[giacob]

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

[ivox3]

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


.....someday.

[giacob]

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...

[Hervé]

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..)

[mgroeteke]

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

[Hervé]

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