thesis: ren ren when?
I guess it's a good thing that I'm getting to the stage where I'm doing production level rendering at this time of the process, it's good to get an idea as to how long things are going to take in the final render. It's odd when you think about the difference in time, when I was doing After Effects work, a six hour render for 30 seconds is insane, I get worried when it takes a minute or two to render a frame.
Going to CG it's something else all together, 6 hours to render 90 frames seems quite normal and even after all this time, it's still something I have to get used to. But progress is good, as of now every scene are lit, all but two have final textures applied and now only one scene I haven't done a full res render yet. I've managed to be ahead of schedule by a bit, not a whole lot, but it's good to know that I'm on track.
On rendering, since my desk sits right next to my bed, I've gotten used to falling asleep to the smoothing sounds of spinning hard drives and revving cooling fans. I used to complain about how loud the fans gets on the G5s, now it's gotten to the point where it has become the reassuring sound that my computer is working on my project. The sound is also why I'm up right now, as the fans stopped spinning and literally I woke right up like an obsessed boss, looking over the computer's shoulder to check if it is indeed working or just pretending to work. Turns out it went for a break between frames and forgot how to start working again...
