Hospital Ward Trolley Animation

[DanMarionette]

Hi Guys,

I have just finished my latest animation with V-Ray for Blender and I am very proud with the result.
Even though I didn't post any questions on the forum for this project I still am very thankful for everyone's previous help ^_^

https://youtu.be/uzegtRas_Dw

Thanks
Dan

[gimu]

wow, this is nice danmarionette, i love it, cinematics and also animation, but i think there is something odd when object jointed together.
anyway, how long it took to render them all?

[kontrolermpl]

Nice job, I like this animation. I'm interesting about render time, and value and size of frames. Of course please write something about hardware to compare render time.

[DanMarionette]

Gimu - Thank you for kind words. I agree with you on the joint shots, they turned out to be my least favourite bit. As these things go though, its the first thing my boss mentioned as being one of his favourite bits! What do you think is the issue?

Kontrolermpl - Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

Everything was rendered in 1920 x 1080. It's the first time I've rendered in FHD. In the past I've had to render 720 due to time. This time however I decided to use RenderStreet which has been a fantastic service.

Render Times
On my PC (i7 5820k overclocked to 4.1GHz, 16GB, V-Ray 3.3) render times varied between 30 seconds to about 12 minutes a frame. Render times increased as the animation progressed as there is more to render. The toughest thing to render were the translucent plastic for the cereal tubs and the canisters inside the trolley. It's actually why the shot of all the drawers closing in the trolley at the end is from above. It was originally more from the side, but i needed to obscure the cereal tubs to improve render time

On RenderStreet it cost around $900 to render it all with some tests and one re-render. That works out at just over 210 hours of there server time. They delivered it much quicker though as I started with their service of 10 concurrent servers then upgraded to 20 in the last 24 hours to get it finished! I think RenderStreet are using Dual Xeon E5 on their servers which has a total of 32 threads.

It was actually animated and rendered in about 5 days. I had spent about two weeks before modelling the trolley. I wish I'd spent longer on some of it, but we were doing it for a trade show so a very definite deadline!

[andybot_cg]

Very nice and clean, great work! I can definitely see some parts of the animation didn't get as much time as others. I know how that goes working on a deadline Clever to obscure the translucent trays to speed up time, nice one! I actually liked that overhead composition.

[rikou]

woooh ! really nice and clean.
Congrats !

[DanMarionette]

Very nice and clean, great work! I can definitely see some parts of the animation didn't get as much time as others. I know how that goes working on a deadline Clever to obscure the translucent trays to speed up time, nice one! I actually liked that overhead composition.

Thanks for the input. Yes, definitely has to cut some things short. I found that after I had modelled the trolley that it looked great,but when I broke it apart again for the early shots of the animation I found it was hard to make it look good visually.
What shots to you look weaker? Have you got any suggestions? I'm unlikely to update this one, but the feedback will help for the next I'm sure!

[andybot_cg]

What shots to you look weaker? Have you got any suggestions? I'm unlikely to update this one, but the feedback will help for the next I'm sure!

It looked like you just stuck some things together later in the video - like the casters, whereas earlier in the video you had screws and such as part of the assembly. With that earlier detail, I would have expected to see a mounting plate or some bolt for the caster to attach to. Really minor stuff, it's just what caught my attention with a critical eye. Overall though, like I said, excellent job!

[DanMarionette]

Yes, that is something that bothered me too. I was running out of time, but you are right, it feels like it's just being sat on top. I wish I'd had them come together before it settled on the ground with at least some sort of suggestion of a solid connection.
I appreciate your feedback. Thank you.

[PablonchoWorks]

Nice and clean!
Very well.