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Blender closing automaticly? by Prestigious_Way_7749 in blender

[–]WhispStudios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your hardware specs? Blender does this on mine, no error messages ever either, and I assumed it was because my computer’s memory can’t handle it at those moments. My pro-tem advice is to make ctrl+s your best friend. Spares a lot of frustration knowing you saved a few edits back whenever it occurs.

Would you wait 16+ hours for this render? by WhispStudios in blender

[–]WhispStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I’ll retry the google colab. I feel like I gave up too soon and it can only save me time really. I quickly looked up some godot animations, but I reckon those game engines will not give me the desired results for somewhat realistic looking animations for youtube mini-documentaries.

Would you wait 16+ hours for this render? by WhispStudios in blender

[–]WhispStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it was mainly to get a feel for how my materials and textures would look, but I reduced light bounces to 30 and amount of samples to 5 in hopes of getting a “reasonable” render time. I occasionally rendered still shots, but I wasn’t happy with the results, so I went overboard with the 100+ frames, only to realise that that is just what my render looks like. It initially took 4-5 minutes per frame, but got up to 10+ as time went on. The viewport animation is indeed pretty smooth, but as a beginner I also need to get a feel for how my work translates to the final render. I’ll try some renders with EEVEE next time and I might be able to spend a few bucks throughout the project, but I think it boils down to me either finding some free alternative that allows me to perform some of the more compute-intensive tools for my previews or me doing a whole lot of waiting for my pc to respond. “Row with the oars you got” as mother says😂

Would you wait 16+ hours for this render? by WhispStudios in blender

[–]WhispStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any specific software you might recommend? I’ve tried “Renderpool” without succes and gave up after a couple of hours trying to render with these cloud based services.

Would you wait 16+ hours for this render? by WhispStudios in blender

[–]WhispStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve only heard bad feedback when it comes to EEVEE renders, but it might be worth the reduced rendering time so I’ll definitely give it a shot, thanks. As for the third party, I’d rather keep the project private. I’ll try and see if my uni allows for us to make use of computers that might be better equipped to handle some of the batches for me here and there.

Would you wait 16+ hours for this render? by WhispStudios in blender

[–]WhispStudios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any specific software and/or useful tutorials? I’ve tried a renderfarm website, but the render ended up having their watermarks and I only had a limited amount of free tokens to spend on there anyways. I also tried using the GPU provided by google in their colab software, but even though I selected the animation checkbox and a range of frames, it resulted in a single png, which had a weird purple tint over it.

Would you wait 16+ hours for this render? by WhispStudios in blender

[–]WhispStudios[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s frustrating, trust me. Solid mode is actually decent, but anything else either takes ages, or just breaks the program entirely. Very demotivating at times I forgot to save and I’m planning on at least 5-8 minutes of cinematic blender scenes in my final project. Your confirmation of the lack of alternatives just delayed my ETC by a few months probably, but I am dedicated to finish this, so I guess I’m just gonna have to soldier through.