very short animation (test)

[metroberlin]

a short testanimation for an upcoming project. nothing special, but i want to play with self illumination material, glossy reflection and antisotropic in an animation. it´s a quicktime wit mpeg4 and not very small (didn´t have another codec). i hope you don´t mind. and yes...it´s a little dark, i know

rolling ball

[RErender]

That's pretty cool, nice concept.

btw If Arnold wins I hear we're going to change the state to "Culifornia" so everyone pronounces it "right".

[metroberlin]

asta la vista, baby

[manray]

O L E!

i have no words

regards

[bakbek]

Is the sound realy the ball on the floor ??? made with some plug-in or somthing... or is a seperate recording combined later ???

i'm really intersted in adding sound to my work but don't know how.

About the animation... i like it very much ( the grid box is the coolest ). keep up the good work.

Regards
Bakbek.

[DaForce]

what are the render time of that animation, and what are your machine specs?

im trying to do a render with glossies, and displacement and its pretty slow for me.....6mins a frame, on a AMD 2700+ 1GB ram. im trying to work out where im going wrong, maybe you could share some wise advice ?

thanks

[metroberlin]

rendertimes about 5 min on a dual mp 2400+ .

the sound was mixed with the animation in a cheap and easy video programm. was just a first test, doesn´t fit very well with the animation now.

[DaForce]

5mins per frame right? or 5mins total?

5mins total is pretty quick.
What method did you use for the IR map?

[metroberlin]

waht ? no 5min per frame. and i think even that´s pretty fast.

[DaForce]

ahhh ok cool, well that seems ok then heheeh

what IR method did you use, incremental? how did you set it up. I really need to learn that sorta stuff a tad better.

Thanks for any info you can give me.

[MarioRothenbuehler]

oohhh yeah i like this kind of animations....

/mario'

[metroberlin]

no, because of the changing light and the moving object you MUST just single frame. add incremental is just usefeull for cam-animation WITHOUT moving objects or changing lights. i used high animation setings and high subd. for glossy reflection. without that you can cut down rendertimes, but 5min/frame ist quit okay.

[DaForce]

ahhh ok, thanks for the info. very helpfull.

[GoncaloP]

Very nice animation! I love it

[guardian256]

very cool.....nice one