Today I'd like to see what YOUR side of the screen looks like. Take a pic of your Blender workplace and share it in the comments below. I'll kick off with a pic of BlenderNation-HQ ;-)
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About the Author
Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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This is mine. :)
Cool :) It looks like you're in the attic as well?
Yes, it's the mansadr where I live with my wife and my 2 kids. :)
My office and Render farm
Is that a jian on your back wall?
If your talking about the short sword, i have know idea, some years ago my brother in-law was really into flea-markets and gave me the sword and a set of samuri swords as payment for some help I gave him.
How did you set up that render farm
I found all the computers at the land fill, I've had as many as 24, now down to 11 I got rid of anything less the 2.4 ghz, running linux mint, using Lokirender.062. I set up a linux share folder with all my blender files and set the folder to mount on boot, also had to edit lokirender.jar file. It checks to see if blender is real by requesting blenders version data, which has changed since 2.5, it was throwing a blender executable not found error. After i fixed that, I placed lokirender.jar in the folder with all my shared files and set it to start on boot. i.e "java -jar /home/user/share/lokirender/loki.jar /usr/bin/blender" It seems to work even if the Master version is not running, just start lokirender as master, and all your nodes will come up.
Loki used to need all files packed before rendering but with the shared folder you only have to make all links absolute instead of relative.
Hi avbsoftworks, I've been searching the web trying to set up a render farm based on Cycles but I haven't been able to do it. Is there a chance you could tell us how to do that? Thank you very much...
Sorry I haven't used Cycles yet and It's my understanding that cycles doesn't support animation just yet, because of the type of renderer it is how do you tell it that's good enough and to move on to the next frame, it's my understanding that it just keeps going forever till you tell it good enough.
Also if you look at the desk you will not see a computer any where, I built it into the desk. Everthing is mounted to the underside and the dvd is mounted just under the top and to the right of the left leg.
I am trying to build a render farm for luxrender and was wondering if you knew how to go about that
That chair looks painful for the buttocks.
Best ideas come by uncomfortableness. :)
I appeal on the fourth amendment which states that I am not obliged to incriminate myself.
But here you are *allowed* to do so.
I thought that's the fifth.
It is the 5th. The 4th is Search and Seizure
... and this is my place...
Wow! I can't help thinking of a small child rocking that tower shelf with the CRT on it!! EEP!!!!
The place for the tower is behind that wall, so the tower is safe.
nice to see the toilet paper over the printer...
lol
OooOops!! That is not what looks like. That is cleaning paper for kitchen. It's handy I'm eating pizza, hamburger, chips, coke, etc...
Now that's what I call a computer tower :P
My humble Blender station :)
Dude, you look like a financial trader ;-)
Woah... you need to run the matrix code emulator on those! :-)
No matrix code emulator yet, but perhaps an annotated desktop shot with my regular activities layed out will do ;)
Codegasm!
You should look into the "Son of Obsidian" syntax color scheme though (http://studiostyl.es/schemes/son-of-obsidian). I use to use colors similar to yours (high contrast greens on black) but after viewing code with Obsidian i can't go back. I've copied the scheme to Notepad++ and MonoDev so all my work looks the same.
yay A fellow system administrator! ;o
+1 Vim
:D
Me gusta.
Here is mine, from Head-Quarters of Opencurso and blender.cl (in Chile)
+1 for having BlenderNation on your screen!
what's that thing hanging down in the center of the room?
I believe those are punishment hangers for 3dsmax enthusiasts ;)
... an one more :)
Ah, I spy BlenderNation on your screen. +1!
Do I distinquish a Microsoft Kinect sensor ?
Correct :) We use it for gesture recognition.
With Blender? What kind of projects do you do?
This
one is for HMM-based gesture interface (using PCL). Blender is mainly
used for 3D modelling and stereoscopic rendering, but we played a bit with BGE visualization. A
bit unstable, though :'(
I tried to use it for kangoroo hopping, but it does not work. The SDK does work. I'll try again in july 2012.
http://dm.tzi.de/bloop/
Holy cow! Bloop looks awesome! I'll take a better look at that asap :)
Holly Shit !!!
you are master teckie
respect ;-)
I thought about straightening up, but decide to leave it in it's natural state.
My room isnt really this dark it's just my rubbish camera ;)
My workstation for the Mass Manipulation of Meshes. *laughs diabolically
>:D
Nice board on the left. I can see you approach stuff methodically.
best things in life: my pc and a cup of noodles
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15009961/DSCI0001.JPG
Is that an integrated UPS in that computer?
no it's an antec high current gamer 900w
What mouse are you using?
roccat kova +
And this is mine. I have to cope with just one monitor :) ( But I have some compensation on my desk to achieve the double look otherwise ;) )
tablet damn forgot to put it on my desk
The wine glass is a nice touch too :)
Mine here.
