Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@dostovel Ghaa Omar! I was wondering why my renders were much faster than the others, the car is missing !

How come ? All my files are up to date with Drive though, I don’t get where the issue comes from 🤔

[Omar Domenech]

@tbrbn Yeah there was some crazy event that happened where all the files got deleted from Drive, so now you have to un-sync the folder and then re-sync so it resets. In other words, Remove then Add to my Drive again.

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@dostovel Dang , should have read the whole thread more thoroughly sorry 🙁 Welp I’ll do that, thanks for the quick answer!

[Omar Domenech]

@tbrbn No worries.

We are on frame 272 of 288, it is almost over so it’s going to take forever for you to sync 272 EXR that are in the folder. It is best that you set the time line to whatever frames you want to render and then manually introduce them to the Drive folder, that way to wont wait forever for all the files to sync.

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@dostovel Makes sense. There’s other scene to render otherwise right ? I can wait for the next one

[Omar Domenech]

@tbrbn Yes, there are a couple more scenes of other renders, I’d say we’re at 35%, so there’s a lot left.  😓

Bad thing is I still have to prepare the other ones, I thought rendering was going to take a lot longer to the point were I would be able to work on the scenes on par with the rendering, but nop, I’m not done preparing the other ones so there will be periods of inactivity until it’s time to render again. 

Thanks for staying interested Thibaut.

[Kent Trammell]

@phoenix4690 @dostovel Unfortunately everyone needs to have the same amount of space to participate in a rendering project like this. That’s the bummer of not being able to use Dropbox. 2GB would fill up super quick and that’s only if no one has anything else in their Dropbox.

I’m a bit disappointed in Google Drive not being as polished as Dropbox. I suppose there’s also an internet speed situation to account for. Say if I have a slow internet connection and you have a fast one and we both spit out a placeholder at the same time, whose gets synced? Maybe this is why we’re seeing duplicates occasionally. There’s not much of an excuse for seemingly random deletion of files. I’ve never seen that before in the ~4 years I’ve used Google Drive. I tend to think there was an accidental deletion on someone’s local machine. Could have been mine frankly. Linux Luke has a mind of it’s own.

All things considered, 15 free GB of a glitchy but functioning cloud sync solution is still good for enabling this to be accomplished at all. Does anyone have experience with another cloud sync app that offers this kind of space for free?

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier First time I use any of those cloud services sync things. And that’s sad that we would all need to have the same Drop Box space available. But yeah, Drive is getting the job done so far, and you’re right about variant internet speeds, that has to be accounted for, so it’s not just all Drive’s fault.

If things comes to worst, Drop Box could be an option, just that a very cumbersome option since the workflow would be like setting the timeline to every 50 frames, render those, copy/delete EXR, set timeline from 51 to 100, render those, copy/delete EXR, save the file, timeline 101 to 150, so on and so forth.

[Omar Domenech]

Project 2 is finished

Thanks for all the help so far. It has been worth it doing the renders in Cycles Kent. There are more projects left to render but I have to prepare them. Some just have to be optimized, try to create some interesting camera angles or possibly tell some small story, create some backgrounds, mix and match others, etc, etc. I’ll try to work as fast as possible. 

I put the video of the latest sequence in the Results folder. 

[sheila5]

@theluthier at least this was super simple especially compared to git and the incomprehensible commands about branches etc that totally confuse me

[sheila5]

@dostovel congratulations.

[Omar Domenech]

@sheila5 Thanks but there’s so much left to render that it’s like Frodo hasn’t even left The Shire. 

[silentheart00]

@dostovel Good to hear, Omar!  Happy to help where I can =]  Let us know when you’re ready again and we’ll get the army on it.

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier Kent, I uploaded the next scene into Google Drive. Do you mind giving it an all green status before actually going forward with it? I’m kinda nervous with this one since it’s in Blender 2.8 and I still don’t understand it well, plus it’s a hefty scene capable of terrifying Linux Luke himself. 

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel Another fire scene! Oh the lovely details….

Both scenes are set up properly for rendering this but I did have two points of advice:

• Unnecessarily high samples count. I rendered two frames on my GPU: Heli-002.exr at 1000 samples and Heli-003.exr at 256 samples. Both feature denoising and they’re literally indistinguishable when flipping between the two. However 10 minutes VS 3 minutes of render time. This will be a big help for people that can’t do GPU. I highly recommend 256 samples.
• Noticeably tiled texture on the background. While the concrete-like texture looks great below the heli, it’s too consistent of a pattern on the back wall that slopes up in my opinion. My recommendation is to use a gradient texture to eliminate / decrease / alter the pattern on the back wall (maybe even leaving it the solid grey color) while maintaining the reflection on the floor under the heli.
  

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