift came along and despite its infancy, really turned our heads. We
cautiously began using it on productions, and it has since proven itself
for us.
Again, it all depends on what kind of project you're working on! You
need to evaluate it for yourself of course, but for smaller houses like
us, it allows us to produce better looking content faster, while staying
in Softimage. And in this economy, we can't argue with that.
-Tim
On 1/8/2014 2:53 PM, Paul Griswold wrote:
I've been using it along side Arnold for quite a while now. I just
finished a project for CES entirely in Redshift.
I think Redshift falls more into the category of a VRay competitor
rather than Arnold. Redshift isn't open the way Arnold is & I don't
think they intend it to be.
I've found it to be extremely fast and stable in most cases, but being
just out of alpha there are times when it's warts show.
For $100, it's certainly worth a test drive.
-Paul
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Stephen Davidson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I just wanted to start this thread so we can kill the Sofimage is
dead thread. :)
So..Redshift3D enthusiasts...post here.
I think we will benefit the group, as a whole, if we spread the
word on this
amazing GPU rendering company. They have made my workflow SO much
faster.
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