A few hours later…
July 4th, 2009 | by Simon |… I have an animation of the pavilion ready:
This took an inordinate amount of time to render in Yafaray – and I’m still not happy with the quality of the results – too much noise at the edges (the patchiness of the “grass” is not from the renderer, but the external flash encoder). I think Yafaray is mainly good for stills, where you can crank up the settings and wait for it to churn out the results. MentalRay in Maya still has this one beat, especially in terms of the quality of the sky light and the cleanliness of images.
Next I think I will see how Big Buck Bunny was lit – it’s rendered without final gathering in Blender’s internal renderer, but it’s all really nice. Here’s the main advantage of open source and Creative Commons licenses – it allows you to learn from the work of others. Beautiful.
I also want to test out Kerkythea – it’s a free (though not open source) renderer, which appears to be fast AND to give exceptional results.
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