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Published: 2014-09-24 20:15:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 3586; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 519
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OK so after almost 6 hours of rendering here is a very short (just little over 2 seconds) clip based on the My Ball scene and more precisely on the portrait shot I made of that scene.Download the ZIP which contains the WMV file. Unfortunately, dA does not allow direct WMV content uploads.
The preview image is one of the frames rendered for the animation so it represents the resolution and technical quality of the clip itself.
DAZ Studio for scene setup. Octane Plugin for rendering, lights and materials. Pose, expressions and animation by myself. No post work.
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7.2 min per frame... not half bad... much faster than CPU based renders, which can easily push 30 min/frame at 1280x720Β
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Still rather unusable for longer projects.
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that's where CPU based rendering comes in... especially if you have a few slaves
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Well, you can have GPU Slaves as well. Especially with the new Octane version.
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true that... but it's not very economical... Β my render farm has 8 i7 refurbished laptops (cheap)... not only that, but they barely consume much electricity, but if we were to set this up with 8 GPU based systems, the electrical bill would go up significantly... and a decent GFX card alone would cost more than these cheap laptops ;]
Octane is fine & dandy for stills, but it's probably not meant for animationΒ
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Why should it not be meant for animation? I would say that even with 8 CPUs you won't get anywhere near the speed of a single GPU.
When i was still rendering on CPU a scene that would render on two networked and overclocked i7 CPUs would take over 7 days where with same settings and on a single GPU it took about 10 hours...
As soon as you move from the 'rendering for fun' category to the 'get some money back for it' then the productivity is the key as the sooner you can produce stuff the sooner you can be paid for it and can move on to another project.
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wow... had no idea it was that fast... from the example you gave, the difference was not that staggering.
might have to give this GPU thang a try once all the laptops will be sold ;]
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The difference is huge. Especially when comparing CPU based Luxrender and GPU based Octane. In Lux on two networked i7 2600K based systems the rendering speed was in tens of thousands of samples per second. With Octane you are usually starting with millions and you can reach tens of millions of samples per second.
So yeah, the difference is... rather noticeable
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thanx for the knowledge MadBird... much appreciated Β
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Very cool!Β Yeah, I can't imagine turning out something that crisp on a home/hobbyist system.Β Let's see... at 3 hours per second... to render an animation at this resolution similar in length to a movie trailer would take roughly 9 weeks of non-stop processing.Β After a year, you'd still be a minute shorter than last year's Academy Award winner for best animated short film... and would have gone through several computers (and possibly a house fire, lol).Β Conclusion: film-quality animation with home gear remains rather like taking an interstellar trip with today's rocketry.Β Possible, if you have a looooooooong time to wait. 
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And don't forget that you would also probably overshoot the budget of that Academy Award short solely on the electricity cost
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All I can feel is heat... from my GPUs... Rendering at full power for almost 6 hours to make those two seconds...
It could be interesting to create a longer clip - and in higher quality - but I doubt that I will ever own hardware powerful enough to deliver acceptable quality within acceptable rendering times.
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www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-dβ¦
and
www.nvidia.com/object/advancedβ¦
The final objective is to work on a workstation (they have the best performance ,but cost are heavy too ,around 3000$)
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Yeah the 12GB Teslas would be nice... to have one or two racks full of those beasties... Or five...
Now just to win that lottery...
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