Originally Posted by
Tyzi
that's because people put work into their videos and the renders take about 4 years with all the pretty bells and whistles
Dunno about 4 years
We used to end up leaving our machines rendering the videos over night, and quite often the rest of the next day too. Wouldn't take that long to render them now though since processors have came a long way since.
Most the time was spent getting the sync on sound, fighting with freecam (which has some weird acceleration issues), sorting shaders etc etc. It'd easily take well over a week to put it all together. During which we'd make small test renders and show them to each other because.
In Rob's case he even made all the shaders for the OLDA video, and nearly gave up a few times - the only reason I entered the compo was to motivate the others into finishing their stuff to stop me from winning it again.
Twas a well deserved win for him.