Help Rendering a huge image

[D-Pix]

Hi All,

 

I was hoping someone could give me some advice...

 

I'm working on a series of 3 visuals at the moment that will need to be produced for a hoarding roughly 2.5m high. I have spoken with the printer and our graphics team they recommend rendering the image to 8500pix high, meaning the image will be 72dpi.

 

I will be sending the renders out to a render farm, so not too concerned with render time however I don't want them to be crazy!!

 

I'm using Mental ray and will likely add a few passes, such as ZDepth, Lighting, AO and a reflections pass. So already adding to render time.

 

Should I set my Anti Alias to 1/16? or lower? Should I set my filter to Mitchell or will Triangle be sufficient (I usually use Mitchell for stills)

 

Any other tips?

 

Many thanks for any advice.

 

Cheers,

Adam

[Tommy L]

Im applying logic from Vray.....your passes should not affect the render time, only the writing time which is negligible. 8500 is not that huge.

[D-Pix]

Would you render larger, say 16000 pixels to achieve 150dpi at 2500mm?

[Tommy L]

oh no, thats not my point. Stick weith the printers recommendation. It all depends on how far away the image will be seen from when it comes to resolution. What I meant is that 8500 pixels is not a dimension to be scared of.

[D-Pix]

Ok, thanks for the advice. Might bump it up to 10,000 then just to give the graphic designers a bit of bleed on the image.