Budget Research: Computer Equipment

Now a look at the equipment we'll be needing in the studio for the staff!

Probably the most important equipment, the animation work stations. These computers are high specced as they will be used not only for the 3D animation and modelling, but also for rendering.

Main Specs:

3.1Ghz Quad Core Intel i7

16 Gb Memory

2 Gb Nvidia GPU

2x 2 TB HDDs (RAID 0)

22" Widescreen 1920 x 1080 Monitor

Comes to £1,419.00 inc VAT from http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk.

I'll need 14 of these machines in total, 4 for animators, 4 for the modellers, 1 for the lighting / camera, 1 for Cloth / Hair, 1 each for the lead artist and animator, and 1 each for the editor and compositor.

The rest of the machines, which will only be using photoshop and word will be lower spec to save money:

Specs:

3.1Ghz Quad Core Intel i5

4 Gb Memory

512 Mb Nvidia GPU

2x 1 TB HDD (RAID 0)

22" Wdescreen 1920 x 1080 Monitor

Comes to exactly £700 including VAT, again from http:www.pcspecialist.co.uk.

I'll need 5 of these, for the admin folk (4), and the sound editor (1).

So that's 19 computers... One for each of the staff who will need one, the software needed for each will go ontop of that.

I'm having some trouble finding the price of software at the moment, I know that you can buy a license for a business that allows you to install software on all of your machines. But it's impossible to find an actual price! I'll have to com back to this, or buy the software for each individually.

On top of that, I need to head over to staples.co.uk or something and find a bunch of desks and chairs, and some stationary equipment.