We’re moving!
Hi Everyone! we just want to say that we are moving this blog to our studio site.
Check it out in www.sokistudio.com.ar
Right now the page of “Can you see me?” is empty of images and videos, and it’s in spanish (sorry for that). But we’re working on this, trying to finish the web page, filling all the contents and so.
We really apologize you for all this time when we don’t write anything here, we were also very excited for the movie, but we start to do thing to survive (I mean work for money) and that’s why we do a pause in the project.
We hope this movie get finished soon this year.
King regards for all, and have a good year!
The Soki Team!
. And you know that the comments and critics are really necesary because give us the posibility of see through other’s eyes for a moment.
Trailer released!
Hi everyone! It’s very special day for us because today we finish the trailer of “Can you see me?”
It’s very short because we dont want to reveal the story, and because we cannot render too many frames as we told before.
Hope you like it and please make a comment and feel free to distribute it to all your friends 
about render and farms :P
hello!, it’s pablo here!
as the title says, this post is about render, and because we dont have too much resources it’s about renderfarms too.
Well, first of all, let me start telling you about our movie. The final render size is going to be 1280×720 (HDTV 720p) ideally for web and dvd distribution. We currently are doing the lighting without Ambient Occlusion and Environment Lighting, it’ll save us a lot of time between frame and frame (sometimes is like 3x faster without that). Also, we are trying to keep models simplier, low poly and without subdivision surface (only main models will have 1 or 2 level of subsurf). So lighting will be based on spot lamps with shadow buffers.
So, even when we want really simply and fast ways to render, the times are really slow when we try to render shots.
Let me show you a small sheet with some facts:
| Without Ambient Occlusion | With Ambient Occlusion | ||||||
| frames x second | 24 | frames x second | 24 | ||||
| frames x minute | 1440 | frames x minute | 1440 | ||||
| aproximate movie length | 7 | min | aproximate movie length | 7 | min | ||
| average render time x frame | 2 | min | average render time x frame | 8 | min | ||
| -> render time x second | 48 | min | -> render time x second | 192 | min | ||
| -> render time x minute | 2880 | min | -> render time x minute | 11520 | min | ||
| Total Time needed | Total Time needed | ||||||
| minutes: | 20160 | minutes: | 80640 | ||||
| hours: | 336 | hours: | 1344 | ||||
| days: | 14 | days: | 56 | :S |
Render times based on a iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz 2.5Mb Ram
and, a quick render test between the two renders:
Without Ambient Occlusion (2 minutes)
With Ambient Occlusion (8 minutes)
Well, probably this shot is not the best example of showing the difference between using ao and not using it. Personally i really like with AO, but as you can see 56 days of render is just crazy impossible.
So we are looking for help, a renderfarm will be great, if you have one, or maybe you can help us to find one. Please write us a comment or send us an email to pablo_lizardo (at) yahoo.com.ar with the information.
We’ll be posting things almost every day, so stay in touch!! 
and please give us some feedback trought the comment section below, is very important for us!
Hello World!
Hello ! this is our first blog post
we are sabrina and pablo and toghether we create soki studio! our first production is called “Can you see me?” and we will be showing some pictures here… It’s planned to be released in October so stay in tune!
Pablo Lizardo
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