Sunday, March 4, 2007


(No Multi-Pass but with PS edit)


(Multi-Passed render)

Lighting Tests

QUESTION: Is there a difference between these two photos?

If you answered "yes," then you are correct! What is that difference? FREAKING render times that is what. The second image was rendered using a multi pass effect with the camera called Depth of Field. Depth of Field, as most art types know, is an effect that pushes the depth in a 2D image through bluring (applying atmospheric effects) out things that are supper close or really far away. Now, Having a multi pass render takes a while. First image was rendered in a minute using some advanced lighting tricks to give 3D Max renders a nicer look. The Second image took 12 minutes (1min per pass). Now, I took the first image that didn't use the multi pass into photo shop and blurred the shadow and some other areas to make it identicle to the second. Overall, messing with the un-multi-passed image took far less time (5 mins) then the multipassed image.

Lesson: Don't have the computer calculate (over and over again) something you can do in a few moments.

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