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GossWreck

08-12-2007, 01:50 PM

Hey all, I've been a lurker here for years and only made a few posts with some of my early work, but I'm working on a project at home now and I'm putting it out in V-Ray. The project is based on Quake 3\Doom and it's a short that we want to show at Quakecon next year.

This is an animation test for one camera angle:

http://www.tritin-multimedia.com/tritin-films-archive/camera-01.wmv

My main question is that I'm rendering in V-Ray. So far I've gotten some great results, but I'm wondering about your process? Do you usually render out in an AVI under a specific codec? If so, which codec is best for clarity and solid pixels?

And if not... is it better to render out each frame in a jpg\tif and then import these images to make a crisper video?

Thanks

http://www.tritin-multimedia.com/tritin-films-archive/scene11.jpg

LuckyDevil

08-13-2007, 12:10 AM

hey i really like the camera movements you got going on, and the animation looks preatty good. as for your question about rendering out from v-ray, um i have not used v-ray but my suggestion is to render out single frames and stich them together in a compositing or video editing software. because if something goes bad in your rendering half way through you wont have to render the whole thing over, you would only have to render the parts that got messed up and it usually has better quality. plus you can adjust the timing and play around with other things if you render out single frames. but thats my opinion.

the renders look great btw, make sure you post it when its done so we can see it.:thumbsup:

best of luck

-hugo

HokageMegatron

08-13-2007, 01:19 AM

Hey GossWreck,

Looks like you should have a nice shot when its rendered out!
I agree with LuckyDevil, render out the shot in to still frames if a certain renders poorly you can just address the problem and render just that frame out again rather than the whole thing! :)

I suggest you should render to a lossless image format like tiff's or targa's if you want to maximise the quality your getting out of it. jpegs are compressed and may have artefacts in them.
How you finding Vray for animation?
I haven't used it but friends have said it was quite slow?

Hope you post the final animation, luck forward to seeing it!

GossWreck

08-13-2007, 08:30 AM

Thanks to both of you! I've been rendering in AVI for years for my shorts but unfortunately I never really thought about this until now. I've done some test renderes with V-ray in AVI and notices that frame vs frame compared to an AVI build and a single Tiff build gave me a lower quality result in AVI. I'll definately go with frame by frame builds and do a composite after.

And thanks for the comments. I'm about 2 minutes into production on cameras. This is one of the cameras for scene 1. I'll definately post the entire short when I'm finished.

:)

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