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has been rendered with fprime max 7minutes for frame
( i am not the author)
http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid= ... 1179160437

It's pretty nice, ....but the whole time your watching that your just thinking, .....'man, ...if we could only do that with ...........'


.....someday.

perhaps Daros could do that just now... who knows... it is an exterior so with his farm perhaps he could do a frame at a decent resolution in few minutes as well...anyway the author of that movie rendered it on single dual 4200 x2 machine...

well... fact is that for this kind of movie, you'll gain very little with Maxwell, lemme explain... in movies, you can get away with a lot of artefacts all because of the movemements... I mean do a image/image with any film with CG fx, ... looks good at 24 or 25 frames/sec. but make push PAUSE..... ouch.. hehe..

Wifey was telling me the other day how some fx in a movie looked so spectacular, so real..., but as soon you pause the film, or print a poster with one single image... ouch...

just to say that it might look good with F-prime now (and I was a big F_prime fan) will look goofy when Maxwell will gain speed fpr animations.

.... because Maxwell is the best....

(moreover, it also depend on who is behind the scenes..)

herve',

the look might not be THAT different at all. fprime uses a variation of the metropolis light transport algorithm and it's quality is not far away from maxwell's output. i know it because i'm using both of them nearly every day. of course, maxwell is the more accurate engine, but fprime is definitely much faster at it - and you don't need maxwell's accuracy in all productions. especially in animation, the perception of images is different and tends to focus more on the movement - so our eyes might tolerate a less 'realistic' rendering which it would reject as 'unrealistic' when used as a high resolution still.

probably in a few years we all will have hardware in order to render maxwell animations as we do with fprime today...

but after all: paolo did a really great animation there, i like the CG sea very much!

cheers

markus

don't misunderstand me... I agree 100% !