It turns out I'm going to probably have to spend some of my beloved Steem.
I spent the last couple of days working on some motion graphics. I'm really happy with the modeling and animation so this morning, around 6am I set up a 4k render at a bitrate of 80 megabits/ second set at 1k samples. This will certainly be a high quality output.
Nice, right?
Well, it is now 8pm and my i7 machine has rendered out... 10 frames. It has 220 more from just this scene. I have over 9 scenes more - so far. I was thinking of doing more. That just doesn't even work.
This is what it has been doing all day - lol
Obviously, I can bring the output quality back a bit, but where is the fun in that?
I have long planned to go with Dell or build one myself this time, but I really think its time to take a serious look at System76, especially since I am a Linux operator. The question now is whether to go with a desktop or laptop.
These days, we aren't really giving much up if we want to run a laptop. Obviously, since my work is in video and 3d animation, I want a pretty potent machine, but this Bonobo seems to have plenty of graphics performance. They will put two GTX 1080s in the thing, if I want (I do).
Ugh. I'm so cheap. Well, cheap isn't the right word. I will spend good money on good tools, but pulling the proverbial trigger is really hard for me.