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Happy 11th Anniversary MLP: FiM!

Added 2021-10-11 08:29:49 +0000 UTC

Thank you MLP for everything. :)

I decided to do this render on short notice, so I'm just a bit late, but here it is! Still can't jump back into doing stuff like this until the start of next year or so. Currently involved in some contract work that I'm doing that will be rapping up around that time, and then I'll have much more free time to get back into the swing of things. But I wanted to make the time to do something for the Anniversary when I heard it was that time of year. I wanted to show that I still have a very bright burning passion for this show despite my inactivity as of late.

This is the first time I've had all 6 of the main characters in the same scene rendered at the same time. That was an interesting challenge... and it also ended up using about 17GB of memory to render, which means my current GPUs couldn't handle this one (both of which have 8 GB of VRAM for themselves. To be fair, at some point I have some ideas to optimize the memory usage for these models so this shouldn't be as much of a problem later once I have time). This was all rendered on my AMD R9 5900x, which got this 5760x3240 image rendered in about 100 minutes, so the CPU investment is definitely paying off here, that time ain't bad for this size with this many characters.

Thank you all for sticking around during this time. I definitely look forward to talking about what I've been up to, as well as finally getting back to working on my own long term personal projects.