Rendering Takes Too Long!

[240 Animation]

Originally Posted by Eagleeyedan

Don't know if you already know this but thought i'd bring it up anyway in case others don't.

It's not just the screen size you render to that makes it HD. When you render, there is a box underneath the current rendered frame with lots of sliders. Those can be used to adjust the quality of the render. I.E. how realistic your shadows, reflections, glossiness etc. are. If you are just doing a quick test render, I'd suggest bringing those down for faster render time. For final, I just leave those on default so the file size is kept low enough.

I think we messed with those a bit at first, but I believe they're back on default now. We will definitely have to double check. Thank you!

[scottydoh]

Just outta curiosity, what are the specs of your rendering rig?

[240 Animation]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

Just outta curiosity, what are the specs of your rendering rig?

Well... I don't remember. It was whatever the requirement was in the rules, though.

[scottydoh]

Originally Posted by 240 Animation

Well... I don't remember. It was whatever the requirement was in the rules, though.

No no, I meant whats in your computer?

[240 Animation]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

No no, I meant whats in your computer?

No idea. Where would I find this? I can't access it until Monday, though.

[scottydoh]

Originally Posted by 240 Animation

No idea. Where would I find this? I can't access it until Monday, though.

If you're on a Windows machine, Right click "My Computer" > "Properties" Should list your RAM and CPU

[240 Animation]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

If you're on a Windows machine, Right click "My Computer" > "Properties" Should list your RAM and CPU

And somewhere the "specs" will be listed? I'm not good with the inner workings of computers.

[rzoeller]

[240 Animation]

Originally Posted by rzoeller

I LOVE THIS *insert puking rainbows meme here*

[SCRktkt]

Welcome to rendering. Here are some things to try:

1. Plan on adding depth of field blur in post. This will allow you to use a cheaper anti-aliasing, such as Box instead of Gauss or Mitchell.

2. Experiment with composite renders for shorter times. For many scenes, you can hide the characters, and run the final gather once at a high accuracy. Then freeze the final gather, and render the camera moving in the environment. In a separate render, using the mental ray matte/shadow material on the environment, render just the characters. The images can be composited and adjusted easily in post.

3. For your Arch & Design materials, dial down the reflection interpolation for everything you can.

If you need more help, post here and I'll see what I can suggest; images of your work will help.

[rastermon]

We were rendering in Mental ray with lights set with low res shadow maps (512) of course, they looked bad, so we switched to ray traced shadows. That took too long. But then we changed to advanced mentalray shadow maps at 2048 and it looked good AND rendered faster. I was surprised that in some cases, MR renders faster than scanline.

[240 Animation]

We have finished rendering our animation, but this advice will certainly come in handy next year =)

[scottydoh]

Originally Posted by 240 Animation

And somewhere the "specs" will be listed? I'm not good with the inner workings of computers.

Yup, it should be fairly obvious once you do it. Should look something like this;

[240 Animation]

Yup, it should be fairly obvious once you do it. Should look something like this;

We have:
Intel Core I5
4gb DDR3 RAM

We use Windows XP Pro 32-bit, SP3

[waialua359]

I'm not surprised. Ours took HOURS and we have a high end 12g RAM, 3.07GHZ, Intel XEON processor workstation.
I'd plan on starting it at the end of your day and let it run all night, and the next morning, if necessary.....