On 16/06/2010 9:08 PM, Markus Altendorff wrote:

> Aw c'mon, if I bother to fire up the 3D, then I want to tell some kind
> of story, dangnabbit ;)
>

Your animations *do* tell a story. I on the other hand prefer doing 
cyclic animations where the story is inferred.

>>> And my hypothesis in this regard has always been that a shorter
>>> time to complete forces a simpler project, and limits the duration of
>>> agony for
>>> a poorly designed one.
>>
>> I thought the opposite before but thinking about it, you're right.
>
> I beg to differ, but I'm easily persuaded :)
>


out for me for the moment.

>>> But I'll toss that idea out for whatever contest design,
>>> youtube or TC-RTC would make the old IRTC Animators produce material
>>> again.
>>
>> We can have what ever we want for the TC-RTC and I like the idea of
>> uploading a 10 Meg animation and posting a link to youtube as well.
>
> So far, my Youtubes have been "oh lookit here, the new Cinema4D can do
> bouncing cubes" ... not sure if throwing recreated tutorial output
> around is the right thing to get back into TC-RTCing ;)
>

I meant it more along the lines of defeating the 10 Meg limit for 
uploaded files. But maybe YouTube is not the best place.

>>> Markus, was your promise to *consider* producing, for an "open" TC-RTC
>>> round?
>
> There's still time until August 31, I gather?

The animation side of the site seems to be broken ATM and the server is 
going to offline for a physical move this weekend. After that has been 

again. Since it has been very quiet we can start afresh if no-one is 
working on anything, maybe talk about new rules etc. There is some talk 
about redesigning the site as work experience for a graduating student.

> See, my bat lady's wing
> mesh setup is pretty much in tatters at the moment, but I don't want to
> get back to a "legacy" configuration... :S
>

Ouch!

>> Overnight rendering is de rigueur. :-)
>
> Clustering isn't too shabby either :)
>

Nice.

> (though I must admit, since I switched from "idling workstation 2006" to
> "thin desktop 2009" for the daily computing stuff, my power bill has
> dropped by 1/3 ... and that tiny box is still good enough to complete a
> couple hundred frames overnight. Science! Progress! Isn't it wonderful?) ;)

Truly :-D

-- 

Best Regards,
	Stephen

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