The Frog Does Leap! (4/7)

 Today I decided to do a test render of the final animation, just to see how long it'll take on the university systems. I know that my home PC is a bit, well, unstable - but it is able to run maya as is pretty well (as long as the file isn't a whole gigabyte).

So, I started out today by rendering a single frame in the Arnold Renderer - which comes with maya by default. The initial frame took about 1 minute to fully render - but there was an issue with noise in the image, meaning I had to increase the samples the renderer took per frame (and due to not wanting to go through the AOV options and assign passes to this very short animation, I increased each sample by 1 (excluding the camera, which I increased by 2)).

To put it simply, today is going to involve a lot of waiting around - which I will use as an opportunity to not only work on notes for the retrospective piece we need to hand in next Monday, but also to work on other pages that I haven't gotten close to finishing on this blog - of which are mainly to do with this whole module and the exercises we did throughout it.

One thing I'm doing differently is timing the render itself: turns out that it took only 54 seconds to render the frame with the default Arnold settings, and 4 minutes and 40 seconds with my adjustments. Luckily I didn't need to increase the values any further, as I don't think the exponentially growing length of the render would be needed in that case. As of writing this, my estimation of the animation taking 30 minutes to render could be very close from what I can tell, but we'll have to see - I did add motion blur to this, so my render time will go up as it samples this aspect.

Hopefully (and that's a big hopefully), my render time isn't going to take more than the time we have for class today, cuz if so then I may be doomed to a slower render time...

I will post an update later in the day when the render is finally complete!


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