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This
film contains:
- 10,056
frames
- 1,557
individual pieces of artwork including:
426
models (43MB)
809
painted textures (116MB, JPEGs)
322
scenes (191MB)
- 21
pre-rendered image sequences (for backgrounds and animated textures) (3,156 frames)
- 300
dynamics simulation files (.mdd) (760MB)
- 192
sound effects tracks
- 450
MIDI tracks (spread across 12 sequences)
During
the making of this film:
- Render times averaged
about 3 hours per frame
- The
longest render was about 8 hours per frame
- An
average of 0.74 seconds of film were completed per week (that's including animation, sound, everything)
- Roughly 17.5 hours of sound FX were recorded
- I moved house 6 times
- I consumed around 3,500 sandwiches
- A Star Wars trilogy, a Lord Of The Rings trilogy
and a Harry Potter trilogy were made (not by me).
Gear List:
Software:
- Lightwave 3D 6.5 (animatics, models, animation, lighting, rendering)
- Painter 5 & 8 (concept art, storyboards, textures, rotoscoping, grading)
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Adobe Premiere 5.1 (editing, compositing, grading)
- Cubase SX 1.0 (music, sound fx recording/editing)
-
EWQLSO Platinum (orchestral score)
Hardware (Visual):
- Started with: Pentium 133, Matrox MGA Millennium
graphics card, 96MB RAM, 1.2GB hard drive, Wacom 6x8 graphics tablet,
15” KTX monitor
- Finished
with: Pentium III 500, Oxygen VX1
graphics card, 384MB RAM, 90GB hard drive, Wacom Intuos 2 8x12 graphics
tablet (after electrocuting old one with wrong power adapter),
17” Mitsubishi Diamond View monitor (23” Mitsubishi Diamond
Pro 2070SB for final post stuff)
- 2 x Pentium 4 2.8GHz for rendering
Hardware (Audio):
- Pentium 4 2.8GHz
-
M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard
-
M-Audio Revolution 7.1 soundcard (for surround mixing)
-
Creative Gigaworks S700 sound system
-
Ensoniq ASR10 sampling keyboard (used for early soundtrack ideas)
-
Yamaha AN1x synthesizer (used as MIDI controller)
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Sony MZ-R50 minidisc recorder
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Sony ECM-MS957 microphone
Budget Breakdown (approx) ($AUD)
- Hardware: $10,000
- Software: $3,500
- EWQLSO: $4,467.75
- 35mm Film Transfer: $4,700
- Mastering: $1,000
- Dolby License: $780
- Living Expenses for 6 years: $40,000
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