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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 7)
YAY! Finally! The jittery frames have been re-rendered and everything is now A-OK. I now start production on the credits (opening and closing), the music, and possibly the sound effects – depending on how the music comes out.
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Yellow Fever
A really fun mockumentary about why Asian girls are always dating non-Asian men by the team at Wong Fu Productions:
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 6)
I figured out the reason for the stuttering video – one of my render nodes in the farm had Blender 2.43, while the others had 2.42. Something changed between the two versions that caused the camera to be at a slightly different place. So, don’t mix Blender versions!
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 5)
The render took about 6 hours this time, thanks to the laptop participating in most of it and the fact that I gave the Windows computer even more frames to render. It still finished about 30 minutes before the *nix boxen, so I really need to get it integrated into drqueue. I worked on that…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 4)
Ok, I’m about to start what I hope is this time the final render of “Jose’s Dinner”. After this it’s off to post-production.
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OPA
If you want to see a REALLY, REALLY good animation, check out Three Legged Legs’ Samurai. It’s about 2-3 minutes long and it’s a wonderful little cartoon set in a stylized ancient japan. A pretty interesting animation was done on Blender by an Arabic team. You can watch it here.
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Relient K Concert
(all of these are pictures of Relient K, even in the sections when I’m talking about other bands) My wife and I went to the Relient K concert yesterday in Baltimore. We were the oldest people there as I’ve been following them since their first album (which came out around 8-10 years ago), while many…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 3)
I reviewed last night’s render today and I found a few little gaffes here and there. I made a list and fixed them up. I’m pretty confident that the next time I will be rendering the definitive version of the film. I’m pretty psyched. All that’s left now is to start up on the credits…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 2)
Well, the rendering is now done for “Jose’s Dinner”! Quite an improvement over 25 hours! Thanks to DrQueue, it only took 9 hours and 36 minutes! That is quite impressive! And, it would have been even better if my Windows computer had actually had DrQueue installed. I did a calculation that had me rendering 283…
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The End is Near [for Jose’s Dinner] (Part 1)
Well, today I finished up all the animation details on “Jose’s Dinner” and set it to render. I’m excited to see how long the render will take. I started it at 1438 today. However, it hasn’t been without hitch. Due, I think, to the wireless card trying to kick in, the laptop rendered for a…
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Gotta use that extra encryption
Another wonderful comic from xkcd:
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Render farm Performance on the bouncing ball (part 2)
Ok, so adding in the laptop really improved the render time on the farm. It went from 405 seconds to 260 seconds! So it went from 6.75 minutes to 4.3 minutes!! Now THAT is a dramatic improvement! It basically cut the rendering time in half. So, with this setup, it should take roughly 12 hours…
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Render farm Performance on the bouncing ball (part 1)
Ok, so on 20 April, I rendered a bouncing ball to see which was faster, Linux or Windows. Back to Basics: Bouncing Ball from djotaku In that post, we saw that it took my Linux computer 481 seconds and my Windows computer 453 seconds. So for a slightly longer than one second animation, the windows…
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YES! Renderfarm up and running
It took me nearly all day, but after consulting one source after another I finally got drqueue to run on my computer. It’s actually very easy to do….if someone actually gives you good directions! The key to make it work for me was setting up the master and slave .confs and creating the etc, logs,…
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Why XML files are so much better than Binary files
For my latest animation, “Jose’s Dinner“, I was using Cinelerra for the 2D animatic. I was working on it while I was at my in-law’s house so I was using the laptop. However, we try to use the laptop as little as possible to keep extend the life of the laptop, so when I got…