Pigeon: Impossible Podcast #019 - Rendering

This episode shows some tricks for optimizing your renders and dealing with expansive environment shots.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• 3d
• cg
• xsi
• maya
• max
• blender
• lightwave
• short
• film
• rendering
• optimization

[ebstudioslive]

how long total did the whole movie take to render

[LucasMartell]

@ebstudioslive A back of the napkin calculation: 1 hour per frame * 24fps * 60 seconds * 6 minutes = 8640 hours, almost exactly one year of solid render time. In actuality, this was spread out over about 2 and a half years, so its impossible to give a more accurate estimate, but the last 6 months was almost solid rendering.

[activemotionpictures]

I didn´t quite get the name of the plugin for 2d motion vectors?

[LucasMartell]

@activemotionpictures I used SmoothKit from ReVision, but they also make Reel Smart Motion Blur (RSMB) that has a similar functionality.

[natedawg3973]

what kind of job do you have to get in order to be involved with all this kinda stuff?

[jalen180]

i feel stupid 

[ThaFunkster100]

Thanks for sharing your insights, I just watched through all your podacasts and found it very interesting an enlightening. I dont do 3d, but I do make machinimas and I am completing a digital media course, so I could end up doing all kinds of things. Your tips based on experience should prove useful.

[atomsound]

Israelis are developing artificially intelligent video podcast aggregators.. Videos like these will hopefully fare well and get seen by many more creatives. Excellent work!

[TheGotthan]

I hate rendering, program always crash.

[ajbwolfman]

make another pigon imposibal please my famely loved it