Hey guys,
I've had a couple of messages asking about settings so i thought i'd share.
Here is a screen shot of the settings I change. The parts highlighted in red is ALL if change from the default settings.
A couple of quick notes also:
This scene was lit with the HDRI in the environment slot only (no other lights/corona sun or anything else)
I rendered each image for 300 frames. They took between 3 and 5 hours on my machine (dual xeon 8 core) but were pretty noise free after 200 frames.
Each image was 3000p along its longest edge (so either 3000p wide at 1:2 aspects ratio OR 3000p tall at 0.9 aspect ratio.
Pretty much all my materials are simple defuse + reflect maps. I have used a bump in some of them but only on VERY low settings. I find if the material maps are high quality enough you don't need much bump (if any) for them to look nice.
That's pretty much it...very simple I know but it seems to work. Coming from mental ray in the past I would spend ages on all of my settings (especially lighting) and then just as long in post trying to make everything work together. Now, I don't have to do that anymore and can spend a lot more time on modeling/materials and know that everything else is going to work fine.
I have put the rest of this set and I will post more of the stuff I am working on at the moment on mt Facebook page...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Modern-Babylon/417177578405515?ref=hlCheers,
Mark
