Animation Anti Aliasing

[Sawyer]

I am working on what is really one of my first animations. I am getting a fair amount of banding and lighting artifacts I am wondering what the best a.a. setting is for animations. I was given this project on very short notice so I may not be able to redo it but just for general info is there a good quality/time filter?

 

 

Cheers

 

SF

[ingo]

Well, that depends obviously on your software. But you can also render at a higher resolution without aa and scale it down later.

[choochee]

What software to U use ?

[Sawyer]

Yeah I can see why that may be important. This is in max 5.1 no advanced lighting just a light dome.

[John Dollus]

Is your light dome using mapped shadows? The artifacting you describe sounds like it.

[Sawyer]

Yeah they are shadow mapped. Basically this was a project that is impossibly tight time wise. I was given 10 days to do 2 animations but I have to do it in my own time so just nights & weekends. So I just have enough time to do 1 test animation and that is it no more time. So I am kind of seeing a lot of things that I wont do again.

 

Shouldnt complain too much the cash is there so it works but it is very stressful to have this little control over the final version.