Animation work

[jonasa]

Here's a clip from our latest animation.

1 minute animation (10 Mb)

Be patient - right click to rewind

All together we rendered about 3 minutes of animation for a marketing DVD. Initially we used a lot of glossy reflections, but had to cut it down since I had a lot of trouble getting rid of the noise while maintaining fast rendertimes.

Max6 - Vray v1.46.10-12

C&C welcome

[PixelJockey]

Very nice. How long did this project take? Modeling to compositing that is. Looks like a lot of work.

[jonasa]

hmm, this was a rather tough one with quite a bit of toing and froing - but my estimate is approx 1 month solid.

[room217]

Really smooth, nice Job!

[tdarcy]

Excellent,
Very impressive, just wondering how many people worked on it or were you on your own.

Cheers,
TD

[jonasa]

Excellent,
Very impressive, just wondering how many people worked on it or were you on your own.

Most of the jobs in our company is teamwork - my role has been taking it from model phase to production renderings.

Also a lot of work on this job went on customizing furniture and color for the interiors - but hopefully we can re-use some of this stuff.

[jacksc02]

Nice work, very smooth, and great interior lighting.

Did you use light cache?
I noticed that there was some interlacing, did you do the interlacing in post or is it output from VRay?

Keep up the great work!

[jonasa]

Light cache: Yes, we did use light cache combined with irradiance map.

Initially we were using QMC for the aa, but couldnt get rid of noise within decent rendertimes - we need to do some more research on that matter - so ended up using Adaptive (0/2) and a Catmul-Rom aa-filter.

The original render is 720x576 @ 1.422 pixel aspect (for wide screen DVD) - and yes everything was rendered out interlaced - don't know if you can apply interlacing properly in post.

The reason there are still interlacing noticeable in the animation posted, is that I havent found a good de-interlacing filter - Premiere's certainly doesnt give you great results.

Average render times of the original frames was about 6-10 mins on dual Xeon 3Ghz's.