I need help

[Dark Soldier]

just compare a few renderers, like mental ray, brazil, and v-ray and maybe use default scanline as the control for your results.

compare the materials, volume effects(to get that murky underwater look), caustics, render times. try have the 4 renders finished by about Feb ( or the closest viva around then) and then make a survey with questions on the 4 renders from the 4 renderers, compare the results against the time taken for the render and theres your results. tell them your purpose is for people to a document ( your disseration and results) were they can read about the pros and cons of the materials, volume effects, caustics against render time. you have to make sure that all 4 images are as similar to each other as possible, base them on a photograph or concept piece because if they all look really different you can't really compare them and you'll write stuff in your conclusion like, '' brazil has very fast caustics, but materials suck and render time is too slow, mental ray renders fast, caustics match the concept art/photo, materials match concept /photo...so mental ray wins out of the 4'' but in a 1000 words.

hope this helps, they are useless on that bournemouth course

[Mark2008]

Thanks Very much. But I have had to change my idea now. I am going to be rigging a car and comparing it to a Plug-in rig. Hope they like this as I have got another viva tomorrow.

Thanks anyway

Mark

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