Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

[Phil Osterbauer]

@dostovel I can confirm denoising is not turned on when I open it. If that’s something you want on you’ll have to save it on your end I believe.

[Omar Domenech]

@phoenix4690 Seems like Kent updated it. 

Ok so it’s on, I’m going to leave 4 computers rendering here at work and my laptop at home. 

[Omar Domenech]

There’s a duplicated file. It’s likely that Blender doesn’t see the file since it’s still uploading onto the internet and probably goes away to rendering it and then it arrives but it’s too late. I guess I’ll have to keep an eye out for those and delete them? the ones with (1) on them.

Although maybe is not that easy, since the (1) is the right one. I just noticed it in Blender.

[Omar Domenech]

Also flies are now larger for some reason. The only difference I can think of is that first 12 rendered frames didn’t have Denoising On, after those Denoising was turned On, perhaps that’s it? Nothing else besides that was changed I think.

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel Looks like 2.8 EXR’s are not compatible with 2.79. I tried compositing the sequence in both versions and it errors out. Bummer.

I’ll bet this is also causing the file size difference. I will delete my files and start rendering [slowly] with 2.79 😔

PS: Kinda cool that we can see who contributes which frames on the Google Drive website.

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier Yeah I was doing some compositing also and saw the pink frames.  🙁

The horror! the horror! So it doesn’t matter if I remake the files on 2.8 for you to render on your GPU? there will be a clash between 2.79 files and 2.8 files? It is better to leave it at 2.79? This sucks by the way. I remember when I heard people bragging that you could open any Blender files in any Blender version, I guess that’s over.

I tried Linux once, I remember giving up on it because of the lack of drivers and things like that for software’s to use. No Adobe of any kind and small programs I wanted to use never were available on Linux. I did like though the cleanliness of it, it felt smooth for some reason. 

When I build a rig I’m definitely trying it again. 

It is cool that you can see the details on Drive of everything that goes on. On the other hand we could go full Kim Jong-Un and reward the families of everyone that supported the most and imprison the ones that lacked in conviction. I’ll see if that can be turned off, that feels like a very judgmental and vulnerable data and one that can get people unease.

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel Maybe try updating the second scene for 2.8. I mean the render happens fine but something’s different about the passes perhaps. I didn’t troubleshoot it, just opened and rendered. It’d be great to get back to 6 min frames on my machine.

So far Linux has sufficed for my needs. I’m pretty much used to open source alternatives to my core apps, namely Krita for Photoshop and Kdenlive for Premiere Pro. It wasn’t the smoothest of transitions but I feel good about making it.

I’ll see if that can be turned off, that feels like a very judgmental and vulnerable data and one that can get people unease.

Lol I guess if someone complains sure, but I see it as a positive. No one is obligated to contribute any frames but thanks to anyone and everyone who does regardless of how much! It also provides some good documentation, like since all my frames were triple the file size we can know that it’s something I’m doing specifically. Helps us troubleshoot. So I say leave it on 👌

[silentheart00]

@dostovel Just wanted to pop in and say it took my GPU about 15 minutes on the first frame I rendered, so hopefully everything is all synced correctly and this bad boy can get a good chunk done by morning!  Here’s hoping a stupid random Windows update doesn’t take this down while I’m sleeping lol.

[Omar Domenech]

@silentheart00 Silent, you’re rendering with 2.8 and the frames you’ve rendered are getting a black frame thingy now instead of pink. Cancel the renders. You have to use 2.79

The 60 something MB files are the one that are being rendered with 2.8, I will go ahead and delete them.

Some files are getting duplicated. No biggie, I’ll erase them.

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier You’re right, it was good documentation for seeing the files were coming from Silent. A tool is as good or bad as its wielder. Take that Kim Jong-Un.

Sorry for throwing you under the bus Silent. Please accept this cookie 🍪 as an apology.

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier Also Kent, you said you were going to have to buy a software for doing this, please don’t spend money on it. If anyone has to spend it’s me. If you have to buy that software tell me and I’ll buy it for you or I can reimburse what you spent. Don’t say no. 👍🏼

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel I use google drive regularly so it would be purchasing the app for myself. Not to worry. This project just happened to be the one that revealed the free alternative app wasn’t reliable.

It’s so cool to see people contributing to this! @silentheart00 I also tried rendering with 2.8 and had to delete a bunch of frames. Something breaks about passes and/or EXR from 2.79 to 2.8 🤔

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier Alright, well if it’s something you use. Still I’ll figure something out.

I made a small test video and put it where you put the first one. iMacs here at work are 5K and the video looks sooooo bad here. It’s a whole dilemma this 4K, 5K stuff. Resolutions for screen are going too fast and computing power is not catching up as fast. 

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel I really don’t think anyone expects higher than 1080p. CG studios and artists know better than anyone how difficult that is to achieve without a massive renderfarm at one’s disposal. On my display the test looks great, aside from the missing frame flicker.

Seriously it looks soooo good 🤘🤘

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier Cool, thanks. I’m eager to see the whole thing done.

I guess the time has come… I’ll download 2.8 and try and see what’s going on with the EXR that get rendered in them. I hesitate though since I have to be preparing the other files from the reel that have to be render ready and animate the camera shots.  And I don’t know how much time it’ll take me to get used to 2.8. Plus I’m afraid to start work on 2.8 and then not being able to work in it and getting stuck since files from 2.79 and 2.8 are not interchangeable.

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