Final Render

I am really, really unhappy with my final render.

Although all of my progress images came out perfectly, when I moved my work onto my partner’s PC (because each frame on my own PC was taking 50+ minutes to render), a lot of the textures changed and there became this strange blacking out of the shading. I was unable to find any information online on how to fix this and knowing that it would take 7 minutes per frame even on his pc I made the decision to go ahead and render, lest I run out of time.

Unfortunately, the jars also became opaque and the metal no longer shiny. There is also a strange explosion of the fire when the render crashed halfway through! See if you can spot it 🙂

I wish I had had more time or access to a render farm in order to produce a better final product as I put over 200 hours into the total process and it felt very disappointing not to be happy with the result. I considered purchasing a render farm but my work has over 700 nodes and it was to be almost $100 to render my 32-second clip.

I hope you will take these notes into consideration when watching the final render. Please enjoy 🙂