The rendering is nearly done. I should be compiling the images into a video in the next couple of days and then I will post the final product for you all to see.
As I was watching some of the frames render I noticed some stats (statistics) about the scene which some of you may find interesting. There are 3 lights, 2 are ray traced and 1 is shadow mapped. There are 53 objects in the scene and a total of 123846 faces. If there was something else you wanted to know about it, send me an email and I’ll see if I can find that information.
In preparation for compiling the final video, I downloaded the Adobe Creative Cloud copy of Premiere. Well, it said it was for creating videos. I messed with it a bit and found that when I dropped images in I didn’t quite understand how to make sure the time slider understood that one image was one frame and it shouldn’t hold that frame/image for a certain number of seconds. Yes, I will likely want to figure this out at some point. I may want to use the program for something.
However, every tutorial I have watched and most articles I have read, talk about using After Effects. I didn’t choose it first because the Adobe description indicates it is just for creating visual effects. I tried it anyway and it behaves just as I was hoping. I did a little test with some of the already rendered images and it looks like it will be running at 30 frames per second. Which makes my 300 frame animation about 10 seconds long.
After Effects was much easier to use and it behaved as expected so that will be what I will be using to compile this project into video. As soon as the last frames are rendered.