Hi, I am a 3D artist and I am getting into VFX (mostly sims like fire, fluid, sand, explosions, etc). The problem is, I currently have an iMac late 2015 model with the lowest specs: . I understand that sidefx.com says that I need at least 8 RAM but that 64 is recommended. I bought this one course about doing fluid sims, fire etc, and I can't even cache a pretty low res simulation or fire because it keeps freezing up my computer after about the 60th frame (I can't hardly do anything during the caching either). Do I need more RAM, faster processor, or a better GPU or a combination of them all? Also, I do a lot of rendering in Blender and that is pretty slow too. So, does anyone know what would be the best move for me (buying an iMac with more RAM, a Mac Pro, or what). All help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Benjamin