Hey Wayne,
Thanks for your advice.
Last question not related directly to an exercise! You say TV quality, so then movie quality would increase the amount of work by a factor of X? What would X be?
So for a TV quality animation that isn’t a full body shot 5 seconds per 8 hours shift. A full body shot that is TV quality work, I’ll take “a long longer” to mean generally 3 times longer so 3 days of 8 hours each. And that is when a professional does it, for me it as a beginner trying to learn well enough to even attempt such a task, well, a very general a lot longer, indeed.
Cool! Thanks a lot! You don’t know how useful it is to have a timeframe it would take a professional to do such a task as a reference. So such a 2 and a half minute animation is my 1st independent goal after finishing the rest of this course and a few others at CG Cookie. I do want it to be TV quality, at least the animation aspects of it, which these new ray tracing nVidia 3000 series cards maybe it’s not so far fetched to have the lighting and rest of the scene TV quality too, supposing I could ever find one in stock at a MSRP price.
As far as games go, that’s a not really a concern so much.
