Hi, I'm Alexander.

I built Smoozy because my not so powerful computer couldn't handle complex scenes that I didn't want to simplify — yeah, overnight renders just to wake up and realize that you only disabled that shrinkwrap mesh in the viewport. Render farms were a solution, and I did use them occasionally, but didn't always have the budget. Surprisingly, a solution came from one of an artist's greatest fears — AI. The GPU market has been flooded with Nvidia chips, which made them incredibly cheap — as low as $0.25 per hour for an RTX 3090 or $0.45 for a 4090. While the intent behind building all those data centers was model training, we as 3D artists can use the same hardware to do our own thing.