Hello and advise me on a PC build for 3d art
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:29 pm
Hi my name is Max,
im a 2d artist trained in traditional painting and drawing. Prior to the pandemic I was teaching art in my hometown of Montreal.
Over the past year ive been learning digital art. The direction I want to take my career is entertainment design for movies or story boarding.
These days it seems its really essential for concept artists to have some 3d skills, having messed around with sketchup as a kid I decided to return to it and have been encouraged seeing masterworks by guys like Chris Rosewarne using it for films.
I am also learning blender as well and while I enjoy it and see its value in some areas, its so much slower to do simple things than sketchup that I dont see myself using it more than 20% of the time.
Ive settled on Twilight render pro for my sketchup renderings....because well....ive got myself hooked on the free version and I really like what Ive gotten out of it. Ultimately im a 2d artist and anything I build and render in 3d im going to paint on top of in photoshop anyways.
What has come to my attention is how under powered my PC is for rendering. Its a fairly modest gaming PC. Ive never felt the need to dump alot of money on my computer but as far as my career goes its a business expense so now im looking to invest whats right to get the good results.
I have a ryzen machine with a 2700x , rx570 and 16bg ram.
im considering a Lenovo p620 workstation with a 12 core threadripper and 64gb of ram.
The ram might seem overkill but I am also considering this PC for Vr and adobe medium. I have a long experience with traditional clay sculpting and its something id like to be able to do in VR. From what I have seen with medium users is that the program is paging like 50-60gb even on simple sculpts to their SSD while working. Alot of people have complained that 16gb is not enough for such a heavy voxel program.
any suggestions on a good PC build ?? (an integrated workstation from a name brand is actually better for me because its easier to run through my business for tax purposes)
Please check out some of my recent art works done in photoshop and a few quick things Ive done in sketchup and rendered with the free version of twilight
any advice will be much appreciated
im a 2d artist trained in traditional painting and drawing. Prior to the pandemic I was teaching art in my hometown of Montreal.
Over the past year ive been learning digital art. The direction I want to take my career is entertainment design for movies or story boarding.
These days it seems its really essential for concept artists to have some 3d skills, having messed around with sketchup as a kid I decided to return to it and have been encouraged seeing masterworks by guys like Chris Rosewarne using it for films.
I am also learning blender as well and while I enjoy it and see its value in some areas, its so much slower to do simple things than sketchup that I dont see myself using it more than 20% of the time.
Ive settled on Twilight render pro for my sketchup renderings....because well....ive got myself hooked on the free version and I really like what Ive gotten out of it. Ultimately im a 2d artist and anything I build and render in 3d im going to paint on top of in photoshop anyways.
What has come to my attention is how under powered my PC is for rendering. Its a fairly modest gaming PC. Ive never felt the need to dump alot of money on my computer but as far as my career goes its a business expense so now im looking to invest whats right to get the good results.
I have a ryzen machine with a 2700x , rx570 and 16bg ram.
im considering a Lenovo p620 workstation with a 12 core threadripper and 64gb of ram.
The ram might seem overkill but I am also considering this PC for Vr and adobe medium. I have a long experience with traditional clay sculpting and its something id like to be able to do in VR. From what I have seen with medium users is that the program is paging like 50-60gb even on simple sculpts to their SSD while working. Alot of people have complained that 16gb is not enough for such a heavy voxel program.
any suggestions on a good PC build ?? (an integrated workstation from a name brand is actually better for me because its easier to run through my business for tax purposes)
Please check out some of my recent art works done in photoshop and a few quick things Ive done in sketchup and rendered with the free version of twilight
any advice will be much appreciated