Nearing completion
With a little over a week to go, my graduation film is nearing completion. I’m 99.99% done with animation and compositing, and have just today started working on sound. The music is being taken care of by my friend Casper (who’s still living in the fabulous ‘80s and does not have a website) and it’s absolutely superb. Makes it all come together. I am kind of worried about the sound effects, because I’m the one doing it (and I suck at sound). We’ll see.
No computer is fast enough
The following quote from MacWorld’s NAB 2006 coverage made me chuckle.
“processors are no longer the bottleneck when running high-end applications like Shake, now it’s the speed of the hard drive.” – Kirk Paulsen, Apple’s Senior Director Pro Applications Marketing
Right. That is simply not true. At least, not for me, and I’m using a speedy dual G5 2GHz with 4 gigs of RAM. Maybe this is true for editing applications like Final Cut, but when you’ve got a complex shot in Shake, there is simply no way that the CPU is not going to be the bottleneck.
Shake
Check out the script above, that scene (from my graduation film) is in HD and takes about 3 to 4 seconds to render one frame. Anyway, end of rant.