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Estimating Render Times on the Farm
The other night, as I was submitting some shots to my Backburner queue, I realized that I have never formalized a method for estimating render times for jobs that are in progress on my farm. Backburner does give some job info such as average task time and an estimate for how much remaining time before the job finishes. That’s not quite enough info to give me confidence in when I can expect things to finish up and regarding the “Remaining…
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3D Artist Magazine "Spotlight"
I was thrilled when Lynette Clee, News Editor at 3D Artist magazine, informed me I had been selected for their February issue’s “Artist Spotlight”! It’s issue 38 and hit shelves just a few weeks ago in Europe and should be available in the States by now. You can also buy it online HERE or pick it up for your iPhone or iPad. It’s a nice little piece that mostly focuses on the variety of work I do, being a 3D “generalist”…
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Why I render to OpenEXR and you should too. Part I
Introductions OpenEXR’s can be mysterious things. My first couple encounters with them left me initially underwhelmed. Why did it look all washed out? Why’s the file size so bloated? Why didn’t they just send me a .TIF? I had been more of a .TIF, .TGA, PNG man most of my computer imaging life and OpenEXR just wasn’t getting me excited. Then Max 2010 and the Connection Extension changed everything. What is it and where did it come from? First off…
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