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Multi-Pass Rendering With C4D & AE

Multi-Pass Rendering With C4D & AE

on Jun 2nd 2011 with 16 comments
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Rendering, probably the most boring (but apprehensive) part of working in 3d. As we all know, sometimes renders can take an eternity to finish. One simple mistake or a wish to make a minute adjustment can force you to re-render your scene and make you re-live eternity. That’s why most people use compositing software to make changes or fix petty things. However, a very powerful technique needs to be used to ensure that the compositor’s life isn’t hell while working on a scene, and to unleash the true power of compositing: Multi-pass rendering. And that’s what we’ll discuss today.

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  • xsid

    thts strange.. just took a lesson on MP from a DVD and now got the video on cgtuts.
    the completed lesson on
    www/vimeo.com/xsid

  • http://www.secondmountvernon.com jR

    Please,

    I hope you take this as constructive criticism. The valuable Information that you are covering regarding multi-pass rendering is great except for 1 thing.

    1. Please stop fidgeting around. Try to remain still as possible or at least move your mic off your desk and away from from the keyboard (use a Mic Stand). The noise you make in your audio is totally distracting and gets highly annoying.

    Other than that I enjoyed what you were trying to convey but left away annoyed which Im sure others will agree.

    • Vaibhav Kotak
      Author

      Thanks for letting me know. Right now I use headphones to record the audio, but I plan on investing in a microphone and a stand soon.

  • Kris

    Don’t make a MP tut if you don’t know what the passes do or how they can be used.

    • http://www.ardillamedia.com Anders Hattne

      Just what I was thinking.. Did he say “using Motion Vector to colorize an object”?! Motion Vector is used to generate motion blur in a compositing programme, and it saves incredible amounts of time.

      Also to see individual passes select “Single Pass” in the layer navigator of the Picture viewer. Otherwise Alt+click and ctrl+alt click are usefull on layers.

      I’ve watched 8 minutes so far, and it’s been ..weak, but hey- it’s free, that still gives me the right to complain, right?

    • Felipe

      Came here to say this. I only watched 10 minutes of it and I get that the author has good intentions, but to me he just comes across as having no clue what he’s talking about.

      He just rambles on and on, as though he’s trying to learn the very thing he’s supposed to be teaching. Not my favorite tutorial on Tuts+.

  • http://www.nicolasplaire.com Nikko

    That’s cool, but I was expecting more than just a superficial knowledge of the multi pass render, it’s not great to hear that you don’t know what all the passes are for. Because that’s why I wanted to follow the tutorial in the first place. I wanted to learn how to use the Material Passes, if they could be used in a way I haven’t thought of before. Because, in here I haven’t found anything I didn’t already knew. Even worse, I felt like I knew more than you [that can happen, that's not a problem], but I would not have chosen to do a multi pass render tutorial without a more thorough knowledge of the subject.

    • Vaibhav Kotak
      Author

      Well, I may not know what all the material passes do, but you forget that there are people out there that don’t even know AO is. The point of this tutorial was not to go very in-depth about every kind of pass there is to be found, but rather to get beginners up and running with multi-pass rendering. But you know what, you’re totally right, I’ll try to learn more about the subject and post a tutorial about it on YouTube or something as an extension if I can.

      • http://nicolasplaire.blogspot.com Nikko

        That would be a very good idea if you can!

        But I have to say, it’s not because it’s a beginner tutorial that you don’t need to know your subject matter. A lot of people are making that mistake, like “I can teach things to children because it’s not very advanced” but even if what you’re trying to teach is the basics you need to know more than just that.

  • Anthony Alexander

    Ya know I didnt even watch the video to come to the same conclusion. This must be one of those youtube kids who think a tutorial is the same as watch-me-do-this. I’ve thought about making tuts, but I won’t until I’m ready to be able to present insightful perspectives and definitely not before I’m comfortable with the subject matter..

    • Vaibhav Kotak
      Author

      If I were “one of youtube kids who think a tutorial is the same as watch-me-do-this” then I would’ve had a tutorial that showed how to create something, but rather I tried to go over an option in the program and explain what it does. But if you think I didn’t know enough about the subject, then next time, I’ll go even more in-depth about what I’m trying to explain. Sorry to hear you were disappointed.

  • Vaibhav Kotak
    Author

    Expansion:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkmu0KzWf9Q

    I apologize in advance.

  • Kris

    I’m new to cinema 4d and I think was a good tutorial cause I just started making some simple modeling and it kinda helped to navigate the render settings a bit. To the more advanced users maybe it didn’t help but I just wanna say it helped be

    thanks

  • The Fat Man

    WOW!!! I understand if English isn’t your first language, but please, organize your thoughts. Also, lay off the “Ummms” and “Ughhhs” and clicks and generally fidgety speech and actions.
    Thanks for trying. I hope you use this info and are not be defeated by this or any other comments.
    I think it’s great that we can all share info.

  • http://www.keremgogus.com/ Kerem

    Great introduction to multipass rendering and compositing, very informative. Thanks for your effort!

  • http://vimeo.com/channels/broadcastgfx Tryambak

    Firstly thanks for teaching a thing or two. But if you cant speak english dont extepore !! Practice the tut in your native language. Script it down and then record it, Tut creation is not just posting a screen capture output but it needs a goal, insightful details, gramer, why you are doing the thing and other aspects of presentation. If your really waana give some tut make them crisp stright and clear. I think, if VFx artists had that much patience to listen to rumble and rumble they would rather be clearks !!

    But for your effort it was good and thanks. You may find it benifitial to view a bit of Andrew Kramer or Nick (Greyscale Goriila) or may be even the MONKEY ( The Motion Exchange) !

    Best of luck next time !