Night animation how to ?

[NooM]

Our next project will be a night animation. Anybody has some experience with it?
The big challenge will be the lightning I think. I read in the manual that mental ray has a night shader. This will not work with vray I think. Can someone give me some tips our workarounds....

Thanks a lot
NooM

[dbuchhofer]

Its mostly just keeping the number of lights down where possible, as they play a much higher role in the rendering, since night shots require many more lights.

begin with a skylight of a dark 'nighttime' blue/purple fill light, and tint all of your building lights more towards a warm yellow.. use attenuations, use small shadow maps where shadow detail isn't important.. (in a night scene, thats many of the lights.. as they're more for accenting)

its mostly just 'feel', so try and keep your rendertimes low, as it takes a lot of tweaking the first couple times to get an eye for the lighting colors and values.

theres no magic solution.. good luck

[NooM]

Thanks for your input Will visit next week the place where the animation will be. Take some pictures day and night, so I can see if it comes close to gods rendering Is the world nice rendered or what
Thx for your input
NooM

[RErender]

Thanks for your input Will visit next week the place where the animation will be. Take some pictures day and night, so I can see if it comes close to gods rendering Is the world nice rendered or what
Thx for your input
NooM

Yes, hard to beat the "G-Ray" it's the ifinite bounces and sub divs , I think...

[olitech]

...another quick tip:
underlight buildings with vray lights to simulate street glow...works especially well on city blocks etc..it also gives you silhouetting at the building tops against 'twilight' skies etc....a fast 'no-tech' effect

G-ray eh?....interesting concept

[Da_elf]

Yes, hard to beat the "G-Ray" it's the ifinite bounces and sub divs , I think...

i tend to wonder what kinda GI methods being used. his AA engine is awsome as well

[NooM]

hehe yes, but it's funny, sometimes after a long day when I'm on the way home and very tired I am looking to people for example at mainstation and was saying to myself, man/girl your are bad animated or woowwwhh nice motion blur on the cars..or come on give a little bit more reflection on the screen..and so on...LOL

Are I'm alone so crazy, or do you have same experience

NooM

[Daniele_ve]

NooM, you're not alone!!!...

[kpavlov]

It happend to me while I played famoust Russian game Tetris few weeks. I was at the Jedi level few last days, but I quit the game one day.
The reason is while I was watching news I started to think how I could easily place one L block on the right shoulder of speaker or however you call lady who's reading the news.

[Da_elf]

ok how many of you have say at a table with a glass of wine and caught yourself staring at the caustics wishing yours looked that good

[Dschaga]

For nightrenderings try one of these hdrs ..they are pretty good in tinting your rendering the right way.
http://hdri.3dweave.com/library/freak.php

[NooM]

Wow thanks for that Dschaga