Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> Today, I had some words with a 3DSMax user that was frightened
> by a 1 week render of mine :-)))

I generally allow twenty minutes per frame when working on my IRTC
entries (allows a 50 second animation to be rendered in about two
and a half weeks).

I calculated that doing a film in POV-Ray, using 704x480 frames, at the
same rendering quality I use now would take 88 days of rendering on my
K6-2/300 for every minute of animation.

However, if I were to get serious about animation I would get a dozen
Athlons running at 800 MHz (this is where I appear to get the most
bang for the buck).  This would reduce rendering time down to 40 hours
for each minute of animation; a feature-length film could be rendered
in five months at this rate.  Whereupon I would probably increase the
render quality and set myself back time-wise...

Regards,
John
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