Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social

CG Generalist by day, Brony Fan Animator by night
He/him, bi
Icon by @ayveestars.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/mintyroot

Updated my Minty ref sheet, finally added a reverse side for the mane.
You can still just flip the original side tho.
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Closed interiors are more annoying to render than open ones since every ray will bounce multiple times before hitting a light source.
This one is even more annoying because it's a lot of specular reflections, for a long sequence, and it's set inside.
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So I'm dealing with a scene that gives me rendering problems, I'm gonna have to rely on a weird optimization technique I haven't used since The Beginning of Harmony.
Stay tuned.
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Frozen made 1.28 billion dollars by the way.
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In honor of @IronCaptain19.bsky.social …

MONORAIL! MONORAIL! MONORAIL! MONORAIL!
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So I got curious and ...
Yeah, I may be dumb. I got 24GB on Luna and Dinky, and for some reason it wasn't set to use it all.
For some reason it was set to leave 14GB of RAM for everything else, but since this is a computer mostly dedicated to renders, this is pretty wasteful.
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Okay, so I reran the last one but on Celestia. I assumed at first it would take 4 hours because the CPU is about three times faster on multi-core, but it only took two.
RAM usage reached out over 24GB at times, so it seems like the constraint is memory, not processing.
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The bloom filter is an interesting one. I didn't like the weird digital looking falloff from the existing solutions, so I stacked 10 separate blur layers with exponentially increasing radiuses together to get a nice smooth falloff. That's somewhat computationally expensive even on GPU.
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I'll have to do some profiling to find the culprit.
It might either be the bloom filter or the Kuwahara filter since they're the elements that changed since last project.
I'm gonna have to see if I can optimize them.
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So this might have gone a bit out of hand. The comps for the project are now reaching 12 hours to render.
Granted, those are render times on Luna and Dinky, on Celestia this might only be four hours, but that's still only for 15 seconds of footage.
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I have obtained the footage.
I am very wet.
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I need footage with rain for my project, so I've been waiting for enough rain.
Guess I'll stay up until 4AM for this.
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Thinking how in summer camp one year, our camp monitor went with us to Canadian Tire to buy CFL light bulbs to swap incandescent light bulbs in the neighborhood.
We swapped light bulbs outside without asking.
Those people must have been really confused seeing brand new light bulbs out there.
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And the idea of sharing the color palette between the mascots isn't unique, in fact the BronyCon mascots did it and they just work together.
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I gotta say, I dig the orange and blue palette for that con.
Reminds me of an old math textbook I had that was only printed in orange and blue, it's an interesting limitation and really makes it unique.
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Have a sad Twinkle Sprinkle.
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Welcome back, BABSCon.
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So it dawned on me, it seems like act 2 of my project only has seven shots requiring Cycles renders, everything else is EEVEE.
I should be able to render them before the weather warms up.
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Happy trans day of visibility from the baddest witch of them all <3🏳️‍⚧️
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Emerald Star @ayveestars.bsky.social
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Happy TDOV
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If you follow me on Patreon, I have just made a pretty big update on my project.
www.patreon.com/posts/154267243
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Currently torturing a CPU from 2014 to get the last frames for the last two shots of act 1 of the project.
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So while I'm still in-between two work contracts, I wanna post again my Patreon. I've made a lot of progress on my current pony project, and if you want to see things before everyone else, I think you might enjoy it.

www.patreon.com/MintyRoot
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Nnaly @nnaly.bsky.social
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She comfy

#mlp #mylittlepony #twilightsparkle
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Did I mention that Toon Boom is actually pretty slow at rendering things?
I have a separate computer dedicated to Toon Boom renders because of that.
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Only four shots left to complete for act 1.
The Toon Boom animation should be done rendering tomorrow morning, and I should then be able to do the comp for the shot pretty quickly.
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I'm still physically and mentally drained from the convention.
Taking the rest time to render shots and do comps. I already got five shots complete with a sixth that only has 14 frames left to do.
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InkKey @inkkeystudios.bsky.social
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Freebie Completed!
Hope you like it. Thank you for letting me draw them!
#mlp #art #oc
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@magpiepony.bsky.social
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My appeal was denied. I am officially demonetized. In order to continue to make My Little Pony parody videos for the next 90 days, please consider supporting me and/or sharing this link. You will find a more detailed explanation in this chain.

patreon.com/magpiepony
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Nevaylin @nevaylin.bsky.social
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the color brings out her eyes :)
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