While at work on Saturday night i decided to give my old CGI project a second go, but instead of using the bought models i have, i decided to build them myself, below are the basic models that i will use in the tests and the pre-vis.
I still have a ton of modeling to do, and its just going to get harder, but then these only took a few hours to get the way i wanted.
421-S, wire frame
Wings of the Phoenix
421-S render
And below the up-grade to the 421-S
Phoenix-1, wire frame
Phoenix-1, render
Like i said i still have tons of stuff to do on this project, will keep you posted.
Also, in order to get over 300 objects on screen at the same time, i'll need to render maybe 2-3 at a time, so 100-150 renders, per shot.
If all the tests go well, and i get to a Hi-Res (pre-vis) final video, the next step is a 1080p HD, fully textured version which will take much much longer to do, the rendering time right now is at 2-3 seconds per-frame, in the 1080p HD textured final version it'll be more like 1-3 hours pre-frame, and with 24 frames per-second this 6 minute 30 second video is gonna take a long time to finish.
6:30 minutes = 390 seconds = 9360 frames and between 9,360 to 28,080 hours in rendering time.
So 390 to 1,170 days to fully render the different shots, then begins the editing, compositing, finishing (filters and effects) then sound design, sound FX and musical score.
All in all, if i can get this to work, my current computer might not be able to handle the processing of all the CGI work.
Wish me luck.
