So, experimentation with the Russian machine… After some initial playing around I decided to try a fairly large Artistic render with a Flame for the style using these images
The timers for CPU vs GPU explain why I’ve never done this before
A day for a render on CPU - forget it! Under two hours - OK, I’ll play with that, it actually took about 90 mins in the end and I got this…
This is much more flexible than the standard styles that come with DAE - if you look closely at the image there’s a lovely fire grain effect running thru it.
So far so good - my Logo wants some work (like actually doing it) so I’m running a three hour job ATM with the same filter on an image I have for that that should work well as a text-texture over the original adding an interesting flamey text for the name to the project.
The cheap little Russian box is definitely worth the cash - no other way I can afford a GPU. The Russian overnight time deal is great value but I already want to play with it during normal hours.
At the moment it says it’ll be wiped in a week - it’s an upsell to get me to fork over another 2.50 to save the disk. I actually want it wiped and in about a week is good timing. Once its wiped it’ll go back to Russian then I can make a video on switching it to your language of choice. Actually, I should be able to automate that - need a wiped machine to try it on tho in the first place.