why is this the excuse for every creator that makes up bullshit for why they keep dragging out releases?
Well not to defend Wildeer specifically (because he really needs to get his priorities straight, like Lara in Trouble should not have gotten up to 8 parts while Gatekeeper stayed at 2 for so long), but there is a lot of things that go into a render. Still shots alone can take hours to cook depending on the settings. Animations even longer. And its not like a couple extra hours, its exponential, days even. And it also slows the shit out of your computer since it takes so much processing power. Add on extra factors like the program crashing, or something being out of place in the render that you didn't notice, and you can start to see why some things take so long.
It's also rendering though. He refuses to build a render farm and only renders at night, while he works on the same machine during the day. His entire work flow is a mess, from top to bottom.
I may be being naive (i.e. assuming he is not getting thousands of USD, EUR, GBP or equivalent every month through his sponsors), but a real heavy duty render farm (a bunch of machines or servers with rendering cards, the software to use them, optimised configuration also of local network), takes lots of money and some knowledge, though for Iray, an Iray server license is less expensive than what one could think.
)., understandable.Your points are all valid but, as you suggested, I do have to point out that he has 4K paid members on Patreon so he is definitely earning thousands every month!
Damnnnn.. render 4k video with 60 FPS is enough to make my potato laptop a burning campfire
I'm fully aware of the expense of a render farm, but you couldn't assume that. No problem. But, yes, your being naive about his income. Since at least 2021/2022 he's been making $10,000 plus or minus (per month). This is his only job. Any reasonable person would have reinvested some of that sizeable income into massively improving his work flow. This should have happened in his first year. He didn't do this because then people would expect greater productivity and he can simply pocket the money. He lives in Eastern Europe too, where the cost of living is much lower than in the Western part. He's just lazy and doesn't want to improve his speed, that's the only conclusion to be made.I may be being naive (i.e. assuming he is not getting thousands of USD, EUR, GBP or equivalent every month through his sponsors), but a real heavy duty render farm (a bunch of machines or servers with rendering cards, the software to use them, optimised configuration also of local network), takes lots of money and some knowledge, though for Iray, an Iray server license is less expensive than what one could think.
Not trying to defend him, just referring to a fact.
On the other hand, I have to admit, one can get very good rendering performances in terms of hardware and reduced speed, just by spending a bit of time to search and then buying a second hand workstation, a bit of extra memory and a couple of second hand GPUs cards to stick in, even if they are not the latest greatest model, all in all for a few thousands (I don't dare to say less than 3, but even considering some M2 disks and a bit of memory, should I think be less than 5k, though I mean EUR, it is a bit more in USD, a bit less in GBP).
I am not considering the way different renderers interact with hardware, I use Iray or occasionally for a preview Filament, but as far as I remember Blender with both eeve and cycle can also use NVIDIA hardware like the one I have - so, yes, I am not just talking out of theory, I did that process over time to build the machine I am using to write this (though the cards originally where not meant for rendering, but another purpose, though also nothing to do with "mining"
On the other hand, his work is good quality, people continue to pay him and I guess someone will reply saying he gets thousands every month, so, he probably does not feel too motivated in speeding up things, for fear of not finding another character and story he can make money out of for a long time
Well, for the rest, I am not saying, because the thing is, depending on the software one is using, animating can take a longer rendering time (x photograms per y second=x*y renders) but is mostly automatic, or rendering static images take less time for the rendering (only x, or x+n where n is assumed to be small, photograms) but posing etc. for each image can take a huge time.
).Lol. All I'm going to say is. Nyl, and his Bordello series is the same, if not better quality than SlowDeer, plus has a steady release schedule and communicates without BS.
Pity that Nyl apparently is specialised in futanari (not my cup of tea, in general)
, but you have a point. Anyway, I don't think Wildeer will change, if he gets betwen 4000 and 10000 a month, which I suspect may end up being at least in part even "under the table", and he clearly does see any coscience problem or so in his approach, he will not change it.
No he has two.
Thank you !!!
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