WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:03.770 Welcome to rendering an animation. 00:04.050 --> 00:09.710 In this video you will learn how to render your animation how to stop the rendering. 00:10.020 --> 00:14.850 What settings to use for good results and how to preview an animation. 00:14.850 --> 00:20.110 Once Chet has finished rendering so let's hop straight on over in a blender. 00:21.470 --> 00:26.780 Now some of you observant students would have realized that under the renderman you there's this button 00:26.780 --> 00:31.030 called render animation with the short cut control in F 12. 00:31.150 --> 00:32.230 Now where the. 00:32.250 --> 00:36.770 Don't don't touch it don't actually cause it we're not ready to render the animation just yet. 00:36.770 --> 00:39.370 We need to do some setting changes first. 00:39.980 --> 00:42.710 Especially as this is our first animation. 00:42.710 --> 00:44.390 So what to do. 00:44.400 --> 00:49.090 Well first of all let's go over to the render properties and look through this. 00:49.130 --> 00:51.500 So we've got a lot of options here. 00:51.500 --> 00:56.750 First of all your device that your rendering on if you've worked out that your GP you is faster than 00:56.750 --> 01:04.130 your s.p. you make sure it's on the GP you scrawling down a little under dimensions we have the resolution 01:04.280 --> 01:07.200 and the percentage of final resolution. 01:07.250 --> 01:12.360 So this is going to be 50 percent of 10 ATP essentially. 01:12.440 --> 01:17.840 Now obviously the higher that is the more resolution there is the higher the image quality is going 01:17.840 --> 01:18.570 to be. 01:18.570 --> 01:22.370 However it's also going to take longer to do. 01:22.730 --> 01:24.790 We're going to leave the frame rate as it is. 01:24.800 --> 01:26.220 That's absolutely fine. 01:26.540 --> 01:34.340 And if we scroll down here we have an output folder Now that is very important that tells blender where 01:34.370 --> 01:36.580 it's going to put your information. 01:36.590 --> 01:44.000 Now contrary to what it feels like down here when we select on what to save it has at the moment it's 01:44.000 --> 01:49.060 PRNG and we go Oh there's lots of video options here surely we select. 01:49.060 --> 01:52.230 That's the simple answer is No. 01:52.280 --> 02:00.600 The reason for that is it's much better to make your animation an image format so you end up with. 02:00.710 --> 02:08.750 In this case 120 images and then compile them into one single movie later on. 02:09.200 --> 02:16.730 If for whatever reason you do decide to use one of these movie options and then later on during this 02:16.730 --> 02:21.570 five hour render that you're about to do something goes wrong you have a power cut. 02:21.620 --> 02:26.160 Anything that stops the render will kill your file completely. 02:26.180 --> 02:34.880 However if you had finished off rendering 50 out of 120 frames and they you would have 50 pictures on 02:34.880 --> 02:36.020 your computer. 02:36.110 --> 02:42.050 And so if your computer crashed blender crashed you lost power or whatever reason you don't have to 02:42.050 --> 02:49.710 worry because the next time you change this value here you change the start value to 50 or 51 and you 02:49.730 --> 02:50.810 carry on. 02:50.810 --> 02:55.190 So there's a great reason for not having it render straight to a video. 02:55.190 --> 02:58.200 It also gives you more control doing it this way. 02:58.370 --> 03:04.850 And there's an additional benefit which will go over in a couple of lectures time where you render across 03:04.850 --> 03:08.310 multiple machines very powerful. 03:08.420 --> 03:14.330 So the start and end frames are very important that dictates how long the rendering is going to last 03:14.330 --> 03:16.850 for as well we just hinted at that there. 03:16.850 --> 03:22.790 So anything beyond any animation beyond the start and end or before the start and end won't actually 03:22.790 --> 03:24.410 make it to the final render. 03:24.530 --> 03:29.340 Of course it's the camera settings as well that dictate what is being seen. 03:29.380 --> 03:34.670 Now one final thing and we've touched on it when we did our render tests earlier answer we scroll all 03:34.670 --> 03:37.020 the way down to where it says proformance. 03:37.030 --> 03:41.210 Now you'll want to set this appropriately for your system. 03:41.240 --> 03:47.060 So cause I'm using a s.p. you generally the smaller tiles are better and you'll meet need a much larger 03:47.060 --> 03:48.190 tile or size. 03:48.320 --> 03:55.370 If you're using a GP you again if you've not done the full test I do suggest you do that because now 03:55.370 --> 03:58.530 that we're rendering an animation it's going to take several minutes to do it. 03:58.700 --> 04:03.140 So now I've got it to 16 by 16 I'm happy with everything else. 04:03.140 --> 04:04.430 Let's go to sampling. 