AgentRedGirl
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Render Testing This Weekend
🕑 Added 2019-02-01 02:32:42 +0000 UTCHello all! So today was very weird... I went ahead and committed to the new render engine Redshift and bought 2, $500 licenses to start rendering. I was so excited to start rendering and so I got everything setup, gleefully hit BATCH RENDER and... BAAM crash! I was like hmm thats odd and so I tried again CRASH. Well, after having a heart attack at spendibg $5000 on a new computer/software/rendering license that didnt work, I spent the whole day figuring out what was wrong. Annnnnnnnd the culprit was a file with an underscore in its name.... yep, Maya hates underscores.
SOOOOOOOO the good news is, the rendering is working now! ANNNNNNND its taking less than 5 minutes per frame!!!!! O M G I cannot begin to explain how happy I am!!!!!! My previous render engine was taking 10-30 minuted per frame for final rendering. So this is like THE BEST EVER. I am so so so excited ππππππππππππ
Ok so, I am going to let the intro finish rendering and then I will post a final quality render preview here. If all looks well, I will full steam ahead with the animation and shoot for finishing this next part at lightning speed. I literally lost weeks and weeks to rendering with the last 2 episodes so this will save soooooooo much time.
I want to make 100% sure the renders look good before I go full on animator mode. So I just wanted to keep everyone up to date with whats going on.
Ok, sorry for ranting on I am just so happy I wish I could fully explain what a gigantic relief this is.
Soooo look for a post sometime this weekend or Monday of the intro rendered at full quality :)
Comments
Stoked on this breakthrough!!
CiarΓ‘n M
Oh wow, that initial hiccup must have been so scary! But the relief and excitement that came after you resolved everything and saw the new render times must have been equally intense! I'm very happy for you, it must be especially great for you now after the issues during AML4, I can't imagine how excited you must be feeling now. I'll be eagerly awaiting your finished render preview, so far everything that you've showed us with the new engine has been so impressive and AML4.5 will be so good with the new rendering!
JOSEMI
I am happy for you
Darth Pax
Happy days!
A win for Red!
bigwiggy
Congratulations Red. The speed increase is great news and I'm glad you were able to get everything working. Sounds like you're slowly becoming a tech guru as well as a great animator.
Agent Red Girl
Sorry this was typed poorly, im just exhausted, today was a long day and my brain is fried like an egg π BUT IM HAPPY, just drained
