2012-10-04

WSOL

Here is the latest and hot off the presses. This is an animation that I've been working on for the last month. I initially was going to animate it in mental ray, but was getting really long render times for frames. So I switched to vray, and it made the render process much easier. Here's a link of a mr / vr comparison of this project. There's not much special about the technicals. The post work was done in After Effects.

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  1. Did you just say that vray renders in 5 minutes what mental ray does in 30 minutes? Come on!!! If you don't master mentalray maybe you should stop making this kind of comparacy. Next time, instead of making an post calling it "vray vs mentalray" call it "what I can do with vray vs what I can do with mentalray". Sorry the mood of my comment but you are not helping the 3D community at all.

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    1. Agreed, it didn't make sense to me how mr took so much longer in this file. In this one example, I just happened to get much faster results with vr, so I stuck with it. Looking back on it, I have a feeling there was something corrupt in the file. I just didn't have the time to troubleshoot with such a large file.

      I still love mr, and it's still my first choice when tackling a rendering!

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    2. Funny you should say that, because me and my colleagues used Mental Ray for quite some years (thus well versed in tweaking for speed) and are all now using VRay, wholesale. Speed and reliability is of the essence.

      It isn't that mental ray isn't capable of good results per say, it's that the speed and reliability of VRay is pretty untouchable.

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  2. Very nice animation. Could you tell me which people libraries you used? Are they pre-animated or did you hand key them?

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    1. Thanks. I used axyz people. They were rigged models and I used a library of motion capture data to drive the animation.

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  3. Great job! Could you tell me what music plays?

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