Loklo Media 3D Animation Blog

So I’ve determined that providing businesses with Technical 3D animation is still where I want to be, business wise. I still offer and support web design/development, but the 3D is where I want to be. I will be devoting more internal practice and training to 3D – in architectural examples as well as technical/engineering examples. I plan on expanding my portfolio of both still and animated renders on my site, both to showcase my current abilities, the current abilities of the software, and to keep my technical abilities nicely polished.

Now, you may be asking – who uses this kind of animation/3D service? Well, pretty much anyone with a design or an idea that they want or need to sell or show off. Perhaps it’s a developer who needs to show off how glorious the new architectural design is for his prospective buyers; or the engineer that needs to show what the final design will be for approval by the city. It doesn’t really matter. Lots of businesses need 3D services, and I’m here to help them out. That’s what I do best – I help people.

see the old Loklo Media technical animation gallery here.

8500GT 3D Mark06 Stats

These are the embarassing stats of my existing entry-level/budget video card.  It works for Blender, since blender is so happy with any resources, and is not a resource hoggy type of an app.  But for 3DS Max, that’s another story.  Hence the coming of the ATI.  It should arrive anytime now, according to the tracking info.

The Nvidia handles 3DS Max objects pretty well, but when you get large scenes, with hundreds of objects, and then complixify it with animation, the display struggles.  Lower FPS than is acceptable.  (I’d be ok with 15-20fps for a large scene, but the one in question runs at around 3-5).

Now The New Radeon

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 3D Mark Stats

Ok – so the Radeon is definitely better.  It whopped the Geforce 8500, which was expected.  Interestingly though, the CPU score with the Radeon is a little lower.  I’m not sure if that’s reflective of the extra bandwidth being used, or something else.  Anybody with comments?

So the Radeon is also definitely faster in the 3D viewport in 3DS Max Design 2009.  It’s hard to give any exact test numbers for comparison, as I didn’t record anything officially with the Nvidia.  But it is faster – no doubt about it.

It’s also faster by a couple orders of magnitude in the GPU based Folding@Home program.  Again, no official numbers, but waaaay faster.

So for only $230 after mail in rebate, It’s definitely a worthy card.  My bottleneck now, I think, Lies in my motherboard’s budget abilities, and my budget ram.  Even though the q6600 is overclocked, it’s not fast enough due to mobo limitations.