Sports Opening

[mballard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIgmXZrkViE Here's youtube link to my sports opening tutorial by 3d garage. Was fun tutorial, took 197 hrs to render the clip all to find the light a little hot but I'm learning a lot. Had to use the png's to create the clip to put into Adobe Premier Elements. The regular QT clip looked fine on QT player but it didn't bring the lights and their colors into Adobe, strange??

[evolross]

That seems like an extremely long time for the resolution and what you produced. There may be some settings that need to be tweaked. Like GI settings, ray recursions, and potentially baking some of your surfaces. If possible, of course.

[adrian]

Looks really good. I was thinking about buying that DVD as I know Dan's tutorials are excellent and I like his easy to follow style.

Just out of interest, what resolution were you rendering it out at? I know YouTube compresses to the standard size it uses on the site - I'm just wondering why it took 197 hours!!!!

[oobievision]

seems like your reflections are through the roof 197 hours? thats when its time to set up a render farm. also seems a bit slow in the animation. just feels like there should be more action.

[Bill K]

Looks cool - even with YouTube compressing the heck out of your finished render, the movie looks great. 197 hours seems really, really long for the render time. If you have QuickTime Pro you can create a movie from the PNG's you rendered in LW using QuickTime Pro; make every frame a keyframe if you choose Animation codec, and use the best/highest res settings offered. Seems odd about what happened with Premiere. If you tried to render out a QuickTime movie/Animation codec, from the PNG images using Premiere, and didn't make every frame a keyframe, choosing "millions of colors", that might be part of the problem you described.

[mballard]

Thanks everybody, if by resolution you're asking about the antialiasing, I had it on classic enhanced low, so 5 passes. I did a revised version with a football field in the background, and I think I lowered the lights a bit and using PLD pass 1, rendered out in around 10 hrs. It's on youtube now also. oobievision I'm with you on the action. I've got to experiment with flying the camera around to give it more excitement. I think my brain was waning at the time I got to that point, it was 3am and I just wanted to finish. Thanks again mb

[aidenvfx]

NIce work I just started on this same project yesterday. Dan's training is fantastic, especially for those new to LW like myself.