Star wars. :)
I like the 'upside down tablet PC as an extra screen'. Neat idea!
Our studio, my seat.
Woah, a fatscreen, It was a while since I last saw one.
Yes, it is old. :) But I have a big desk and why not use a bonus screen if it works just well. Apple monitors are quite expensive, but CRT have a good color too.
I miss the radiation of CRT monitors in the morning. Ahh, good old times...
and yepp, i did clean up ;)
Don't laugh ! I do know it's time I definitely bought a real computer... Anyway i've done a lot with this cheap laptop.
It's also time you bought a desk ;-)
HAHA working on the floor is hard ;)
i love working on the floor in my bed, i have the comp on my belly, rockin it otter style
floor or in my bed*
I have that exact same tablet, and I used to have the same laptop (now I have a Toshiba Satellite L555 instead)!
Hey it's still working! I have a P3 thinkpad running puppy linux. It just can't handle Blender.
I have the same configuration. But since i'm now working i'll buy a very good computer.
Here's Drentsoft HQ. The fifth monitor (the one with Blender on it) is running on another PC behind the chair... not the one you can see though :S @Alex Roijers is that an all-RED Coolermaster HAF 922!?
jepp
Wow!
Thanks? lol
Darn. I was going to post but a) my 'den' is really messy at the moment. And b) you guys all have waaaay cooler setups than mine! :)
Oh ok, now I want to join in. Here's mine.
Important items include of course the desktop, the laptop, and the Roborovski hamster who lives in box in the corner. :)
Here's my current workspace at our CG Cookie headquarters :) It's far cleaner than usual... I only count one coffee mug!
Yeah right, you just whipped up a render of a workspace, didn't you?
By the way, it looks like our setups are identical - iMac 27" and 24" Dell LCD? I have my Dell hidden under my desk - so much screen space became too much for me ;-)
That's exactly right! 24" Ultrasharp?
Yep!
Best monitor I've ever gotten. Aside from my iMac :)
It's somehow appropriate that CG Cookie uses a butchers block surface as a desk.
Now you need to get a bakers rack to set your render farm on.
Oh that's such a great idea!
Well, here are some older shots of my past offices. Now I use a laptop on the kitchen table until I manage to glean some office space. I have 5 kids and a wife eating into the space. :)
Old house, 8 years ago:
http://statikonline.com/Slides/Old_Office.jpg
New house, 5 years ago:
http://statikonline.com/Slides/IMAG0002.JPG
Do you keep the sword for those nasty knots that pup up?
Love the random katana.
My current private workspace at home.
Here's my office. I used Hugin to stitch some camera phone shots.
No office is complete without post-it note Mario.
The suànpán is for quick math when animating. I use the drawing board for storyboarding. You can see our green screen peeking out from beyond the door.
The other desk is where AmyJo works (also Blender).
I like it very much. What's the name of studio, or you work as freelancer?
Ott Planetarium -- we've been using Blender to make planetarium shows since 2006.
ottplanetarium.org
We've reported about the Ott Planetarium a number of times, they make (and share!) some pretty cool stuff.
http://www.blendernation.com/?s=planetarium&submit=Search
This is my little corner of Blender heaven...
This is where I live :)
Sharon S
this is also my 2D animation desk.
mine
Wauw! Nice gear in here!
I guess I'll post mine too:
If you skip the Dutch it's understandable.
http://nl.hardware.info/usersystemen/9926/cello#tab:specificaties-beschrijving
It's brand new. Bought the components in july so the specs are pretty awesome!
Hexacore (x6) 1090T combined with a XFX HD 6870 for nice graphics.
Shame OpenCL/Cycles doesn't work yet on AMD cards. :(
Also have problems with a sennheiser's wires? =)
Yeah I had to replace them twice...
Sennheiser got them to me both times for free! Great service, but a shame of the bad quality.
A month ago a first crack appeard in my third pair of wires but I fixed it with tubing and tie-wraps. :3
I have attached springs from a ballpoint pen to my eH-150 after soldering the wires. Now I have a HD280 =)
+1 for hoping OpenCL Cycles gets released relatively soon.
Here's our little animation workshop
You give Blender workshops?
look like internet cafe:)
My Setup
blah, that looks horrible. The yuck lights and a side tilting chair. You need to do something about that. Maybe it's time to move out of the old kitchen to somewhere else?
I really dont care what you think. How bout if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all.
I've removed his comment.
Thank You
Man that pic puts back in time of my college days!
I can see you're ready for Xmas :)
I sure am
I'll just say good use of space.
All those crazy blender domains !
Good idea !
Mine.
Have to keep it open so the CPU-GPU stay cool.
Global Illumination - Great!
This is my workplace in our stone workshop office.
Wow, that's an impressive model! What are you working on?
It's a burial place of president of Abkhazia, he recently died =)
Your station looks freakin awesome. Great model.
