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is everyone happy the animations are sent?!
so...is everyone happy that your animation is out of your hair!!!???!!! what does everyone think of those that are submitted?
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We ran into some last minute problems, plus converting from AVI to MOV for some reason degraded the quality by about 50% making it very fuzzy (everything was set to 100%) and we didnt have time to check into it. Uploaded the entry with 12 minutes to spare :eek:
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I ran into some bad rendering too slow problems, tried to get a render farm going in school but alas, we couldn't do it because the internets were linked up with the town and stuff and.. oohh nvm. Sadly the thing is STILL rendering... will take 3 days.. so we don't have an animation in.... but next year, I won't have 3 weeks wasted cause I didn't have a computer that could run 3ds max 9. I'm still rendering it on my single comp at home, which will take 3-5 days if left unattended. I'll put it up on the web to show what I did. I'm just glad I have an animation done, that's all.
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our animation has sound of heart beats, but the volume of them was really low... can only be heard with a sub woofer, or big headphones... :( we are making an bootleg version with credits and fixed sound to put on youtube :cool:
as to the quality of video, we think that it looks perfect!!! :p |
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I'm releaved but am upset that the animation quality turned to **** after I made it a .mov. but it's over and i can't do anything about it now.
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Same with us... We had 4 hours to submit the animation, and tried everything, but that ***** codec DV-NTSC messed up with the quality of the image, and our audio turned into crap.... Rookie year... This is what happens =p
I just ain't satisfied with the 30 seconds limit they gave us... I think 45 seconds would turn our animation on something much more professional. But that's what we've got... and we had to make a lot of cuts =p... But i think it's fine for a rookie team ^^ |
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DV-NTSC is a good codec, the difference between the unconpressed .avi made in 3ds max and the final .mov file is minimal...
make sure that the option "use high quality video setting when avaliable" is selected in quicktime preferences. without it the video is horrible... |
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Considering that we lost one of our animators midway through the season and we still got it done early is a miracle.
I'm always relived to get it done. And it's pretty good. |
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I am not overly happy with the animation, as the quality necessary to meet the size requirements is below what I desire. Also, the fact that I had to do the whole kit and kaboodle myselft sucked. But it's done.:)
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Our team's animation didn't quite make it this year: It was done with ~3-4 days to spare, but the rendering took much longer than expected. We used a render farm composed of a dual 3.7GHz xeon and a few other p4's but it didn't finish in time. The Xeon was taking about 4 minutes per frame, and the P4's hardly did half of that speed. When we started it out first, we would've had it done with over a day to spare, but 3DS Max kept crashing on the computers around frame 10. In the end, we just couldn't get it done. However, I've volunteered the use of my computer to render it and it should be rendered in a little over a day total.
Sadly, this is the second year in a row this has happened to our team. But next year....We'll be prepared! :-) |
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It's wise to save time for rendering, but it's also wise to find inefficiencies in your rendering settings. I remember, at Nationals last year, going to a little seminar on how to adjust lighting settings to cut down on rendering time. There are always shortcuts. Reducing the number of skylights, the degree of calculation, optimizing models, turning of reflections and other SFX, etc.
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Our renderer crashed a lot while we rendered... but we saved as image sequence, so it wasn't a mess... But a render that would take 2 days, took 6 days on a 4gb 3.5 pentium 4 .... And this computer was assigned to 400 frames...While the other pentium 4 2.5ghz with 1 gb ram didn't crash and made more than 350 frames within 3 days... Strange =p And we disabled screensaver and these things, but it still crashed, and when the render was ready, we had only 2 days to make the animation and figure out how to use that codec... The result was obvious... We had 2 hours to upload that file... And we thought zipping it would be a good idea =p... BAH we were wrong... and it didn't even warn us BEFORE the upload, so we lost 1 hour uploading a zipped file to know it was forbidden... Now here we go without ava submission... But first isn't this...Me and the other animator learned a lot from this... one of the things we learned was: Don't leave things for the last hour... It will always blast on your face =) And since FIRST isn't competition, we are satisfied we at least made an animation, even if we couldn't submit it =) |
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