Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

[Matthew Fricker]

@williamatics no worries 🙂 

[Neil Jenkinson]

Hi Matthew,

Who is the owner of the CG Cookie Render Monsters Team, I have been waiting to be accepted on to the team for a few days now?

Rendering for others at the moment.

[Matthew Fricker]

@daddios , I assume it is either @dostovel or @theluthier that started the team , hopefully they can add you soon 🙂 

[Neil Jenkinson]

I thought it may be Kent, I’ll respond to one of his posts,

Thanks

[Omar Domenech]

Kent be our mighty captain, Neil. We currently don’t know his whereabouts, the whole gang has gone their separate ways until we’re called upon again. 

What in the hell happened in the forum? this is so confusing now.

[Matthew Fricker]

yeah @dostovel , i’ts all gone a bit backwards since they updated it , but apparently there is a global setting in your prefs that will revert it back to the old way somehow. It is very tricky now to locate new posts especially in long threads that have been going a while. 

[Kent Trammell]

Kent be our mighty captain, Neil. We currently don’t know his whereabouts, the whole gang has gone their separate ways until we’re called upon again.

My apologies for the radio silence! I’ve was on vacation last week – I must not have mentioned that during any of my streams 🤔

WOAH our sheepit team is ranked #10! That was fast. Way to go everyone 👏

@dostovel What’s the status on your reel scenes? If you have any ready to render you can feel free to submit them to sheepit and change the topic thread to “Ready to Render”. I.e. no need to wait on me.

However what I do need to do is post an article about SheepIt and our team so this info isn’t buried in this thread. I’ll try to do that this week perhaps 🤞

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier I’ve been taking a break myself, I got a bit of a scare recently.

January this year I stopped doing freelance to focus on a portfolio to try and make a major life change, so I’ve been working literally non stop, doing my 8 to 5 sentence at the office and then getting home tired and continuing to sit in front of the computer to work on 3D to try and make up for the hours lost, and then weekends it’s the only chance you have time to really focus and push hard. Literally months just driving in my car back and forth to just sit and try to get things done as fast as possible. There’s no other way when you’re an employee, what would otherwise be your free time to rest is what little time you have available to work on your personal stuff, even though by then your job has sucked all the energy out of you. So lately I’ve been feeling this pressure at the back of my head and this weird headache that doesn’t go away for days and I said ok, it’s probably time to stop. 

I hope the gamble pays off soon and I can get a job doing 3D for real and work 8 to 5 on that and then the time left is leisure time. And I always think to myself, man what about the people that have three jobs just to make ends meet, just to stay afloat, and each one of those jobs is two times worst than mine, and they can’t even stop or they wont make it. No wonder people are just dropping left and right.

[Matthew Fricker]

Omar I can relate to your problem because I am doing exactly the same. I work a full time job and then spend what little time I get at night working on my portfolio and also doing a good bit of freelance work . It’s stressful and crazy. Most nights I work till 12am and then am up at 6.30 for a 10 hour shift and then its baby duties when I get home and then 3d work from about 9 till 12 again.

But stick with it man , because one day it will all pay off and you will look back and be so glad that you did not give up. You have a huge amount of talent and easily have the skills to land a job in CG. 

But yes, maybe a break is a good idea. If you burn yourself out you could lose heart and that could be disastrous. 

If you ever need a chat about it give me a shout 🙂 or I’m sure any if the amazing crew and community here can also relate to the struggle and will be happy to chat about it. 

The futures bright man 🙂 

[Omar Domenech]

@frikkr Thanks Matt. I used to think most of the people doing 3D  were in similar situations, but I remember there were a couple of things that started to form a different picture in my head, including a poll Kent made were he asked if people did 3D just for fun, as a hobby, or they were in it as a means of making a living out of it. Turns out it might be most people do it just for amusement, which blows my mind. They’re not looking to do freelance or anything, not to have a client, not to make money out of it, just for entertainment. Which reminds me of the Robin Williams joke

“Michael Jackson was taking Propofol to sleep, which is like doing chemotherapy because you’re tired of shaving your head”

I’ve had my apartment rented for two years now to a husband and wife, they’re great people and great tenants, the thing is they were also looking to get a job abroad, he does coding in Python and they finally got hired, in a corporation in Europe, they’re leaving next month. So that gives me hope, that it can be done, they gave me a couple of good advice on how they managed to do it. So lets see, fingers crossed.  

[Matthew Fricker]

And you can do it too Omar 🙂 , just keep at it. 

[Matthew Fricker]

For anybody who has more than one GPU in their computer , it turns out that it is surprisingly easy to render on Sheep-it with them all. Simply open several instances of the client , one for each GPU you wish to use and select the required GPU in the settings of each one. Below you can see that I am rendering with 3 of my four cards,  saving the main display card so that I can keep working on the computer while the others are rendering. 

@theluthier  , you suggested a way to run a script to do this a few weeks back , but it turns out that it is a lot simpler than we thought and I’ve left all four GPU’s rendering like this for 48 hours straight several times without any issues so it seems to be stable enough simply opening the Sheep-it client several times. 

[Omar Domenech]

What in gods name is human-skeleton rendering? it looks like there was a dude on display in a museum with a nice red carpet. He came to life, left his pod and built some high-tech scaffolding to jump from the roof and escape? He looks determined to go with it, I want to see how that turns out. 

[Matthew Fricker]

I have absolutely no idea @dostovel , it looks crazy lol 

[Omar Domenech]

@frikkr I’m kida worry for the guy, I hope he makes it out and the next screenshot is him on a nice tropical island.

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