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@compfu@mograph.social
2026-03-17 08:11:48

Amazing piece of #VFX lore. Today artists are complaining that you can‘t have 3 Nuke windows open on 128 GB RAM because they have 10 browser windows and 2 electron apps running at the same time. mastodon.social/@Drwave/116242…

Michael B. Johnson (@Drwave@mastodon.social)
During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs. Why? 3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux. Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue? No. IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter. So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit. It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max. Plenty for Finding Nemo.

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-03-04 17:43:50

Inefficiencies in VFX: once again a studio sent us thousands of uncompressed EXR files for lens grids and frame leaders. They just let the camera run for 1 minute on 24fps and repeated that for a dozen lenses. More than 1 Terrabyte. But we only need a single frame for each lens and it could have been a 200 kByte JPEG. 😳
Don‘t want to know what the client pays IBM for their Aspera cloud storage and egress fees.

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-03-22 17:59:27

zdepth buffer visualized
#vfx pixelfed.social/p/arcturus/939