Forum Archive › Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel
@dostovel Woohoo! First hurdle down, let’s tackle the next!
I don’t know who this is but thank you stranger.

@dostovel Well hello there Omar, it was me.
On a side note, there are far too many LotR references during this project and I love it
@brzostek Ah hey there Piotr, thanks for the help.
Wow there’s already 50 frames down out of 163 I think. This one is going down fast.

What does “yolo” mean?
@williamatics A North America thing meaning “You Only Live Once”. Unless you live there and you’re a Buddhist and believe in reincarnation, then it’s YOLAB” You Only Live A Bunch.
*Thibaut has joined the game*
Great job with scene 1 folks! Had some issue yesterday but now it seems to be going smoothly with scene 2, talets 9-10 minutes per frame so far.
Its so cool to see the live update on drive, seeing the exr files updating with different owners name is so satisfying: real teamwork, I’m impressed it goes so smoothly.
@dostovel Omar, regarding the glitches you mentioned yesterday (duplicated files) it could happen when two users start simultaneously to either render or place a placeholder. With many user at different world location plus different connections (lag time) it could be a reason to that.
@tbrbn Yeah, also I’ve notice when people come in later when there’s a large number of frames already rendered, when you don’t wait for the folder to sync, Blender doesn’t know there are already frames rendered and it duplicates them. So for example There’s already frames 1 to 50 in the shared Drive folder, when you log in for the first time, your Google Drive account has to download all those files in order to catch up, and when you’ve only let it sync say from frames 1 to 8, when you hit Animation, Blender will start on frame 9 even though we’re already in frame 50, so it duplicates the frames.
It’s so cool isn’t it? to see the team work update and sync live with each file. I think Kent knew how all this goes since that’s how the CG Cookie Wise Sages work and he wanted us to have a sense of it. Just throwing out a conspiracy theory out there.
@dostovel I’m sure that how the Elders of CGC do it yes 🙂
Would be great if the placeholder system be improved, a simple text file with the list of rendered frame would be lighter to sync and appending it would be not so hard to do either. Then with drive or dropbox we could skip syncing the rendered images and start directly with the blend file and the text file contaiing the list of rendered (and being rendered) output. Maybe the blender developer should consider it, I’ll check that 🤔
I just want to make sure, you render with 500 samples, is that correct ? I followed the instructions and didn’t change anything in the blend file, but I read earlier in the thread something mentionning 1500 samples, can’t find it anymore.
@tbrbn Yes, initially I had the file with 1,500 samples and no Denoising, then Kent took a look at it and changed it to 500 samples with Denoising. Turn out it was better that way because renders are much faster now and the difference is unnoticeable, at least when it comes to animation, the compromise is very little and worth the speed bump.
It would be cool to have a system that is better at avoiding duplicates and better yet not having to sync all the files. I have no idea how that would go, and yet the developers are always doing black magic with the software.
And yes, the file is basically all set up, you just need to be mindful of the Reload-Trusted prompt, if you have available a GPU and the tiles accordingly. The instructions is more a reminder than anything else.
By the way Thibaut, your tutorials are great, you know some deep math stuff and hackery things. How is all that making a tutorial thing about? I always imagine myself thinking on how would I go about making a tut, all the stuff I’m going to record and narrate, practicing everything and then when the mic is hot and recording…. silence, I’d have a hard time putting a sentence together, I’d get that weird freeze thing that happens that your brain chokes.
@dostovel alright I’m doing things right then 🙂
By the way Thibaut, your tutorials are great, you know some deep math stuff and hackery things. How is all that making a tutorial thing about? I always imagine myself thinking on how would I go about making a tut, all the stuff I’m going to record and narrate, practicing everything and then when the mic is hot and recording…. silence, I’d have a hard time putting a sentence together, I’d get that weird freeze thing that happens that your brain chokes.
Thank you Omar, it means a lot to me. I experience the very same thing you describe. In my mind I have the best punchline, the ideal way of describe how to do this or that, the perfect idea of how I can edit it and then… pitch black.
Now I got a bit more experienced so I start to have an improved workflow, but the difficult parts are always the same, what to say and how to say it. I think it’s fine NOT to describe everything, and go faster on some part: the viewer can then try by him or herself and also the question sections are perfect to elaborate specific points.
I usually rehearse a lot, if you give it a try you’ll find yourself repeating the same bit of sentence fifteen time until you get it correct. There’s different way to record, for the moment I prefer doing a voice over type of tutorial. It’s a bit more job on the editing part but recording is smoother I find.
It’s a learning process, especially if English is not your native language. I feel confortable enough in English but it’s still an extra difficulty so I write it down and improvise along. I gave up on trying to get a better accent also, as long as people understand me I think it’s fine.
You should give it a try, i want to learn from you !
@tbrbn Yeah I think I’d be the kind of record in silence then dub it over later kinda guy, but I don’t know if a magic of the moment would get lost in that and it would feel stiff instead of organic.
But nah, I don’t think I have the voice pitch for recording. For some reason when I talk in english, I always think I sound like a six year old girl, plus I don’t know how bad my accent in english is. And all I know I’ve learned from Kent and CG Cookie so I don’t know what I could teach really. You seem to have experiment with stuff on your own.
All I had ever done (until this point in making the portfolio), was freelance work, stuff that clients wanted me to do, I had never done CGI for myself, so I’ve never had time to do experimenting. That changed a bit when Kent started doing Live Stream classes. In those I was able to squeeze a bit of time to do the assignments and that’s about the work that made it into the portfolio. Other than that is client stuff, which is always boring and with each change they tend to make things worst.
When I have some time to learn how to play the guitar just for fun, this is the kind of stuff I’d like to know how to do.