After Jack’s thoughts on the future of V-ray and Corona, we bring you this detailed tutorial from Dorothy at D-Zine Lounge.
How to use Corona Renderer to render a 3ds Max animation Home Blog How to use Corona Renderer to render a 3ds Max animation. After Jack’s thoughts on the future of V-ray and Corona, we bring you this detailed tutorial from Dorothy at D-Zine Lounge. Corona Render Farm Software 3.0 Download the Render Farm Software for Windows or Mac. RebusFarm was one of the first official partners of the Corona Renderer. With our strong expertise in architectural renderings and visualizations, RebusFarm became the No. 1 Corona Render Farm Service very fast.
D-Zine Lounge was asked to create a 60 second animation to showcase a client’s products – shutters and blinds.
“We needed to model five different rooms in a house with various shutters and blinds,” explained Dorothy, “and we needed to animate these products within the rooms to show how they each affected the light in different seasons and times of day.
“We were given the storyboard and room layouts, plus some ideas of the types of furnishings required in the different rooms, and given create freedom.”
This tutorial will give you an insight into how D-Zine Lounge set up their scene with V-Ray.
Over to you Dorothy….
The setup
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We used a range of software to create this animation:
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- 3ds Max – Modelling, Lighting, and Animating
- V-Ray & Corona – Rendering Software
- Forest Pack Pro – Scattering Trees and flowers
- RailClone – Fences
- Phoenix FD – Fire and steam
- After Effects – Compositing video together
- Online Rendering – YellowDog
We have used V-Ray as our primary render engine in the studio for countless productions, and having 10 years of experience in V-Ray, I’m confident in getting the settings just right for our clients. Just follow this quick tutorial to do the same with your animation:
The Tutorial
3D modelling
We created all the rooms, windows, shutters, and interior details in 3ds Max and used furniture items from either our library or from Design Connected and Evermotion. All the rooms were modelled in separate scenes to help keep the poly-count down. This reduces lag time in our studio, and reduces render times.
We then modelled up the surrounding grounds that could be seen through the windows. We used Forest Pack for trees and flowers whilst using RailClone for fences and railings.
We needed to create four variations of the same garden with different plants and trees to show the different seasons. In the winter garden, we added a blanket of snow and a snow man…of course! In a bid to reduce file size and render time, we rendered 360° views of each environment variation, and mapped them onto curved planes in the different 3ds Max scenes. This gave the illusion of the garden without the large number of polys. Replacing our high poly garden with a single curved plane reduced some files from 1.69GB to 200MB.
The curved plane material was a V-Ray light and it was set to not cast or receive shadows.
Lighting
We used V-Ray suns in all the scenes to give strong direct light, and V-Ray HDRI maps in the environment slot for the backgrounds and indirect lighting. We spent quite a bit of time on this to match the V-Ray suns to the HDRI maps.
Check out some of the stills we created – notice the subtle differences for each season:
Animating the shutters and lights
Once scenes were modelled in 3ds Max, we set about animating the shutters: opening and closing angled slats to show the effect they had on the light in the room. These shutter objects were initially x-refed into different scenes but as they became client approved, the models were merged into the different scenes so that final tweaks could be made more efficiently. This saved valuable time over the course of the project.
For quick approval of the speeds and movements of the shutters or cameras, we rendered out Viewport Preview animations. They take a few minutes to render but as many of us know, are very helpful with gaining client approval on the fly.
The only thing this didn’t help with was demonstrating the animated lights. To get approval on this, we rendered low res images of every 5th frame of the autumn, Christmas and kitchen scenes. Then we created draft sequences using After Effects.
Setting Up Cameras
This project had 18 sequences with different timings for each, and the cameras only moved small distances which is always good to keep it smooth and slow.
We used the same technique for animating the cameras as we did with the shutters and the lighting. Typically, the cameras moved for around 7 seconds.
The Turning Point – V-Ray to Corona
Since our scenes would have moving objects, lights, and cameras, we planned on using time-interpolated irradiance maps. They help to ensure that there is no flickering or differences between the frames and are faster than using brute force rendering.
They were only taking around 20 minutes per frame to process, so we knew that we could submit the files and irradiance maps to YellowDog for rendering because we could control our costs within budget on those sorts of renders.
Our client kept growing the job: requesting extra rooms and more shutters. Our 60 second production trebled to 3 minutes and eventually beyond. Creating short sequences and still images for proofing a significantly larger project began to take up too much of our time; and we felt like we had less and less tricks to deploy to increase efficiency.
To create nice looking small animation sequences in V-Ray using time-interpolated irradiance maps was now taking us about 40 minutes to 50 minutes per frame due to client changes. We could animate without caching the irradiance maps to get the times down but then you compromise quality and get horribly blotchy productions. Brute force only increased render times enormously so wasn’t a viable option with our budget.
I had seen and heard a lot about Corona and after just looking at a few tutorials decided to try it out. We were astonished with the amazingly quick render times and the very uncomplicated animation set up! There is no need to cache irradiance maps so it works similarly to Brute force…but the render times are much quicker. We took a risk and decided to move into the unknown.
Part two of this blogwill explore how we converted our project to Corona, so make sure that you click here to find out!
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We’re pleased to launch the Corona Benchmark application for OS X!
This represents an important milestone for us. What you see here is a fully working version of Corona, using the same technology and rendering core as the Windows platform. The only difference at the moment is that it has no hooks into an external modeling program.
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We’d ask you all to run the benchmark as the more people that try it, the more it will help this proof-of-concept and identify if there are any remaining issues with the conversion. Do please post your results (it’s an easy one click from within the benchmark to send them) and those results will post to the same table as the Windows results but will be marked in the listing as “OS X” (no flame wars, please! ;))
It took a lot of work to convert Corona across to OS X – 4 months of dedicated work by a single developer focused on the task – but we did it!
Coming Next….
As always when we release something new, we’re not taking any time to pause. Instead, we will be pressing on with our other plans, including a Linux version which should be simpler to complete now that the OS X version is done and could see a release later this year; a standalone version of Corona on the OS X; and of course the OS X version of Corona for Cinema4D. We’ll keep you updated!