Xavier

Large fox standing in front of the viewer wearing plain blue boxers. "body" of the viewer is pinned down by the fox's thumb

Large fox standing in front of the viewer wearing plain blue boxers. The boxers are more wrinkled than in the previous image "body" of the viewer is pinned down by the fox's thumb

Large fox standing in front of the viewer wearing plain blue boxers. The boxers are are darker shade of blue and more translucent than in the previous image "body" of the viewer is pinned down by the fox's thumb

Large fox standing in front of the viewer wearing plain blue boxers. The boxers are are lighter shade of blue, less translucent , and more detailed than in the previous image "body" of the viewer is pinned down by the fox's thumb

Endless materials tweaking....

Yeah! It can scale quite a bit.

I used to have 6 machines, but 4 of them I retired due to either failed hardware or not worth the running costs. Some of them were built in 2007-2008. Most of the original render farm I had was built from machines literally found in trash cans

That 3rd machine is one a friend lets me use a few hours a day

It largely depends on how many machines I have attached.

Before I got any usable GPUs, it'd shrink my render times from a year+ down to 3 months.

These days it's more like 3 weeks to 2 weeks (unless I can borrow more compute power). I've got one RTX 3080, and one Xeon(R) CPU E7- 4830 @ 2.13GHz

Screenshot of a render management program displaying 3 connected servers in various states of progress

Renderfarm go brrrr

Rainy day
funk/disco music playlist
Warm cozy room

Updating a distributed rendering system tool to automatically manage blender versions

it's a vibe

Thank you! I'm like 2 months into this one XD

3d POV render of an anthromorphic fox with dick on the table to the left of the viewer's POV, black background, harsh lighting

3d POV render of an anthromorphic fox with his thumb in waistband and tugging down. As seen as a basic colored 3d model as a screenshot of a window of a 3d modelling program

Some of the even earlier stages...

3d POV render of an anthromorphic fox with his thumb in waistband and harsh shadows cast onto his shorts as seen from a low angle

3d POV render of an anthromorphic fox with his thumb in waistband and soft shadows cast onto his shorts as seen from a low angle

3d POV render of an anthromorphic fox with his thumb in waistband and tugging down, softer shading in the image overall than the previous two

3d POV render of an anthromorphic fox with his thumb in waistband and tugging down, softer more visually appealing glow effects and color toning added vs the previous 3 images on this post

4 of the many many stages of refining lighting while animating....

That's such a cool concept!

Also, my foxboi

A macro trying to sneak up on a friend they know lives downtown, crawling through on all-fours as low to the ground as they can, despite barely fitting in the streets

but at the same time simply unable to not cause damage to everything around them

Fox magic ahaha XD

Trying to do fabric simulation for a pair of shorts...

Why does all the fabric fly upwards???

Turns out I had set gravity to be reversed years ago in the blend file and never changed it back to normal.

It behaves a lot better now.

It is kinda funny though.

Also being an animator that likes to put in a lot of subtle movements despite the amount of time it takes

I appreciate the small details you add and understand how much effort goes into it!

At the end of the day it's better off doing stuff YOU want to see done anyway ^^

Greyscale model of a lean, muscular, Anthropomorphized fox in shorts shrugging

Why does giving him shorts make him hotter...

A manectric

Gonna be at MFF soooon

If you see me there, don't hesitate to say hello!
I don't bite!

Makes me wonder if these industry measurements that they were originally using were created based on games that either didn't do background loading, OR had a lot of small files.

Would love to find the original dataset

Holy heck that'd be a view

Will be seeing you in Rosemont!

yeah I do! I chop it up and throw it in near the beginning, it adds a mild vegetal flavor to the whole thing!

Alternatively you could cook it down and add it in more than 50% of the way though the cooking time

Yesss

Also Bok Choy is good in spaghetti too!

Aww thanks!

If it weren't for the blue glow I might be pretty hard to spot!

I really wanted to try to capture the vibe of autumn here!

A still 3d render of a giant fox sliding down the side of a shallow hill through a forest of trees. Just in front of him is stream with more orange and red leaves floating down In the background is more tree covered hills streching into the distance with a partly cloudy sky beyond

The end of Autumn is fast approaching, winter is nearing

What better way to end it other than jumping into a pile of leaves!

Playing with shaders

Dang those are some pretty good shots of the moon you got there!

💚❤️💖

Even better with some means of two way-communication too

Thank you!

Tbh the expression kinda just fell into place, it was leftover from another test render I was doing XD

but it works!