Reply To: Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

@theluthier Yeah I’ve had that same experience before, the placeholders doesn’t look back, it keeps going forward so it seems it’ll be alright. I think Jack tells Rose the same thing in the Titanic. I haven’t seen that movie in perhaps 20 years, jesus christ. 

I have learned a couple of things doing this project. Perhaps the thing that caught me most off guard was the samples a scene needed. It’s a different approach when you’re doing just a still image than when you’re rendering hundreds of frames. I figured that if the Toyota scene needed 1,000 samples to clear up, then the Heli scene would need double that amount since it’s a much more complicated scene, but then magically it got away with just 256 samples. How in the world? I had never rendered something with so low samples and for such an intricate model. 

But then after doing another scene with the Heli that has a sun lamp and no HDRI in it, renders were coming out with much more noise and needed much more samples to clear and the other 256 sample scene had no lamps and only only simple HDRI, so that’s were the key is in all this. 

Also it looks like there really is a science behind layout, depth of field, camera placement, composition lines, etc. I notice my eyes are all over the place when seeing the frames all rendered in a movie sequence. You can’t just go about throwing the camera wherever you like and focusing anywhere, framing and planing the layout of each shot turns out is quite a big deal.