Sprogger McSprog

Y.O.P. 339 The Ghost Ship

Sunday, 1. November 2009, 22:18:36

Year Of Pixels, Galway, Y.O.P., Image, 3D, lightwave, Ghost Ship, render, tall ship

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A little late but here it is "The Albatross" my Ghost Ship for Halloween.

Y.O.P. 338 Halloween TimeY.O.P. 340 Over Sea,

Comments

Mickeyjoe_irl # 1. November 2009, 22:31

Albatross, what flavour is it?

sprogger # 1. November 2009, 22:38

its the break your heart it takes so long to render flavour.
over 3 million 600 thousand polygons take a long while.

Mickeyjoe_irl # 1. November 2009, 22:43

Had a discussion about cloud computing on the way to a Java conference a while back. One of the things that came up was using a cloud for rendering.

I wonder if there's anyone doing that?

sprogger # 1. November 2009, 22:46

Well there are render farms but these are much more effective for animation rather a single frame.

Mickeyjoe_irl # 1. November 2009, 22:58

Yeah, but as I understand those farms are dedicated machines owned by the studios and a big investment.

With a cloud the machines are virtual and you only have to "rent" them on a per job basis. So it might be more suited for non-professionals like yourself.

I'm barely skimming the surface here, I don't fully understand how it all works myself

, but I did think at the time that it might be an idea for you.

sprogger # 1. November 2009, 23:09

There are a few companies that rent time on render farms you just upload your models and scenes and it returns the images.
http://www.respower.com/
Is one of them.

there has been some talk of developing a peer to peer render network but the problem is a system where the peers have access to the models and scenes leave them open to being ripped off.

It wouldn't concern me too much,the majority of model I built I have given away for free anyway.