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Myths' Valley

Tripothon S1 · Behind the scenes

Thirty thousand credits to raise a valley

Every villager, house and rig in the valley went through Tripo. This is the account statement, Sep 20 to Oct 16, 2026.

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The statement

Credits received
100,410
Credits used
30,060
Operations on Tripo
671
Days with usage
16

671 operations in Tripo Studio

Where the credits went

Generating and retopologizing took 82% of the total. The rig, which brings the villagers to life, cost 20 credits per character.

Credits by operation

  • Text → model 13,580
  • Retopology 11,195
  • Image → model 2,870
  • Rig 1,620
  • Textures 710
  • Other 85
246 models generated from text
281 retopologies
82 rigs for animation
35 models from images

Credits per day · Sep 20 to Oct 16, 2026

Two sprints and one decisive day

On Oct 5, the day the project was submitted, 14,605 credits went into 337 operations, almost half of everything.
Credits used per day
Sep 2020
Sep 210
Sep 220
Sep 23150
Sep 24155
Sep 250
Sep 266,925
Sep 271,035
Sep 28665
Sep 290
Sep 300
Oct 10
Oct 255
Oct 31,920
Oct 4220
Oct 514,605
Oct 6190
Oct 70
Oct 80
Oct 90
Oct 100
Oct 1130
Oct 123,200
Oct 13690
Oct 140
Oct 15100
Oct 16100
  1. Sep 26 The first batch 6,925 credits: 75 models generated from text and 68 retopologies.
  2. Oct 5 Project submission 14,605 credits: 131 models, 164 retopologies and 42 rigs.
  3. Oct 12 After Demo Day 3,200 credits: 22 models from images and 22 textures.

Average cost per character

The recipe for a villager

The most common path from text to a character ready to animate, the same one Pedro took.
  1. 1 Text to modelBase generation · HD geometry · HD texture · PBR materials 55
  2. 2 RetopologySmart Low Poly · Quad mesh · Base remesh 40
  3. 3 RigAuto skeleton 20
  4. Per villager 115 credits
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Pedro · 14,400 triangles

Credits per hour · Brasília time

A valley made before dawn

55% of the credits were spent between 4 and 6 a.m., almost all of it on the night before submission.
Credits used per hour of the day
0h95
1h320
2h480
3h390
4h8,265
5h8,275
6h465
7h0
8h285
9h190
10h145
11h155
12h4,000
13h0
14h150
15h0
16h3,755
17h20
18h765
19h95
20h415
21h985
22h20
23h790

Top-ups to the account

The allowance outgrew the work

100,410 credits came in and the valley used 30,060. About 70,000 went unused.
Back to Tripothon
DateCredits
Sep 20 · 20:58200
Sep 23 · 20:4525,000
Oct 1 · 23:52200
Oct 5 · 00:5625,000
Oct 10 · 06:4625,000
Oct 10 · 08:3825,000
Oct 11 · 23:4610
Total received100,410

Source: the account's transaction statement in Tripo Studio, in Brasília time.