update: shortfilm, rendered in octane.

[cornel]

Hey folks,

I´m currently working on my diploma short film, which will be released in 6 weeks, and I´m afraid I won´t have any time left to render this in octane:
4320 frames for 3 minutes, twice, as I need two views for stereoscopic 3D: in sum, 8640 frames!

I would really love to use octane for this, the overall quality & tone mapping are top notch and would save alot of time & work in post,
but,
one bottleneck remains: Voxelization time for every frame. On a single machine it´s nearly impossible to get the job done with that amount of frames to be rendered.
I guess I have to use a vray renderfarm instead to get the job done in time, sadly I still have problems to match the high quality of Octane with my poor vray knowledge.

Questions:
Any GPU farms out there? Even the smallest would help me!
BTW; what happened to the "users render for users" idea which was discussed here a while ago?

Seriously, I need help.

Greets,
Cornel

update: Some preview stills from my short "Polyphag":

[colorlabs]

Well, I hear Amazon has GPU renderfarms running Linux CentOS. No idea how that works or if Octane works there.

Also, voxelization might be faster if you poly-reduce your models. I know this is tedious and tricky especially if the camera is moving, but it might be worth the effort...

[face]

I think the big packages have all a LOD system, so that the camera movement isn´t a problem.

face

[DayVids]

I don't know anything about the GPU farms available, but make sure that you have time to push your film through AE, so that you can force motion blur on the animation. AE -> Time Remap -> speed at 100%, force motion blur, and set an appropriate shutter angle.

That's how I make my animations out of Octane, if I have to animate something other than the camera.

[mbetke]

Voxelization time for every frame

Wow didn't knew. A real show stopper.

You maybe could render to 10fps only and speed it up to 30fps later. I do it sometimes and it works nice.

[cornel]

thanks for your tips, guys, but I do need those 24 fps straight out of the renderer.

I´ll get the ultimate delay, but I really want Octane for this.
Amazon might be an alternative.

[Daniel]

Those renders look very nice. I like the style.

[Refracty]

Hi Cornel,
nice previews.
What software do you use to animate?
Are you at IFS, KISD or KHM?
Cheers
Refracty

[cornel]

thanks!

I use C4D, mainly.
This project is part of my diploma thesis @ FH-Duesseldorf.
More to come...

[Refracty]

I live in Cologne, too.
Big ups to Düsseldorf.
We stay tuned.
R