We’ll we’ve finally upgraded!
Right now, there is a brand new i7 rig sitting underneath my desk. 64 bit, and a ton of RAM. Thanks go out to everyone who helped out! Since I’ve been testing things out, and I have comics done until the 22nd of March, I’ve been playing around with things a bit. The first new thing we have done is a little piece called Stream. I did it as a lighting test and will be part of something that will appear in the followup to Requiem. (Click on each one for a larger version 🙂 )
The second one is called “Party of Nine” and is the first time the nine female leads in the comic have ever been rendered together in one image.
Enjoy!!!
Right now, I would estimate that render times are at about a quarter of what they were. And when it comes to using global illumination in renders, and full indirect lighting on panels for rendering, it’s the difference between hours and minutes on things.