[Orange-tech] Re: Renderfarm setup

[antont at kyperjokki.fi]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:38, antont at kyperjokki.fi wrote:
> Long time no posts, but now we are getting there!

hello again - did you receive this message, down there at Bowie State? what's 
up?

~Toni

> I hope everything is fine with XSeed and DrQueue. Work here at Orange is
> going on strong, Matt and Andy are acting a scene right now (for Matt to
> get a feel of it for making it to the animatic, which is due this Friday..)
> .. don't worry, Lee is videoing the acting for the making of so I guess
> you'll get to see that too :) .
>
> For the 1st animatic opengl rendering is fine, so we have no urgent need
> for heavy rendering now, but of course want to do tests in time. How should
> we proceed?
>
> The teaser is due to be released in mid-October, at the Blender conference,
> beginning on 14th .. so we have two weeks for it. It will be approximately
> 30seconds, which is only ~720 frames with 24fps .. only two per processor
> if you use all of XSeed, right?-)
>
> We started using SVN here for production files, and try to keep that part
> of the repository clean of extra data, so that only the sources for
> rendering would be there. So when things get serious, we hopefully can use
> the update mechanism provided by the versioning system (svn is a cvs clone,
> basically) to keep a copy of the repository in sync up there at Bowie
> State.
>
> Looking forward to first tests,
> waiting for instructions about how to proceed with them,
> ~Toni
>
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:41, Prof. Mark Alan Matties wrote:
> > PS - Daryl Davis (cc'ed on this mail) is the student of mine who will be
> > working on this project.
>
> is Daryl already on this orange-tech list? i wasn't sure so am keeping in
> Cc too.
>
> oh and in case someone doesn't know, we are posting updates on work as
> blogposts to http://orange.blender.org/
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