04:04.430 --> 04:07.480 I'm going to do a test render to begin with. 04:07.490 --> 04:12.240 So on this samples here on the set the render level to just one. 04:12.520 --> 04:14.200 Okay that's good. 04:15.070 --> 04:16.170 Let's go up. 04:16.330 --> 04:20.280 Let's select an output folder unhappy leaving it as the temp at the moment. 04:20.280 --> 04:27.670 This is just an example but you can go into here and select a specific location to store your animation 04:27.700 --> 04:28.720 on your hard drive. 04:28.720 --> 04:34.900 Now when we come to do our final animation we'll actually pick a folder that isn't buried deep in your 04:34.900 --> 04:35.820 system. 04:35.860 --> 04:41.240 In fact the temp folder itself is quite hard to get to on a Mac. 04:41.350 --> 04:43.200 A lot easier to get to on a piece. 04:43.210 --> 04:49.720 So in this case I'm going to literally find I'm going to put it in my downloads following create a new 04:50.420 --> 04:57.640 the new directory there and said it has one sample lamp and this is literally just to get a feel of 04:57.730 --> 04:59.100 our animations. 04:59.090 --> 05:06.140 So with that selected there we can go ahead and go render and render animation. 05:06.390 --> 05:09.550 Well we can see that because we've only got one sample. 05:09.640 --> 05:16.840 It is very quick to render out our animation itself but it's still going to take several minutes because 05:16.840 --> 05:18.630 it's going to take at least two minutes. 05:18.670 --> 05:22.580 So I'll let this whiz ahead and I'll join you in a moment. 05:27.240 --> 05:33.150 Okay so we're halfway through our rendering and one of the things that I've noticed after watching this 05:33.150 --> 05:37.950 is because there's no reference material in the background I'm not sure whether we know by looking at 05:37.950 --> 05:40.800 this whether the lamp is actually jumping at all. 05:41.130 --> 05:44.320 But let's let's let's that be gone. 05:44.420 --> 05:46.760 I'm just going to stop the rendering at the moment. 05:46.770 --> 05:51.680 There's a little cross here that will stop the rendering on the info head a bar and we can click that 05:51.680 --> 05:54.330 that and it just stops in place. 05:54.330 --> 05:57.010 Now if we go in to our. 05:58.520 --> 05:59.690 Operating System. 05:59.690 --> 06:02.900 And I'm just going to find these sample lamp folder. 06:03.170 --> 06:09.550 Bring this down for you and we can see oh has one PRNG we can actually go through. 06:09.560 --> 06:10.940 These are the means to open that. 06:11.090 --> 06:16.430 And I'm down to 78 so at any point I can just continue from 78 onwards. 06:16.430 --> 06:18.910 If I wanted to continue this particular render. 06:19.220 --> 06:26.350 So in a render menu itself I can go to play rendered animation and it'll play. 06:26.500 --> 06:27.450 We got to. 06:29.300 --> 06:32.330 And then it will stop and repeat. 06:32.330 --> 06:38.670 Now we can see here there is a reference there's just this thin band at the back. 06:38.750 --> 06:43.850 So perhaps in this case I'm not going to add anything to our scene at the moment but it just tells you 06:43.850 --> 06:51.170 here even on this very rough and very grainy rendering that there is something probably missing to give 06:51.170 --> 06:56.060 the viewer the person watching this video a clue even though there is a dark band there now I don't 06:56.060 --> 07:01.790 know with more samples whether that's going to be more prominent is certain the obvious that it's jumping 07:01.790 --> 07:08.690 as soon as we swing round and see it landing again but I'm not sure if it is at the moment anyway so 07:09.290 --> 07:11.750 that's all of our stuff done. 07:11.750 --> 07:16.860 We've got a series of pictures I'm just going to continue rendering this out. 07:17.060 --> 07:19.620 Where do we get to we got to. 07:21.420 --> 07:26.740 You got to number seventy eight so if you need to stop for whatever reason the great thing is here I 07:26.740 --> 07:30.010 can continue and I'm just going to check 78. 07:30.040 --> 07:31.480 It's a whole picture. 07:31.480 --> 07:32.470 That's great. 07:32.470 --> 07:38.320 So I'm going to finish off the rest of my rendering by going down to here and typing in seventy eight. 07:38.500 --> 07:44.200 Now once I've typed in 78 I can just go back to render and render animation. 07:44.230 --> 07:47.830 And off it goes and completes the rendering. 07:52.020 --> 07:57.630 Excellence of the renders just finished so we can hop back onto render play the rendered animation. 07:57.640 --> 07:59.120 See how that's come out. 07:59.210 --> 08:02.550 Of course it's just going to play the last bit of our animation. 08:03.230 --> 08:05.110 Which looks absolutely fine. 08:05.120 --> 08:05.960 Brilliant. 