More tech thoughts...
I try not let the tech get in the way of my work but when your doing computer animation its difficult sometimes to forgot your on a computer... and then you start thinking about the computers parts especially if they seem to get in your way or slow you down... the thing that can really bog you down is thinking you NEED the newest best CPU or GFX card or whatever.... even the newest version of the software you use.... SURE it could make you work a little faster or easier but its still YOU and YOU are the most important thing... software and hardware companies prey upon and probably survive by marketing to the people who have extra money and just buy all the best stuff that has "PRO" or "EXTREME" tacked onto its name... I don't even think a lot of them use the stuff for what its intended...instead they just run benchmarks all the time and compare results... When I started WATS I was on an AMD 4400 with 2gb ram and an AGP gfx card... and I was using Cinema 4d 9.1 on Win XP... when I finished I was using the same system and the same version of the software even though many revisions had come and gone... I found something I was comfortable with... and it didn't get in my way... it was reliable and it allowed me to create... it wasn't the fastest or the fanciest thing but that didn't matter... it was the artist behind the tools that mattered...
So now as I look to the post production of HSM that will come in a few months... my TWEAKER BRAIN has a chance to go... HMMMM I THINK WE NEED NEW HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR THAT haha... BUT I probably won't leave Windows XP 64 just yet ^ ^
I wrote this post to sort of remind myself that I do have everything I NEED in my brain... and that I need to ignore the tech WANTS because they are always there...distracting... getting you to compare things and price them with money you don't have ^ ^
So if you don't have a "pro" computer or "pro" software... don't worry.... your ideas will still win every time no matter the medium....Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.