Shademaster opened this issue on Jun 04, 2001 ยท 5 posts
Shademaster posted Mon, 04 June 2001 at 3:19 AM
I would like yo propose the idea of opening an animation gallery where people can post there movies (up to 2 megs or something like that). If you want to post bigger movies you just post a hyperlink. I've got some movies I want to show you, and because I don't have any webspace, this would be a great oppurtunity to let other people comment my animation skills. I think this because the majority of the CG world is all about animation.
rcook posted Mon, 04 June 2001 at 7:45 AM
We have thought about this in the past, and haven't come to a good solution on how to implement it as of yet. We have both drive space and bandwidth concerns to work out before we can move forward with this idea.
Dragontales posted Thu, 07 June 2001 at 11:38 AM
I'm actually curious about the drive space issue. I can't even imagine how much drive space you guys are using to host all these pictures. What I was thinking as a possible helper to this would be to limit how many pictures one could have on their gallery. It seems to me that there are some artistst that post multi pictures a day. Perhaps limiting how many pics on could have on here would help save space on the drives, allowing for an animation gallery. Or perhaps limiting space to a size amount. Ie. you have 2 megs of space to post all your pics... Dragontales
rcook posted Thu, 07 June 2001 at 12:37 PM
Also remember, that still images only take a small fraction of the space an animation would take up. Plus, there are some serious bandwith concerns too. Currently, Renderosity chews up over 25 GBs of bandwidth daily.
Dragontales posted Thu, 07 June 2001 at 3:57 PM
For such a popular site, how come I've never heard of this site anywhere outside this arena. This is such a huge community of artists and people, I'm very surprised it hasn't been noticed by larger business types. lol. "Something is doing well,...we should get a hold of it and run it into the ground."