08:05.960 --> 08:08.510 So we have a quick look after doing that rendering. 08:08.570 --> 08:13.880 We see that there are a hundred twenty one items in here there's unjoin 21 Pictures. 08:13.880 --> 08:18.950 And as we can see if we scroll down they are of our lamp jumping. 08:18.980 --> 08:24.060 Excellent so we've got all of our 121 frames already down. 08:24.290 --> 08:27.440 And that means for you guys it's a challenge time. 08:27.560 --> 08:36.110 I would like you to render a trial animation so set up a one sample test folder to save to set to render 08:36.110 --> 08:44.420 samples to one and render your animation preview your animation and make sure you were happy with it. 08:44.630 --> 08:47.140 Paul's video now and give that a go. 08:49.460 --> 08:50.090 Welcome back. 08:50.090 --> 08:51.440 How did you guys get on. 08:51.440 --> 08:53.800 Did you have to go back and make some adjustments. 08:53.810 --> 08:58.020 Are you happy with that render with that trial render. 08:58.160 --> 09:02.750 If you're not if the cameras in the wrong position if your model looks a bit odd if you want to move 09:02.750 --> 09:04.470 something do something else. 09:04.550 --> 09:11.270 Now's the time to go back and make those alterations before we go ahead and random the full animation 09:11.270 --> 09:13.400 which may take several hours to do. 09:13.850 --> 09:20.900 Right so I might as well take this opportunity to go back to the 3-d view because one of my concerns 09:20.900 --> 09:27.650 was that with the background being so smooth we might not actually be able to really grasp that this 09:27.650 --> 09:30.220 lamp is jumping up in the air. 09:30.500 --> 09:32.930 So I'm happy with the end and the start location. 09:32.930 --> 09:39.560 But this I'm not happy with because it doesn't really convey that the lamp is actually going upwards. 09:39.620 --> 09:43.230 I could put something in the background that might help for reference. 09:43.370 --> 09:47.420 But in this case I can also help by just adjusting the camera. 09:47.600 --> 09:53.090 So let's pull it back down to the ground plane and zoom out slightly and we can zoom out but just move 09:53.090 --> 09:56.520 it all that's rotation not location. 09:56.540 --> 09:57.330 There you go. 09:59.070 --> 10:06.390 And let's pull that across a little perhaps up still in frameless to see how that looks now. 10:06.610 --> 10:09.210 So let's play that animation. 10:09.330 --> 10:13.430 We're not at zero so that set it back to zero 6 jumping up. 10:14.470 --> 10:14.740 Right. 10:14.740 --> 10:18.010 That peaks just above the frame. 10:18.010 --> 10:23.890 I do want to keep it inside the frame so let's just stop that from playing with the right key combinations 10:23.900 --> 10:26.190 that jumps up a little bit there. 10:26.380 --> 10:30.520 So if we raise that up which is said ever so slightly. 10:33.400 --> 10:41.080 So that's wonderful there and here and perhaps I will make this just a little bit more dynamic by starting 10:41.080 --> 10:46.730 slightly behind our lamps our start here but this time rotate it round. 10:46.990 --> 10:48.260 So I'm starting like this. 10:48.280 --> 10:50.140 In fact the lamp. 10:50.660 --> 10:52.510 It's still going off there. 10:52.520 --> 10:55.740 So we're going to have to pull it this way just a little bit more. 10:55.770 --> 10:55.940 Right. 10:55.970 --> 10:57.440 Let's try that. 10:57.440 --> 10:58.460 In fact let's. 10:59.310 --> 11:02.800 Go down a little and just push it in a bit closer to the camera. 11:02.850 --> 11:04.960 Does that go off the camera. 11:05.220 --> 11:08.520 No that's fine jumps up stays in frame. 11:09.160 --> 11:12.180 That gives a much better impression of height. 11:13.970 --> 11:16.000 A case of made the changes that I like. 11:16.130 --> 11:18.650 I'm going to create a new folder. 11:19.220 --> 11:25.310 So let's go up a directory and this store of this in my down notes for temporary use. 11:25.520 --> 11:28.910 And I call it one sample test too. 11:29.820 --> 11:30.540 Lamp. 11:30.670 --> 11:32.580 You can call it whatever you like. 11:32.760 --> 11:39.480 And I'm going to accept that as the location and I'm going to hit renderer animation and I'm going to 11:39.480 --> 11:42.280 go make myself a cup of tea whilst that renders out. 11:49.280 --> 11:52.050 Okay so the renders all done brilliant. 11:52.160 --> 11:54.510 And I've got a lovely cup of oh great. 11:54.770 --> 11:56.460 How did you guys get on. 11:56.510 --> 12:02.110 Please keep your renders your test renders that you've currently got because not in the next lecture. 12:02.120 --> 12:07.410 But the one after that you'll be able to export this to a movie to share with everybody. 12:07.670 --> 12:08.350 Brilliant. 12:08.390 --> 12:09.810 See you in the next lecture.