Update - A Slight Delay
As you might've guessed from the still of Premiere pro above, the second reward - a continuation of Keeping Abreast of the Times is not quite cooked (the image above is literally the actual animation in progress, with about 95% of my work done on it).
With this animation I've been pretty ambitious - there are rarely scenes with fewer than 3 characters in it, and many with five or more. Now while that's something I can manage work wise with practice and knowhow, it is also something that cannot be shortened with rendering.
We run a render farm here of six powerful GPUs - normally on a regular animation the render time for one machine is about 5 minutes per frame. So a nice short 100 frame shot takes around 500 minutes, or 8.3 hours. However in this animation, the scenes with multiple characters and things going on in the background ended up on an average of 7.5 minutes, making the same scene now take 12.5 hours. A few hours many not seem like much, but this animation has over 13,600 frames. Believe me when I say there has been no point since about the 5th of the month when the whole render farm has not been rendering (or re-rendering scenes with errors) for 24 hours a day.
This is a very long way of saying that we're going to need a few more days. Normally I get close and can pull a rabbit out of a hat to hit deadline, as the thought of missing deadline makes me quite literally sick to my stomach. There is only one thing that makes me feel worse and that's providing a sub-par product. I could've set everything to super low res and have it out in time, but as I ask for your patience, I hope the result will be worth the wait.
So I apologize for the delay and will get it to you ASAP. We will send out the animation to everyone who was a member in July, to ensure that no one misses out.
tl;dr We need a few days to get the animation done and the reward will be sent to everyone who was an eligible patron in July a few days into August.
Comments (13)
Trust me for anyone who has dabbled with rendering at all, I get it. Sometimes, frames take awhile even with 4090s or 5090s. Seen a couple exceed even 30 min on a 5090 but that tends to fall on the side of the artist at that point, though I'm sure the BE team is pretty good at optimizing things by now ;). It's done when it's done!
Please don't get discouraged, everyone loves you and the work you create, so don't worry ♪ Even if it takes a little time, we hope you can make it to your satisfaction ♪
That is very kind of you to say.
Your power bill must be insane
Oh it is 😂 but the render farm does keep the office nice and toasty on a miserable day like we're having this week
I am a adult spending money to see a booba animation, if I could not wait for it then I would be too young too spend money on it. That is to say : Your the best don't worry, your worth the wait!
That might be my favorite response I've read on here. But I fully agree with you.
Delay just means you're making sure its ready which is way more meaningful than a deadline.
And his standards are very high - there are definitely things I would have let slide but BE Grove fixed them 😊
Being late isn't going to make most of us leave. I know for a fact renders with multiple people take a long while even with still comic images that I make. I'll still be here^^
Thanks for the support. It just blows me away how much extra it takes but the scenes would look odd to me without the extra people so we wait.
No need to be sorry end of the day these things take time take all the time you need
Its quite extraordinary just how long these things do take. Thank you for understanding.