Ren'Py How essential are animations?

[n00bi]

I know this was posted partly as a joke

Yes ofc. but if you have a 9754 for a give away. i wouldn't mind taking it off your hands.
Also the CPU i was referencing has 4x as many cores compared to the 3970x (128 "256 logical" vs 32 "64 logical").

But yea. CPU rendering is dead slow compared to GPU.
Wish i would afford a Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada card tho.

 

[Warscared]

animations are like kinks, essencial if your story is bullshit,
useless if you already got the penning down sorted and attuned properly!

 

[osanaiko]

Yes ofc. but if you have a 9754 for a give away. i wouldn't mind taking it off your hands.
Also the CPU i was referencing has 4x as many cores compared to the 3970x (128 "256 logical" vs 32 "64 logical").

But yea. CPU rendering is dead slow compared to GPU.
Wish i would afford a Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada card tho.

Holy shit, that Epyc 9754 is USD$12000. And it needs a server-class motherboard. Wow.

 

[Mr Editor]

My renders take longer than 10 minutes

For the animation, I stripped out everything except the two characters. I tried to match the lighting and set a max render time of one minute, although it ends up taking about 1 minute 30. Denoised after, not with Daz denoiser and composited with static render of background in video editing software.

I am happy with the result, but it does take longer than setting up for a static render.

 

[alpcraft]

to be honest if animations gonna be corny its better to not put in on the first place. you can add more picture in the scene for the plot or the other stuff to fill the gap if its too necesarry.

 

[osanaiko]

I think the expectation of what 3d-animation CAN be has been set very high by the dedicated blender porn loop animators.

Those short clips from such creators are each a multi-month high-skill endeavor, way out of reach for any solo game dev who is also juggling all the other tasks.

There are a handful of games who have dedicated animators on the team (NLT for example) which also set the bar at a level that seems unreachable for most.

 

[Haptales]

Personally, I prefer renders to animations, easier to scrutinize every detail ^^
But I can't deny that when browsing the latest updates page, even a short and simple animation can catches my attention.
I also think it's better not to focus too much on the high quality standard of more dedicated people, because it's the easiest way to get discouraged and do nothing at all.