ikinman

This is a reboot of Ernest’s earlier thread on the merits of creating a larger organized community of renderers and modelers to work together in some capacity to tackle jobs that an individual may not have the resources to do by him or herself.

There are at least two possible scenarios as I see it: one is to start up a group of people that tackle the ‘lower’ ends of production, modeling and scene setup and such. This group would then be a service group that would be used by individual renderers as a sort of temporary back-office, and similar to the type of service that is offered by remote render farms.

The second is to start up a group of people that act together to tackle larger projects that one person may not be able to do. In that case all aspects of the production would be done by the group, which would function more as a collective.

Topics for discussion include:

1. The merits of the idea
2. Should such a group be formed to work together
3. The advantages of such a group being geographically based versus not; in other words is it better for such a group to be centered around a specific locale to work together more efficiently or is it better for such a group to be dispersed and work together online.
4. Possible ways of organizing and running such a group
5. Possible ways of managing production
6. Who is interested in participating.

These topics for discussion are based on what I was able to glean from the 80 or so comments on Ernest’s earlier thread. It is an important enough discussion to merit more focus; views on the nature of outsourcing are an important topic, but there are other threads available to discuss those implications.

-Ian