animation - Bucket rendering

[jonofj]

hi all

Im doing an interior scene with bucket rendering for a short animation.

my question is im not sure if Im doing this right, cos not sure of the settings.

i did a quick render with 480x270 size with all default settings PT + HD.

Bucket rendering settigings:
initial samples 10
Passes: 6
adaptive threshold: 0.03

its ok for a test, so I want to do it in higher res. and size of 1280x720 for final animation sequence.
now im doing a test render of just one frame and its taking almost 2-3 hours for just one frame,
as the 480x270 were rendering frames at approx. 50mins each frame.

Im not sure about this bucket rendering settings, as im use to using the progressive, but I read bucket is better for animation as renders out the frames quicker.

any help  please . thanx

[jetcrow]

its prety not easy to make corona animation via 1pc... if it is interior. show scene plz.

[juang3d]

Do you need the 6 passes? maybe you are ok with 2, also you can try 8/3 instead of 10/6, try it out to check how it goes.

Also try 5/5 (just to check) because the improvement of speed is done in the passes, not in the initial pass, but of course an interior will be a long render.

Anyways, rendering an animation in a single PC could last a lot.

Cheers.

[jonofj]

hi guys thank you all for your responses, sorry been flat out trying to work everything out and learn everything at the same time to meet deadlines. actually took the advice to render on fox renderfarm, and just kept it at same settings, didnt have time to do changes and just shot it at them so I can get the frames, was also first time doing the whole animation thing, and put it into adobe aftereffects. Fox renders turned out the frames  pretty good. and so boss is happy ..still have to doing more work.
but all in a great render .

was wondering if I install this new version Corona A7 will it affect my whole setup in my current projects? maybe should wait and continue to use A6.

[juang3d]

I upgraded in the middle of a project, no problems so far :)

Cheers

[jonofj]

thanx will give it a go.

[arqrenderz]

Can you tell us the cost of the animation? number of frames??

[jonofj]

cost of animation - it depends on the scene and each frame being rendered and your render settings.
ive used bucket renderings of 10/6 and its about $1.20 per frame with A6 version
and ive recently used 6/4 and its about $.50 per frame both at 1280x720 size. with A7 version.

you can give it a free tree the fox render gives $20 free for testing purposes.

you can contact Evan - evan.zhang@foxrenderfarm.com