Hello Guys.

So I started to play with Iray. I'm rendering a 30 seconds of facial animation made with iphone X and live face, speedtrees . I 'll post here the result tonight. It 'll be finished this evening.  I just post one of images here.
What I can say is : it's fantastic. As you see on my profile, my machine is humble and yes, it takes too much time. But the result is there. I think that I won't use iray for everything, just for some large facial animation scene. And I will show you water rendered in Iray (but I need a time, that's the BIG BIG problem)

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Okay, here we are. The workflow :
character made with facegen, => daz G8=>CC3
Animation : Live face and iphone X
Standalone rendering with max iterations 300 -  max time 100s - rendering time = 16 hours

I started the rendering yesterday at 11PM , I went to bed, wake up, go to work, go back home, open my computer,  It's finished.




     

I'm too old to Iray.
I know that sounds like a hip-hop song or something but at 16 hours for 34 seconds of video, I'll be dead before I can
render one of my videos. It looked fine but not so fine that it's worth the time, even overnight.

Let's see, a rough calculation brings me to 564 hours of rendering for a 20 min video. Check my math but it looks like it
would take 23+ straight days of rendering to finish a 20 min video.. My computer just looked at me and "Huh uh, not on this think box, it's not."
[God, I hope my math doesn't embarrass me. :P ]

Nice work though man. It looks very good.

:cool: pete


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Thank you Pete. I totally agree with you. That's why I said I can't render all my scenes with Iray, I'll choose some epic scenes, just  few because my machine could not follow


     

So I did another video, the same, but rendered in native iclone with IBL and GI quickly made, not worked a lot
Rendering time is 4mn20s against 16 hours with iray, the result is not too bad, without SSS but not bad




     

Nice test Rama, 
I do think that if a bit more time and better lighting were put into the iclone render it would be almost as good as the iray render, and now with the new HQ 3d scan heads, things will be much better as it seems it's the avatar faces that seem to determine the perceived quality of a project.  
It will be interesting to see how iray is used in iclone but at the moment iray seems too slow for animation even on some of the BEAST machines forum members have.
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That’s what it’s starting to look like. We haven’t seen a really complex scene with a bunch of lights and props SSS etc. Iray May be great for small clips or stills of certain shots. We’ll need workarounds otherwise. There were a few guys on the forum saying pretty much this will be a waste for animation. I wouldn’t call it a total waste, but it may be pretty rough to pull off for a larger project and a modest machine. I’ll do some tests once I finally get some spare time under my belt.

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They both look good but iray is not really an animation engine.




Freelance Artist Kevin.S



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It would be good for tight close up facial shots. Look at a movie and see just how long the takes on people's faces (or any individual takes are for that matter) -- they are usually only 2-4 seconds each. So an iray animation could make for very compelling use in key moments, but it would need to be sparingly used in order to actually finish the movie lol.

Hello Guys, being discouraged by Iray for long, or even medium scenes, I've worked a lot with GI and IBL and LUT for my project, and I confirm, I'll use Iray only for very very short scenes because even without Iray, Iclone does a very very good job

These renders are NOT Iray

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