Time To Get That Camera Rolling

This post is going to be commenting on how I rendered my scenes ready for the group to bring together.

Once I had finished animating my scenes they were finally ready to render which was the scarey part of the module because so many things can go wrong with rendering.

There was one idea that I had to render my scene's which was to make them straight into animation clips (avi files) so that they were all ready to roll and could be viewed instantly, however I was worried about this as from previous experience using this method can be quite costly because if anything goes wrong you have to start the rendering again right from the beginning.

So I went about trying a new idea, which was recommended by the lecturer which was to save the render's as 'Targa' images, if you use this method the render saves the animation as single frame images, which you can then put these into Adobe Premier for example and create your completed animation, furthemore if you use this method, and in the worst case scenario that the render crashes, you don't need to start the render from the beginning you just need to render from where the render crashed. This saves a lot of time and hassle, however while I was using this method I came across no problems so I could have used the avi file format and would have been better, however I am glad I have used this new method for rendering as I now know which method to use if avi should ever fail again.