Set Updates: Stage 1 done for "Inside of Cabin" Set, Stage 2 for exterior sets

Hey! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. "Stage 1" is done for the Cabin Interior set. (Bonus: first picture with temporary character)

As well as working on the Cabin Interior set, I've also been working on detailing the exterior sets. I think the most changed set is the Cabin Exterior set.

I still need to make the loft set, the inside of Fort Harrison, and the inside of a wigwam. Then I'll just need to add extra details to those sets, and I think I'll be pretty much finished! Of course, I'm going to add more details as long as I can get away with it. :D

~ Beth Ashton

Rendering Times and Release Dates

Hey there White Feather fans, this is Seth checking in to give you our latest update with the production as a whole.  Beth and I were discussing approximate release dates, and in the course of our discussion we came up with a rough estimate of rendering times.  A very rough idea is that it will take 12 minutes to render each frame, basing it off the 8-10 minute render times we're getting right now with the sets 80% completed.  If that is true, then with 12 minutes of render time a frame, it's going to take 360 minutes to render a second of video since we'll be running it at 29.97 fps (standard NTSC) rounding it up to 30 for calculation purposes here.  That tells us that each minute will take 360 hours to render, and with a projected finish time of 15 minutes for the final film, we're expecting it to take 5,400 hours, or 225 days, or approximately 7 and a half months to render the entire video.  But don't be too scared, because that would be with only one computer rendering (24/7 of course…) and I've got a couple I'll probably be using and Beth has one she'll probably be able to help with.  But all in all, we've set February 16, 2012 as our current release date.  Of course that is VERY approximate and I'm hoping it will be sooner, but that gives everyone a concrete date to look forward to anyway.  Well, gotta run now but hope you're enjoying watching the progress!!  Aren't the sets looking absolutely stunning???  Beth's doing such a great job!

Set Updates - Stage 1 completed for "Indian Village" set

Hey there! Just forced myself to stop working on the Indian Village set. I think it is about at the stage of the other sets. Boy, it's hard to back off of this one! So many details can be put into this one. Well, I've finished the wigwams and the ground, textures and all. Full size still shot takes 5.25 minutes to render with 1000 trees (less then half the amount I think it'll have for the final render).

Also, bonus today! Here are some pictures from the various sets. These are all in-complete. There are several more details I'm planning to add to all of them.

~~ Beth Ashton

Set Updates - Stage 1 completed on Fort Harrison Set

Just finished stage 1 on the Exterior Fort Harrison set. I think this set has the most vertices of any of the other sets, but I'm not sure. It did take the longest to render, though; a wide angle shot took exactly (down to the second) 9.5 minutes to render a single frame. There are several things I will modify later, but I'm going to get started on the Indian village set next, I think.

Set Updates - Stage 1 completed for "River Shore" Set

Hi! Just wanted to say that I just finished the river shore set in a record breaking 23 hours! (and actually, half of that time was spent sleeping and goofing off, so it was more like 6 hours or so) The set consists of several long-render features. It has a river, 75,000 reeds, 200+ trees, and 50+ raspberry bushes, each of the raspberry bushes having several hundred leaves. But inspite of all this, the render time is going to be around 6.4 minutes.

Set Updates - Stage 1 Completed for "Outside the Cabin" Set

Hey! Just wanted to mention that I just finished the main stage of the first set. Later I'll come back to it and fix a few minor details, add some more trees, that sort of thing. But before I get to the fine-tuning point, I'm going to get started on some of the other sets. The next one is going to be the river shore. This one will be interesting. Water, lots of plants, etc. Should be fun!