The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty -Proverb 21:5

There is no Easy Button!!!

But I keep trying to press it and keep ending up more and more depleted. I was trying to shorten my rendering by only making two really large Matte Paintings. Problem is I was trying to make an image that was like 22,000 pixels wide and I was wondering why my computer was taking so long to render. You just can't do it. Not on my iCore7 with 16GB ram. I found this out when I gave up on it after it was still rendering after two and a half days and decided to go to a render farm. The Render Farm said to test your images and make sure one frame will render on a machine with 8GB of ram and 500 GB storage. I was like what limitations for a render farm when I realized, wait a minute, if render farms have these limitations to their computers I better check if I can render out one frame. I was rendering straight to disk. Well needless to say I tried to render one frame and the program crashed.

Lessons learned:

1) One Super gigantic Matte Painting that I can use for close ups and wide shots etc. is not possible via computers right now. My brother later told me I was trying to render out an image bigger than IMAX. Well I know movie images are 4k, 2k in the theatre for distribution, but what is the common image size used for most matte paintings? I haven't been able to find this out. The size I have rendered is 8000 x 3000 (Cinemascope) so I can pan within it. Now I will paint on it in photoshop then bring it into Maya to bring it to life.

2)Stop trying to press the easy button- Just do the work!!