Real-Life Communication
You are a new render wrangler in a large animation company. You've
only been at your new job for a week, but you feel like you're really starting
to catch on to things. It's exciting working for such a large company. You're
really enjoying your work and you like the people you work with.
Usually,
you work side by side with another render wrangler named Sam, who has been
with the company for almost a year. He is helping train you. He has given
you the chance to get lots of hands-on experience in your first few days.
Today,
however, Sam isn't at work. He called in sick this morning. That means you're
the only one to watch over all of the frames being processed through the render
farm.
It's a good thing you took some notes about the computer system
when Sam was explaining things to you. That's all you'll have to refer to
today in case things don't go as planned.
Sure enough, right after
your lunch break, things start going wrong. The computer has kicked some frames
out of the system, and you're not sure why. But it's up to you to determine
what the problem is and how to solve it. If you can't fix it, you must know
who can.
You grab your notes from your desk and begin reading through
them. This is what they say:
There are usually a few different reasons
why a computer will kick a frame out of its system. They are:
- One of the processors may not be working properly. Check your logbook
to see if the all the frames are being kicked out of the same processor.
- There may be too many tracks to fit into the allotted rendering time.
In other words, the animation will take longer to render than what the animator
originally thought.
- An entire file may be missing. Usually, the animator has forgotten to
include it before passing the information along to the render farm.
- There is a script error in one or more of the frames.
- One of the processors has been asked to perform a rendering job that it
isn't able to complete. This could be due to a software problem.
After reading through your list, you check your computer monitor
for error messages. On every frame that the system couldn't render, the error
message reads "setup file not found." You glance quickly back at your notes.
After reading through them one more time, you're pretty sure you know what
the problem is and what you need to do to fix it.
Which of the five
points in the list describes the problem accurately and what would you do
to fix the problem?