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This is the first animation I've done on a "real" project with Maxwell and I wanted to share it. A little information on the process, the video is 30 seconds or 900 frames long; render times per frame were about 2 hours. The MXS files required 180 GB of hard drive space and took about 17 hours to export. Total time to set up animation for rendering was about 2 days; Maxwell is a superstar as far as quick scene setup goes!

I'm using a fee site to host the video; I don't know how well it performs.


http://www.mega-file.net/video/view.php ... 5ff008f33d

So which of the seven labours of Hercules is this one I wonder?!?
Impressive.

hey, thats pretty sweet, Maxwell looks good animated

The glass is stunning and creates the feeling of small scaled models.
But was maxwell really required for this project?

Awesome to see that animations is working now though!

Very nice work.

but so sad that it's too many disk space required.

maxwell animation is too far.

...how long was the rendertime for the complete animation.....?

Pretty!

900 frames X 2 hours a frame / 24 hours in a day = 75 days to render?!?

Tell me you had a renderfarm haha!

Jozvex wrote:900 frames X 2 hours a frame / 24 hours in a day = 75 days to render?!?

Tell me you had a renderfarm haha!

LOL

Great work Maxer. It would be great to see it in full resolution to. I can host it for you if you like.

Nice to see the animation. A change in the time of the day would have been nice for seeing how the light and colors change.

Good work!

Yeah, right. I DONT think he will rerender ANYTHING here. But we will see in 75 days.

He he.

is the mxs file size additive for each frame ? Oo

The render is cool but the main building is a bit too far from camera from my point of view

ludenhud wrote:The glass is stunning and creates the feeling of small scaled models.
But was maxwell really required for this project?

The powers that be wanted this animation to really stand out from what we usually due because we are in competition with several other firms for the job. I though Maxwell could handle it because it really wasn't that much animation.

jurX wrote:...how long was the rendertime for the complete animation.....?

All together it took a little more than 24 hours to render out the whole thing. I have about 80 machines set up right now for network rendering.

Fernando Tella wrote:Nice to see the animation. A change in the time of the day would have been nice for seeing how the light and colors change.

Good work!

You don't know what your asking for we had actually had that same thought but the logistics of saving out a different MXS file for 900 frames or even 400 frames was more than I wanted to deal with this time. It just won't be practical to do time lapse stuff until its possible to animate the time spinners in the Maxwell plug-in.

Hys wrote:is the mxs file size additive for each frame ? Oo

The render is cool but the main building is a bit too far from camera from my point of view

No it's not additive, Maxwell basically exports the same exact scene file for every frame, and the file size never changes.

Thanks for all the great comments guy's I really appreciate it. My next project is going to be doing about 3 minutes of interior animation for a large condo project. I hope everything goes as smoothly as it did with this one.

Nice to hear the Bach cello suite, but the video didn't appear for me....

Miles