Doing some test renders to check overall lighting and verify lights are on the right layers is taking a lot of time… even with anti-aliasing turned off. Only on a dual core AMD processor right now. Running Vista Ultimate 64bit. Think i’m gonna start looking at some cheap quad core systems with more ram and possibly Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

So… I took some time this weekend to start getting reacquainted with my animated short project, FWD-REV. I’ve got a lot of work to do, but I did start fixing some texturing issues on the main characters. Hopefully in a day or two I can clear most of them up and move on to building more of the environment. Got lots to do.. but I’ve finally got some motivation to get back to it.

It doesn’t look like a lot of progress… but i’ve done a lot of cleanup of different objects and materials and have rebuilt some things from scratch to make them simpler and faster to render.  Render times are already starting to get fairly long.  Check out the gallery for a few updated renders.

I’ve been working the last couple days on upgrading the materials on the electric drill and screw drivers.  Still not where I want, but they are coming along nicely.  I’m uploading some new renders to the photo gallery now.

Well.. with all the updates to Blender (http://www.blender.org/) in the last couple years its about time I start to get back to my animation, FWD-REV. Here is the teaser video we produced a while back. So much more is possible these days it will be almost like starting over again. Hopefully I’ll make a lot more progress this year than in the past couple.