Saturday 13 December 2008

Qualms with the Farm

Im in college today(saturday) checknig up on the renders... yesterday we spent the whole day tryng to get the render farm to work, but in the end to no avail. Alex could see anything wrong with the setup or file, but the farm just wouldnt render the images, just spat them back as failed. in the morning, i set 3 computers upstairs batch rendering 200 frames of the 1st camera each, hoping theyd be just a back up, but by 5pm it was obvious that they were going to be our only way to render, so i set the second camera rednering on 4 different computers doing 200 frames each as well. i came in today to chekc that they were still rendering, and while they are, they are only about a third of the way through the whole process. with any luck, theyll be odne by 8am monday when im in to edit it together(which should only take an hour), so we will see then... anyway, ehres a still from the opening shot just after the cmaera has come through hte mist( which i mentioned in another post) im really pleased with my lighting and the camera movements that i worked on over the past few days, they arent exactly as i had hoped when i wrote the shot list, but they are as good as could be done without hiding sections fo the models and whatnot. the render settings are looking pretty good to, i used motion blur and fiddled with mental ray until i got what i thought looked good. hopefully ill be able to post the full thing if the render happens on time...

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