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I’ve been focusing on tablets rather than phones, as I totally agree that phones might be a “step too far”.
I’m probably using the phrase “low resolution” poorly; on my iMac, I never render anything less that’s 4096 x 3072 which, while small for a poster-sized print, is large enough for many comic images. On my iPad Pro, I’d be happy with lower resolution images to either use as a reference to either paint over or enhance with postwork, or to use as a panel in a webcomic; just rendering to the screen would give me a snapshot that’s 2732-by-2048, more than large enough for medium-to-high res panel in a webcomic. If could double that (or even 1.5x times) as a render, that would be awesome.
Regarding phones replacing computers, I’m both agreeing and disagreeing; I agree 100% that they will never totally replace computers (they can’t; at the very least, professionals need them to make most of the content for the phones, and that’s probably never going to change) but at the same time, for a subset of the population, phones have already replaced computers. I actually know people who use their phones for everything and don’t even own a computer, nor feel the need for one (barbarians!).
— Walt Sterdan
Smart phones have already replaced computers as consumption devices due to their mobile nature and relative low cost.
As production devices they are not even close however
and frankly not intended to be.
They are designed to be Disposable entertainment devices
that are replaced every two years on average and it has worked.
The company that ,in early 1990's, was considered Doomed by many,
is now more valuable than the pseudo sovereign nation Exxon Mobile.
Due to its IPhone.
Sure some types of simple" production" are possible on smartphones, tablets.
Amature novelists in japan have authored novels on their Iphones.
But for something serious Like Piece of legislation in Parliament
or a screenplay for $200 million Dollar film ,
Serious professionals are sitting in front of REAL computers to accomplish these tasks
On the matter of a "Daz Studio App" sure have at it.
let the consumers play in some cute little DS widget on their favorite Smart device on the subway etc.
While serious producers Like Zev0 continue to perform real work
on a proper PC.....Tools matter.
I think the underlying concern here is that as demand for personal computers declines (due to the influence of phones and tablets) so will research and innovations in this area as well as pricing of hardware will also stagnate or even skyrocket. PC's wil be relegated to a niche product and like so will become very costly.
Agreed, tools matter, as does talent. A simple "production" like Unsane still mananged to rake in over ten million + on a budget of 1.5 million though it was shot on iPhone 7s (a profit of almost ten million dollars) while John Carter cost over 300 million to make and grossed almost 20 million less than it cost. Simply having really, really good equipment and tools is never enough on its own. Every piece of "real work" done in the film industry that flopped was done on serious equipment using serious tools... and every movie that used serious equipment and tools that lost money was beat out by at least one movie that used an iPhone for filming.
While you've mentioned creating your own models when needed, you still base your work on store-bought DAZ characters, putting you right smack in the same boat with the rest of us consumers.
Again, I'm not advocating throwing out computers in favour of tablets (and even less so for phones). I don't think we'll ever relegate PCs to a niche product because no matter how good tablets get, actual computers will always be very, very much better for production and they evolve just as fast -- or faster -- than their little siblings.
I'd be more than happy to play with my "cute little DS widget" on my tablet, probably using some of Zev0s utilities while I do so.
-- Walt Sterdan
With recent development of tera hertz processors, it would be probably possible in the couple of years,
if such processors will have similar instructions set to Intel/AMD ones, or provide other means
to develop software for them. Such processors could be 100 times faster, than available nowadays
and will be developed for mobile devices as well.
I pointed out a cloud-based "gaming PC"-equivalent system that you can run through a phone/tablet, and that got shot down here as pointless.
I own two smart phones and a tablet
I "consumed "over 26 books last year on my tablet
and filmed my son's recent swearing in ceremony as city Police Officer
on a Samsung Galaxy in HD
they are all great tools for what they do at this point in their development
However my store bought Genesis figures and their morphs ,were developed by DAZ inc, on a Real computer.
My Custom clothing is made in Maxon Cinema4D that only runs on a Real computer
My animation work is created in Iclone 6.5 ,Daz studio 4.8 and Natural Motions Endorphin that only runs on a Real computer.
My animation work is rendered in Maxon C4D that only runs on a Real computer
My Uncompressed targas are comped color graded and have VFX applied in Adobe After effects CS and Autodesk combustion that only runs on a Real computer
My final Post produced shots are being edited in Apple final cut pro
that only runs on a Real computer.
..tools matter.
Tablet and phones are merely highly miniaturized purpose built computers.
Eventually computers that handle large scale industrial tasks like
.
Managing the Data sets of the New York stock Exchange or the rendering of 4/8k video will become much smaller like phones and tablets.
when that happens no one will miss our bulky towers and laptops
First off, congratulations on your son's graduation, that's fantastic! You must be a very proud father -- I can't think of anything that would make a parent prouder than raising a child who chooses to spend their life helping make the world a better place. Again, my congratulations to the both of you.
I agree, as always, that better tools help make better end products, absolutely no question there, no disagreement.
I think it's easy for us to lose track of where some of the progress is being made while we've got our noses buried in our own work. There's nothing on an iPad, for example, that matches After Effects, but at the same time I know that professional journalists are using their iPhones for filming and iPad software like LumaFusion to edit their video (it allows multiple tracks on the timeline for graphics, titles stills and video, three audio tracks to mix vocal, sounds effects and music (all editable and separate) as well as Chroma key (for green/blue screen work), advanced audio editing and effects, editable titles that can include shapes, and much more, for under $30. It's not After Effects, but it's closer to a professional piece of video editing and effects software than, say, iMovie.
In the early 1980s I was in a similar situation working near the North Magnetic Pole -- I carried an enlarger and mini-darkroom with me and while stationed there took photos, developed the film and printed them. It wasn't a "professional" lab but it was the only one for a very, very long distance and, for the most part, my prints were as good as any lab did.
I don't think we will ever not have our bulky towers and laptops, they're not going anywhere. Right now the system you're using is producing professional results that would have required a dedicated 3D workstation -- like an Silicon Graphics Indigo -- back in the early 1990s, and tweny years from now your desktop unit will probably be doing work that requires a render farm now.
I bought my first personal computer in 1981 and wrote my first 3D graphic program in 1982 using Paul Lutus's GraFORTH language -- the computer display was 192 x 140 pixels with less than 16 colours; a smartwatch now has 312 x 390 pixels with millions of colours, more memory and a much, much faster processor (not to mention a gazillion other goodies, like more RAM and storage space)... and no, I don't want to run DAZ Studio on one.
In summary, I would love to have a stripped-down DAZ Studio on my iPad -- they built a working version six years ago -- but I assume that the demand for such a program is far too low for it to ever be a DAZ priority, so I'm not holding my breath. It's always possible that a fellow user will take on the project developing something in Unity, but for now, it's back to business as usual.
-- Walt Sterdan