I have a question about animation rendering in this course. I assume Kent has a really good computer, but still piano render took him 4 hours to complete. In comparison, I have an 7 year old laptop, these are my specs:
CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6 GB
Would it even be advisable for me to attempt to render any of these animations?
I was mostly interested in this course for the modeling / texturing aspect, so I would like to know if I should skip animation portion altogether if my laptop can't handle it.
Hi Aleksandra @~Ivy~ ,
"Would it even be advisable for me to attempt to render any of these animations?"
I wouldn't recommend it.
With those specs it will probably take forever to Render an animation like that. The fact that is a (old) laptop, makes it even worse; it might not even survive (much longer)... You could just Render 1 Frame and see how long that takes you...That'll give you a nice Render and also an estimate, how long it would take to Render the entire animation.
You can always use the render farm service SheepIt. Linking you up:
The problem with laptops is the Rendering, that's where things might get too warm, especially, if you'd be Rendering for 30 hours...Maybe it would hold up, but I wouldn't risk it.
For Modeling and so in Blender, they can perform well enough and not get into the danger zone.