So, Im re-rendering one of my animations from last year. Why? Well, I did the piece on very short notice for a Curator I have a lot of respect for, and he loved the lores previz and pushed me really hard (thanks to him) to do the near impossible, which was to deliver a 3 min 1080HD 3D CG anim in a timeframe that was unthinkable. The good news is it happened, and the piece came out as probably one of the most powerful pieces Ive ever done, and I was really happy with the show too. However, the only way I could make the render deadline was if I rendered without collision detection, I also skimped on the anti aliasing a bit too, since Im confessing and all ... and publicly too *_* Anyway, I love the piece, but I was just really bothered by what I knew had to be redone. I was told by a colleague that nobody would notice it, and that it was art, why bother? His joke was, if it was a commercial job I would have to redo it, but for art it was good enough and I shouldnt waste time rerendering it, nobody would ever notice or know. I told him, I would know, and ultimately I couldnt live with myself if I didnt go back and fix it. And lets face it, its kind of sad, that art can have such low standards come to think of it. So I redid the scene with collision detection and enough Anti aliasing for it to look extra crsipy gorgeoulicious, and set this baby to rerender 3 weeks ago on as many machines as I could find. Today, I data wrangled all but one itsy bitsy little segment left, which will be done in 9 hours. The piece is pretty strong as is, but this rerender is important, its one of those details that I see and know about, and I just couldnt live with. Ive been reading contemporary German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk as yall know, and Ive been thinking about this idea of exercise and a practice with a rigorous structure as more than just a necessity in a life, but as a way of transcending the self. He cites the academic structures in science and philosophy as examples mostly, because of their rigorous and tangible formats, sadly not so much art. Im dealing with a rigorous structure in terms of what I do I guess regardless of whether art upholds or not, Im the one defining it, and putting in the insanely long hours to do it. You figure its either OCD, some other form of neuroticism, or it is my practice, in the same way that Sloterdijk talks about. But then again, who knows, it could all simply be: I had to redo it and am doing it, period, nothing more or less than that. Now be forewarned that Im going to be Sloteridijking left and right as I wade through this dense chunky book here :-) ... anyway, I did the right thing.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:16:58 +0000
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