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Vray/Mentalray in Animation -
Hello guys, i have a question about lighten your animation. I dont find a good video tutorial, where the artist lighten his scene for animation . I want to make a dark horror scene, with dark skys. I will set up a skydome, where i apply the skymap (i think this should be right). My character is running on a plane and he… -
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Signed :) Because of prebaked final gather maps and possible flickering i would avoid mentalray or vray for animation. And arnold is really easy to set up. -
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Both renderers can do great work. I have found V-Ray to be faster when I have many lights in a scene, for example an architectural interior. For your example though, either renderer would work fine. It will take some time for you to get familiar with which settings to use, how to set up your lights, and how to adjust your… -
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For this particular case Arnold would be best option, it's fast in outdoor, has probably best SSS shader and very fast hair (faster that Vray/MR). Also amazing volume light shader for creepy atmosphere. You don't need to make zillion of test renders, just start IPR/render region and it updates interactively as you tweak… -
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Yes. Turn everything off, just to adjust the basic light values. Final Gather does affect the lighting a lot though, so you will need to turn it on at some point. But the idea is to gradually increase settings as your scene gets closer to final, because you can adjust things more if your renders are faster. -
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i try to read the tutorials --) Thank you so much Eric! The idea, to lower the render quality is nice idead. I will check this out. You mean, turn everything off? Final Gather, Antialiasing ... and and and
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