Sirius Gallery
In 1995 I had the opportunity to create a promotional video for Sirius Entertainment.
On a four month schedule I managed to design, model, choreograph, and render six
minutes of high resolution 3D animation at 30 fps, while continuing to work 40-50
hours a week at my regular job. It consisted of 11663 frames rendered on two Amigas
running around the clock, with an average render time of twenty minutes per frame.
At that speed, I had to take a lot of shortcuts, sacrificing motion blur, shadow
rendering, reflectivity, and anti-aliasing, but I delivered what I promised and I
got the job done on time! Archiving that much data turned out to be an unexpected
problem, and I had to run home over lunch every day to start a tape backup so that my
250Mb hard drive wouldn't fill up. Those were good times. Modeled and rendered in
Lightwave 3D.
(Amiga 24-bit image - 1995)