Contest Hosting question.

56kowboy · 03-02-2009

I agree with needing higher prizes. I know just doing a short clip of 30 seconds in poser takes a long time and that's with not even having it at 30 fps. Hand animated has to be at least if not more of a time sink but also requires them to have quite a lot of skill to pull that method off. So yeah if you want quality animation at the time you'll need some good scratch for motivation.

Lets see if each frame takes about 3 minutes to render then (30 fps * 120 seconds * 3 minutes) / 60 minutes = 180 hours to render 2 minutes on a mid-high end machine

Of course if you take out all props and only have the person then it cuts down the time but also looks kinda crappy.

Please anyone correct me if my math is wrong, heads fairly fuzzy right now but regardless it's going to be a lot of time to just render the animation let alone actually setting it up and working on it.

03-02-2009	#1
56kowboy Process Fan Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 68	Re: Contest Hosting question. I agree with needing higher prizes. I know just doing a short clip of 30 seconds in poser takes a long time and that's with not even having it at 30 fps. Hand animated has to be at least if not more of a time sink but also requires them to have quite a lot of skill to pull that method off. So yeah if you want quality animation at the time you'll need some good scratch for motivation. Lets see if each frame takes about 3 minutes to render then (30 fps * 120 seconds * 3 minutes) / 60 minutes = 180 hours to render 2 minutes on a mid-high end machine Of course if you take out all props and only have the person then it cuts down the time but also looks kinda crappy. Please anyone correct me if my math is wrong, heads fairly fuzzy right now but regardless it's going to be a lot of time to just render the animation let alone actually setting it up and working on it.