{"id":1919,"date":"2015-05-14T00:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T05:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2015-05-14T00:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T05:08:41","slug":"group-scene-on-steriods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2015\/05\/group-scene-on-steriods\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Scene – On Steriods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current scene I am animating is a large one. It has plenty going on – as well as a lot of characters in it. The sequence I am specifically working on is very intense. Below is a screenshot of Lightwave’s Schematic View (which shows the various objects within the scene file):<\/p>\n

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Each red\/white\/blue cluster represents a character. As the image above shows, there are twenty of them in this file. This specific sequence is needed to establish many of the upcoming closer shots, which is why I need a file with this many characters. Right now I am getting all the characters in place for the sequence, and then I plan on splitting things up into groups of characters via sub-files.<\/p>\n

In the past, there was no way I would have been able to work on a file like this. My previous computers would slowed to a crawl after four or five characters. Ever since my new computer was built, I noticed a significant increase in performance (to be fair, my last previous computer was \u00c2\u00a0about ten years old). However, even this has exceeded my expectations.\u00c2\u00a0This does appear to be reaching a reasonable limit as the \u00c2\u00a0scene is running a little slower than normal – but not nearly as bad as my other computers did when it got bogged down. Plus, with twenty characters, I can’t really complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current scene I am animating is a large one. It has plenty going on – as well as a lot of characters in it. The sequence I am specifically working on is very intense. Below is a screenshot of Lightwave’s Schematic View (which shows the various objects within the scene file): Each red\/white\/blue cluster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}