So, now that our renders are only a few frames from being complete, I tallied up how much data they contain… I did the same thing around the same time last quarter and our renders were only 98 gigabytes, so we have seen an almost tenfold increase in data. Other than that, I have beenContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 08 Journal
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Week 04 Team Journal
0Another week, another team PPJ! We are chugging full steam towards the end of this project, and people are working a whole bunch. Chris worked on mopping up a whole bunch of little things, like props and minor fixes. Avery spent much of the week fighting the render farm. Juan started to feel betterContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 04 Journal
0Spending most of this week trying to deal with the farm, I feel like I have made significant progress towards making it work a little bit. On Friday, I met with Rob Dlugos from IT, and he has made several fixes to the farm already. The frequent network drops have been the bane of this projectContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 10 Journal
0This week, I am mostly working in my own little world to develop some tools for our productions. I never want to repeat last week again, so I am automating as much as I can with python. Here are some snippets: Hours Breakdown: Compositing – 7:30 Website Admin – 0:30 Technical Directing – 21:00 Adviser MeetingContinue reading
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Avery Brown Week 09 Journal
2Last week was spent assembling, rendering and compositing. The assembly process started out very inefficient and significantly improved by the end. Still, it was rife with mistakes and we had to double render over half of the shots that we completed. The reactor chamber was very much not ready to be rendered and needs significant optimization.Continue reading
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Avery Brown Week 08 Journal
0Avery Brown, Week 08 Journal If Walt Disney rose from the grave, I would hope that the very first thing he would do is apologize for XGen. Maybe Autodesk bungled it when they ported it to the public release, maybe Disney just works in a way that is conducive to the way Xgen works. Whatever the case,Continue reading
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Accessing AWExpress Off Campus
0So, accessing AWExpress from home is really annoying. I do not want Cisco AnyConnect on my computer, it is obnoxious and causes network connectivity issues. But, I have just learned that there is a really convenient way around this: vpn.drexel.edu! Drexel has a browser based system for accessing things on Drexel’s network with just yourContinue reading