Steve Sugrim

A few thoughts on leadership, from an unexpected place - the bottom. #leader #leadershipskills #leadershipdevelopment #trolls #companysuccess #motivation #stevesugrim https://www.linkedin.com//disconnected-leadership-trolls-s

TECH BRAG: Been deep diving into 3D animation lately, which needs an incredible array of skills and technology to succeed. One of the things that makes 3D hard is the amount of computing power it takes to render a single image. With 30 images in a second, 60 seconds in a minute - you can see how even a 10 minute animation would require 18,000 frames and incredible amounts of CPU time.... With this in mind, I managed to create a frankensteined in-studio 3D render farm - a small army of old computers (9 in fact!) working together to render an image by sharing portions of the 3D art (called tiles), computing it, and giving it back to the main computer to complete the final image. I can't believe I got it to work! The image below of the BMW would normally take around 30ish minutes to render fully. With my new slave army, I was able to get that image down to 6 minutes flat, even with a 10 year old Mac in the mix. But even my 10 minute animation will need 75 days to render with 9 computers. Going to see if my wife will let me buy some more CPUs!

Listen to woeful conversation of a Himalayan wanting a midnight snack

Got the rockin' Dwayne Jackson from Black Eyed Barbie to belt out a rock tune I wrote recently. A bit of lockdown fun with some iPhones, green screens and computers. Enjoy!

Untouched photo - beautiful!