Thank you :)
System specs are 1090T, 16GB RAM, GTX560 (bought just for Cycles) + HD6950 disabled now, cos i'm trying to launch both Nvidia and ATI cards under Gentoo for using power of 6 monitor outputs on ATI and rendering on Nvidia at same time.
Everybody vote for OpenCL for Cycles :3
I see you got the same CPU as me, but I wonder if people are thinking to get the new series (am3+): the FX 8250 or something like that...
I will buy FX-8120 for a partner whom I arranged to work together next week =)
Well heres my setup.............
Is that a 3D mouse?
My messy corner of my room. Just the open laptop is mine. Home-made cooling fan, and my Waccom Tablet.
He, he... nice idea! Here is my place and machine.
i love the blender sticker.
A lot of nice setups here. Here's mine :)
Attention every one with two monitors and fancy rigs!
I. Hate. You. :(
So jealous.
Nice to meet you guys here! Here is mine. I'm doing graphics most of my time so my wish list is: Wacom > spare time > 2nd monitor > render farm.
Some really great setups here. Here's mine:
Blender, MyPaint, and Fedora 16! Gotta love Open Source software!
Now that winter has set in I've moved my Blender rig right next to fireplace. My Wacom table is at work - I don't do *much* Blending there.
That makes me want a mug of Hot Chocolate.
Aren't you afraid that you would attract unwanted peepers outside looking through the window to see your superb Blender work?
There is nothing but woods out there. But I welcome all those who care to take a peep at the recent Blends. There is plenty of hot chocolate and tea during the long blending hours.
Make some intensive renderings are proved palm warming solution
Here is my blender/general work and art station. Someday I hope to replace the laptop with a nice and powerful PC but for now it's only a dream.
here's my work place
PS: crappy 2m camera :(
My command center
Here is my workspace. It is still friday here. (barely) ;)
Wow, so many of these setups are all neat and clean.... geez I feel like a slob now.
Thanks for sharing everybody. Its given me plenty of ideas on how to improve my setup.
Here is my place, Nothing fancy but it get the job done. Wish I to had double screens, looks like such a luxury. :)
I once had three screens, but went back to just one, you can really only work on one at a time, so I went with a large 26" samsung and learnd how to switch active apps quickly.
por mucho tiempo trabaje tirado en el suelo de mi departamento pero ahora las cosas estan un poquito mejor!
In English please!
"For a long time, I worked lying on the floor of my department (probably means apartment), but now things are a little better."
Translation based on my two years living in El Salvadore, but I'm not completely fluent in Spanish.
Here is my small blender experimental studio. ;-)
Nice, you have my same mouse! You can see it in my pics above.
You're right! Very nice setup too!
Love your pen tablet! Cintiq?
This is my simple work station home :)
Here's my office
This is mine.
This is my workstation
Here's my "office"..
Nothing too fancy about it. Most important things are clean working space and a good chair!
Two 24" monitors are nice, but i think more than that isn't really necessary..
Here's my commanding station...
i feel at home and not alone watchin' how messy your places are!
Go silicon jungles!
My Setup where I live :´)
Ups!
my Blender and Gaming place
My Blender-station, not great is a pentium 4 1gb ram, but 1gb video card nvidia gt 9500, here is were i use cycles really.
Here is my workspace :)
Here is my hobby room. Few things old, few things new. The PC is an i7 with 16Gig of ram and an LG 27" monitor. I have a WACOM intuos4 and a lot of old VHS tapes. Yes, the PC plays thru the Pioneer speakers holding up the desk. Can'r wait to show my wife what others have just to convince her I'm not over the top with my toys.
I like the back scratcher.
How fun! It's always cool to see what exists on the "other side." I happen to be doing my best to take advantage of blender's ability to fill my 24" crt with lovely color and my 7.1 surround sound with 8 channels of audio. I use a sidewinder strategic commander (very old m$ rts game controller) and it makes speed modeling very easy. I have yet to switch to my G13 gamepad which I got after I used up all the buttons on my G15. The midi keyboard and assignable foot controller are for music and sound effects.
I rarely eat food at my computer. This gives me at least 1 hour a day when I'm not at it =)
Here's my Blender-station (and Xbox/Movie/TV watching station)
Here's my private workspace at home, by the way the book underneath the monitor belongs to my Ex-3D package Autodesk Maya :)
Here is my workspace :)
Lovely setups i'm very shame of showing mine here in Mexico the situations sometimes its a bit difficult XD
I know, way to come late to the party- but here it is. Here's where I'll stay awake working, sometimes until 3 AM.
I've been experimenting with minimalism. This is as bare-boards as I can get with this setup. Good posture is definitely required :-)
Here's mine,
I want a setup like that.
Monitor 1: The Terminal
Monitor 2: The mainMonitor 3: Rendering