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In this 3d animation tutorial, I uncover a way of emulating indirect lighting and to a lesser extent ambient occlusion to greatly speed up your render … more »

In this 3d animation tutorial, I uncover a way of emulating indirect lighting and to a lesser extent ambient occlusion to greatly speed up your render times.
http://www.scififunk.com/2012/02/20/fast-daytime-lighting-for-3d-animation/

Although this was orginally for Carrara, to some extent the idea would work for all sorts of 3d apps.

I have to say that this is a work in progress and that you might know a better way. However I am an animator, and so I don't need perfection, instead enough realism to make the scene credible is ok.

If you have the resources to speed up the incredibly slow renders with global illumination switched on then great! For most of us however we are limited to finding the best compromise with perhaps 1 to 1 and a half minutes a frame at 24 or 30 frames per second.

In which case this tutorial might be of some assistance.

Steve
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