Creating Stormy Ocean (3D environment)

[Patrick Jones]

I was working on a 3D environment creating a stormy ocean environment and I once I was finished, it was time to render…I rendered it in Cycles instead of eve which took over 7-8 hours only for this to happened. 3D Environment: Stormy Ocean

Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysCSbhXYBo

[Martin Bergwerf]

Well  patrick,

That appears to be the work of your Color Balance Node:

[Martin Bergwerf]

…and it’s 400 Frames!

Even with 1 minute per Frame, you’re looking at 400 minutes, or 6 hours and 40 minutes.

[Patrick Jones]

Thanks for responding, do you have suggestions on how to easily fix this? 

Do I need to remove the color balance nodes? 

Do I also need to shorten the frames? 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Patrick,

You can certainly use a Color Balance Node, but your Settings are too extreme at the moment (don’t forget to plug it in the Viewer Node as well as the Composite!).

Render one Frame, to see if it’s okay. You can also get an idea about the total Render Time this way.

Animations always take a long time to Render…the less Frames, the shorter the total Render time.

[Patrick Jones]

Thank you Martin for your help. Very much appreciated.

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