Rendering

Just before rendering i had to set up two cameras, one coming in from behind the spitfire and another which circles the engine. The cameras had to end and start in the exact same place, this was to add to an aesthetic flow. In regards to rendering this took several days. Originally the scene was to only contain a mere 750 frames (60 fps to give the flexibility of slowing down the animation without loss of quality) however to my horror each frame was to take 2.3 minutes. So to reduce the time taken i had cut down the frames to 350 and reduced the resolution to 800 x 600 (had the resolution originally set to 1024 x 768 as this is the screen size for around 45% of the worlds screens). The render was done by rendering individual mental ray PNG files. Using PNG allows more flexibility in premiere and a far more colour depth as PNG use around a trillion different colours, far more advanced then AVI video.