controlling indoor and outdoor exposure for animation

[sdds]

I have just finished rendeing out an animation with both exterior and interior crossover ie. moving from outside to indoor in one shot. The way I do it is just to light the interior with ies lights and the standard sun / physical cam setup avoiding any long rendertimes with area shadows.

 

the problem with this is you often dont get the natural skylight creeping in, using vray fill lights will require increased rendertimes, bake with irr map may cause artifacts etc.

 

I would be interested in how other do it with such a setup? Animating the exposure is an option but a tad fussy lol.

[John Dollus]

I usually render the interior as a separate pass and adjust the exposure in post to suit.

[erickdt]

I too would suggest that you render the inside scene and the outside scene seperately slightly over-lapping in the time line with different lighting setups and then edit them together in post. This will create an animated exposure effect but it will be much more controllable.

 

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[sdds]

ture it would be sidestep some of the noise issues when brightening something in post only erick. I may play arount with some blue tinted lights with vray shadow maps as a very slight fill also.