The same farmer, four times

One brief: rebuild a rigged low-poly farmer from a reference model, unattended, in headless Blender. Four runs, all inside about twenty-five minutes.

One came back with 720 triangles, 15 bones and three animations, in 198 KB. Another with 3,224 triangles, a weapon bone and six animations, in 4.7 MB. A third with seven clips, including one for gathering. The fourth, which the folder does not label, was close to the reference in triangle count.

Every one of them rendered its own check sheet. Every one was marked QA OK.

They are not the same model. A factor of twenty-four separates the smallest file from the largest. “OK” meant the thing each had decided to build was built. Nobody had said which farmer was wanted.

A pass tells you the work met its own idea of the brief. Choosing between ideas is still somebody’s job.