What Monitors to use for making 3d animated films?

#1

Hi,

I wanted to ask the community here for a recommendation. My goal is to make 3d animated short films after I graduate from college here real soon. I’m looking into buying some monitors but I am so torn up between color accuracy, black and white contrast, refresh rates, etc for monitors and OLED TVs to use for my PC. I’m going to be doing a lot of photo realism graphics using Cycles in Blender (to the best of my ability) and obviously a lot of post production work like video editing, color grading, compositing etc.

My dilemma is that I have the strong urge to see the best possible picture at all times so that I know what my final output truly looks like. I assume a pricey OLED TV will give me that best possible picture at all times although I don’t like the cumbersome of its 50in size on my desk. Color accurate monitors are better sized for my desk but it doesn’t seem from Rtings.com that any PC monitor would really beat a good sized OLED TV - in terms of quality picture - unless maybe it is a expensive color accurate monitor. What Monitors would you guys recommend? should I get both an OLED TV and PC monitors or is that just overkill?

Thanks,

#2

Tv are made for displaying nice pictures, not for accurate color representation. Go for a good monitor that can cover the color range of the typical output device your short movie will be displayed on and a color calibration tool, like the ones xrite or datacolor are producing.

#3

Thank you for your reply VanDerGoes. I suppose if I wanted a 4 monitor setup I should have one that is color accurate and calibrated so that I have an accurate representation of what my final picture looks like. The other 3 can be for anything I do on the PC accept for the final render output.