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AAAGH! I seem to have exceeded my bandwidth allowance, and Plusnet have taken my site down. What's more, they'll only restore it if I tell them what steps I have taken to ensure it doesn't go over again. Apologies to those who haven't managed to download the film yet, but I'll have to find another way of sharing it. I couldn't have completed on time without rendering in layers, but I did come across one big disadvantage of being in a hurry. The long scene where hog-boss swims down to switch on the shredder I had only seen at its full length in a very rough render without effects and reduced particles. When you render layers and there's a camera move involved, you have no chance to tweak the camera at all once you've rendered a few layers without dumping everything and starting again.kdiddy13 wrote:I used to teach a 3d class as well as some After Effects classes. I'm a huge fan of rendering in layers and compositing afterwards. It may seem to be more time consuming but I'm always happy with myself when I can just render out one fixed character without having to render the whole scene out again. The "pros" split it out even more, doing individual passes on color, specularity, shadows, etc. It ultimately gives you more control over your images.
Yes, I only had one model of Kitty. She had interchangeable hands on switch layers, and a head that would cover a fairly wide turning angle, but it was enough, except for the scene where I needed a profile.kdiddy13 wrote:So did you only have one Kitty model for the whole animation?
I've been debating the advantages of one model for everything vs. several models for different angles. Any opinions? Would you do it the same way again?
As I've just discovered, the bandwidth is the problem. Otherwise, it's a welcome suggestion - just have to find a hosting solution that doesn't cost me money, and doesn't get pulled down everytime I get a few hits on a large quicktime file.bupaje wrote:If you can handle the bandwidth -or can get someone to host it who can- post a link at the appropriate forum at cgtalk.com. The few items I have posted over the years always generate a huge amount of hits when I included my links for at least a day -longer if people ask questions keeping the thread from getting buried. Good place to showcase your own work and Moho's capabilities.
Note: You need a high bandwidth site or mirror it and post the alternate links as a few times so many people view it that the server can't handle it so they can't access the file - the high amount of posts then might push your post below the horizon with not many people seeing it.
Actually, I just looked at the dates on the files again, and it must have been more like 5 weeks, including 3 weekends. Still a very tight deadline. As I said, this sequence (Lesson 3) is about a quarter of the whole film, which runs to over 5 minutes. Large sections of two of the sequences had already been animated in Flash, and needed tweaks and new animation to fit with the reworked script. Another section had to be started afresh, as the main character had been changed from a monkey to a frog. So I had 3 animators working with me on the project, Jason, Simon and Richard (who all did a superb job). I assigned them each a sequence, and took the final sequence for myself, the idea being that they could jump in and help me once their Flash sequences were complete.robj wrote:You mentioned that it took 4 weeks (tight time line!); how many people besides yourself were required to finish this piece in this aggressive a deadline? Again, great work Barry.
Rob
250Mb gives you a bit less than 18 downloads if your file is 14 Mb, less if there is other traffic. Surprising how small 250Mb sounds when you look at it like that. What is weird is that Plusnet doesn't simply allow for the extra bandwith and charge you extra for it.Barry Baker wrote:
And I thought 250MB/day would be ample...
Hi Manu,Manu wrote: 250Mb gives you a bit less than 18 downloads if your file is 14 Mb, less if there is other traffic. Surprising how small 250Mb sounds when you look at it like that. What is weird is that Plusnet doesn't simply allow for the extra bandwith and charge you extra for it.
There are some really nice designs in there. Did Matt do some of them? I like the animation of the hog swimming.
Anyway, this is a really nice instructional video. Heaven knows I've worked on some real horrors in that genre, clients that constantly change their minds, horrible designs, naff scripts, no money. This is definately one of the better ones I've seen.
I just didn't do the maths in advance.
