How can 15 students quickly render in Carrara? - Polyloop

Vista Ridge · 15th May 2008, 17:16

We are working on a cool project where we have 15 students each creating a character on in a scene they designed in Carrara. We have planned to render and then save each students work as avi . then we will import the avi into Premiere Pro and edit it into one movie. But we are thinking each 10 to 20 second clip will take hours and hours to render! And I have other classes coming in to use computers!!

any suggestions or advise!
thanks Karen

Grendel · 15th May 2008, 18:17

Save all the scene files to a hard drive and then let them batch render them out during the night when no one is there. Also limit them on the use of GI and indirect lighting, and focus on 3 point lights to help keep frame times down. Make them keep to a one minute/frame limit, just some examples.

jbshorty · 15th May 2008, 18:53

you might also want to restrict them from using blurry reflection/refraction, sss, and displacement...

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Vista Ridge Vertex Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1	How can 15 students quickly render in Carrara? We are working on a cool project where we have 15 students each creating a character on in a scene they designed in Carrara. We have planned to render and then save each students work as avi . then we will import the avi into Premiere Pro and edit it into one movie. But we are thinking each 10 to 20 second clip will take hours and hours to render! And I have other classes coming in to use computers!! any suggestions or advise! thanks Karen

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15th May 2008, 18:17	#2 (permalink)
Grendel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 1,277	Save all the scene files to a hard drive and then let them batch render them out during the night when no one is there. Also limit them on the use of GI and indirect lighting, and focus on 3 point lights to help keep frame times down. Make them keep to a one minute/frame limit, just some examples.

15th May 2008, 18:53	#3 (permalink)
jbshorty subhuman infection Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in a dirty sock Posts: 1,552	you might also want to restrict them from using blurry reflection/refraction, sss, and displacement...