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This is not tech related but sure is pipeline related. As an Executive Producer of a visual effects and design company working on commercials IÂ’m charged with filling the pipeline with work. The truck backs up to the main chamber and dumps itÂ’s payload into the system. The first Y in the pipe goes either to the expensive high end SGI/Flame direction or flows to the lower end desktop direction, or a little of both. My question to all is workflow and capacity with high price Discreet workstations vs. the less expensive desktop workstations. All are tools that do things better and different based on the task at hand. Adding more Flame seats is a lot more money but fast turnaround for demanding commercial clients that need revisions done quickly. However, several desktop workstations means more capacity for design, roto, rough comps, or final comps if you have enough time for turn around iterations and rendering as well as a creative supervisor.
From an EP stand point my world revolves around Time, People and Money. Is there a balance to this work flow process that is working well for anyone out there? Are you using several high end and desktop systems, taking advantage of Burn to speed things along as well as remote rendering for desktop systems? Can high end commercial fx work utilize the desktops or is it just best for design work?
I can relate to you dilemma. I have worked both ends. I have access to an Inferno. However I also do work on a Powermac G4. The truth about performance that I have encountered has much to do with the person operating the machine. Indeed the Inferno can do things faster but it is the most unflexible thing on the planet, it is not worth the speed. The solution I found are the new G5’s. They are actually faster than a SGI Tzero, plus they have Shake at half the price and all seems to point that 3D Labs is porting their cards. There are 64 bits, UNIX plus you get to run MS Office, Photoshop, Shake, Lightwave on a single machine.
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