Rendering

I had left myself plenty of time to render as I had run out of time during the 11 second club submission for the competition. Rendering is not my strong point but it’s something I want to get better at.

 To achieve this I needed information for the screen size on the render and perhaps some basic settings. From previous rendering experience when loading Maya for render I knew I wanted to create the animation in mental ray.

In the rendering settings I selected mental ray in the render using drop box menu at the top.

From here I went to the common tab and named my file and set the rendering to Targa files with a frame padding suiting the animation time line. Another thing to remember is setting the appropriate camera as I have made this mistake countless times during this process.

I then set the settings in quality to production as I wanted really good scenes in my show reel.

After I proceeded into the indirect lighting settings and turn on global illumination and final gather to get the lights bouncing around my scenes more.

From here I was ready to render out my scenes. Here are my settings within Maya.

I plan to render out three different types of view for each of my made animations and compile them in premiere pro. The three different views are:

-Front

-Side

-Turntable

By rendering out with three different cameras I was able to see the different views of my animations. By doing this it would help to really show off my games animation show reel.

After the long process rendering out my scenes I imported all the files into premiere pro. From here I selected the best scenes that were rendered into the premiere time line and set up a title and end tile. With everything in place I needed a soundtrack to put in.

The sound track that I chose to put in was done by Crystal Method,-song ‘Roll it Up Edited’ and credit them at the end of my animation.  Once I had edited into place I put a fade effect on the end title which when I played over would fade out nicely on the last couple of seconds of my show reel.

My show reel was near completion I just had to export it out. Here is the settings I used for exporting out my show reel.