:lol: :lol:
It took 22 minutes in the end anyway to render the 1024 x 768. First time I've ever rendered anything (to my knowledge).
I'm still impressed by the quality of images the miggy produces. I'm sure I could get the same out of a PC, quicker, and spending less £££s on hardware, but where's the FUN? I'd just find it frustrating, and get an overwhelming urge to throw the damn thing out of the window whenever anything went wrong.
Plus - where's the sense of satisfaction in knowing that your producing something on what - 10, 15 year old hardware that will still make people go "OOOOhhh, how did you do THAT?", especially when the answer is "on this obscure ageing computer which you have NO IDEA how to use, and probably never even heard of".
A lecturer at my university said last year that one of the advantages of the windows-based environment was that everything used the same GUI, thus everything was - vaguely - familiar. Whilst I can see his point, and may partly agree (neglecting the repulsive introduction of 'skins') I think it is a mixed bag, as it also creates a sense of sterility, of homogeneity, and a built up frustration of the whole operating environment.
Slightly OT, but I am glad to have Cinema 4D up and running finally. Thanks for the tips X-ray - sounds like I'll be using Photogenics 5 for the image manipulation. Have yet to get a suitable Mac OS to be able to use fusion (I've got Ifusion waiting in the wings, but same story - no OS to put on it :-( )
