A new animation : Cavernae

[Nico3333fr]

Hi guys !

At last, a very long render ended a few days ago. The scenes have been made by Franck Doassans : http://www.7thcircle.fr/ . Animation, render and editing by myself, as usually.

You can find it here : http://www.nicolas-hoffmann.net/source/animations.php (about 28 Mb)

Thanks for viewing and commenting ! 

[Seth]

great animation Nico !

[Hetzen]

Love it. Great sense of drama.

What in your opinion is the best way to solve some of the flicker issues? There's been mention of increasing the "GI Blur Radius" to about 400, is this something you applied to this animation, and the previous two ("sea_clouds_final_divx" & "moon_who_ami_i_divx")? Also it's a shame about that exploded rock.

Saying that, great camera moves, and fantastic sound edit realy compliment the very good images.

[Tangled-Universe]

Fantastic! Love it! When seeing scenes like this animated the realism really pops more than the still images
The exploded rock is indeed a bit of a pity, but certainly doesn't spoil it at all for me.
You probably know you can fix this by disabling "blend as stone density" in the fake stone shader.

How long has this one been rendering?

[cyphyr]

Cool atmospherics, you can really feel his pain as he reaches the summit only to be greeted by miles and miles more terrain to cross !!
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Richard

[RArcher]

Really great work Nico and Frank Franck!

[Seth]

Nico and Franck 

i really like what you did Nico... thanks again for that !

[Gannaingh]

Very cool!

[Thelby]

Impressive!!!

[Nico3333fr]

All : Thanks ! 

Seth : oops Franck, I'll correct this as soon as I can. BTW, thank you for the nice scenes you've made !

Hetzen : I don't remember the values... I'm gonna check this out asap and I come back to you.

Tangled-Universe : the first part is the longest : about 2 months on my 2 PCs : a Core 2 Duo 2Gb (very low, about 3 frames per day) and a Core i7-920 9Gb, which was rendering 2 frames at the same time (about ~10 12 frames per day). I could render it quicker, but I didn't want to decrease too much the quality of Seth' work.

The other part was very quick to render on the i7, 4 or 5 days.

[jo]

Hi Nico,

That's really impressive stuff, the whole package together. I apologise for the glitches! Congratulations to Franck as well.

Regards,

Jo

[Tangled-Universe]

All : Thanks ! 

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Tangled-Universe : the first part is the longest : about 2 months on my 2 PCs : a Core 2 Duo 2Gb (very low, about 3 frames per day) and a Core i7-920 9Gb, which was rendering 2 frames at the same time (about ~10 12 frames per day). I could render it quicker, but I didn't want to decrease too much the quality of Seth' work.

The other part was very quick to render on the i7, 4 or 5 days.

You're welcome, again, it's great work.

However, did you take a close look at Franck's file prior to rendering? I also have it and I remember he had GI surface details enabled back then and also some other "unnecessary" settings cranked up.
Probably a stupid question, since the rendertime is too valuable and you probably looked into it very well, but still I find it a bit slow.

[Nico3333fr]

Jo : thanks !

You're welcome, again, it's great work.

However, did you take a close look at Franck's file prior to rendering? I also have it and I remember he had GI surface details enabled back then and also some other "unnecessary" settings cranked up.
Probably a stupid question, since the rendertime is too valuable and you probably looked into it very well, but still I find it a bit slow.

To be honest... it was 2 months ago, and I don't remember. 
Just let me have a look, and we'll see which values I've used.

[Seth]

yeah Nico did change some values, and at that time, i wasn't very aware (and concerned) about optimizing my renders

[Nico3333fr]

There it is :

-Quality : 0.8
-AA : 5
-GI relative detail & sample quality : 3
-GI Blur radius : 6
-GI Surface detail is checked

-Detail blending : 1
-Cloud samples (athmo) : 128