animation quality

[alexworx]

I am trying to create a very basic animation through an interior space, just a camera moving. I followed the "typical" setup, using IM and LC. but the quality is just not there. What would be causing the lack of quality?

Thanks, guys.

Alex

[particlerealities]

For what it's worth, I downloaded the file to my desktop and it looked pretty nice to me. Previewing it directly from the Dropbox page, it looked really bad - way too much compression, but that's nothing you can control - you'd be better served by posting the video to YouTube as 'Unlisted', then sharing a link with the client. When you say the 'quality is just not there', are you referring to the lighting quality?

[Neilg]

uh you have 'show samples' turned on in the IR map

[particlerealities]

uh you have 'show samples' turned on in the IR map

LOL - I didn't study the image closely enough - I thought that was some kind of mosaic looking wallpaper.

[sheehan_partners_nm]

I never got lucky with animations using IM+LC. They will cause flickering if you are not good enough. Use brute force, slower but safe.

[Fat Tony]

Hey Alex,
There is no need in the latest build to go into IM, brute force will solve most of your issues with flickering and splotches etc.

Make BF + LC setup. In LC put 3000 subdivs and retrace to 8, follow camera path and set up mode to flythrough. That should be it, nice smooth clean anim.

let me know

[alexworx]

Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am trying BF + LC now. Problem is frames are taking 30 min! way to too long. Do you think if I changed from Bucket to Progressive that would work?

[alexworx]

Well I have spent a good portion of today working on this and I think I am more confused than ever . I have enclosed my settings and a very short animation) as you can see its much better but its still a bit noisy and flickering esp near the lights over the bar. Good news is the frames are not taking a crazy amount of time ( roughly about 14min a frame ).
Not sure what settings to change to clean it up. I am also using the denoiser with this.

Thanks
Alex

[Neilg]

Max subdivisions on 100 is from some very old methods, bring it down to 4 or 6 and raise the minimum shading rate to remove noise.
Noise threshold is weird too, leave that on default.

[vlado]

Just revert everything to defaults, set the LC subdivs to 3000 and retrace to 8. Nothing else. There is no need for world-size light cache samples and fly-through mode; in fact this will probably make you scene render slower. Interpolation samples at 40 is way too high and will slow down rendering considerably.

All in all, a very educational example of why we should remove these options from the UI completely

Best regards,
Vlado

[hoppergrass]

I am all for removing (or hiding) legacy stuff that is no longer relevant to today's workflows. Bit of spring cleaning is in order

[jacksc02]

Alexworx - If you want to send me your files I will render it out for you.
My farm is free at the moment

[jackieteh]

Just revert everything to defaults, set the LC subdivs to 3000 and retrace to 8. Nothing else. There is no need for world-size light cache samples and fly-through mode; in fact this will probably make you scene render slower. Interpolation samples at 40 is way too high and will slow down rendering considerably.

All in all, a very educational example of why we should remove these options from the UI completely

Best regards,
Vlado

Hi Vlado, i agree with you, remove it, thank you.

[alexworx]

Hi Guys,

Sorry, it been a bit crazy work schedule just getting back to you on this.Thanks so much for the tips. It defiantly helped. Got the frames down to a manageable 6-7 min per frame.Thanks Chris for the offer I really appreciate that, sorry I didn't see it till just now.
Here is the updated animation file still not perfect but much better then before.