Your rendersize??

[DP]

Im curious, what size do people render out at...we see a lot of nice archviz work in the gallery, but im wondering if theyre downres'd from final high res images, or people are working smaller for cdrom/dvd most of the time.

What makes me wonder about this is that we rarely come across standin photography like RPC etc that actually has enough res for decent A4/A3 renders...either the samples we've seen are low res, or everyone seems to be working low res, or perhaps no-one (the client) notices. We often have to shoot all we need ourselves.

[cocolas]

I do archviz and usually render my stills at 2500 wide @ 150 or 200dpi, but some clients want 24"x36" wide posters.......so sometimes I render at 6000 or 6500 pix high or more......
if I'm in a crunch I render at 2500 or 3000 pix then use Genuine Fractals to scale that up to a 6000 pix or more......the results are a bit blurry but not too bad, and it beats render times for a 6000 when the deadline monster comes knocking...

paul.

PS: for those of you that haven't used /heard of Genuine Fractals....it's a Pshop plugin that allows you take a fairly large pic (tiff preferebly) save it in its own format and reopen it through Pshop at a much larger size w/out loosing much if any of the quality. My experience is that if you try to increase a pic that's fairly small say an 800x600 to a 3000x3000 you will get blurring, but if the image (original) is already fairly big (say 2500 or 3000) then increasing it to 6000 or 8000 works fine w/out blurring the image too much.
Anyway here's the link to the app:
http://www.lizardtech.com/solutions/gf/

[axesaxes]

I usualy render a wide of 4500 pixels.
A great tip for making large pictures (bilboards);
render your images about 42 cm by 256 dpi (about 4200 pixels).
Print it with a fuji pictography (most fotolabs have one).
You'l get your file really sharp on real photopapier. The interpollation is so brilliant that you can't notice any pixel.
Scan this photo as large as you like in a proffesional scanner.
believe me it's better than scaling it digitally.