Create rendered images and turntable animations

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Create rendered images and turntable animations.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to create a rendered image and create a turntable animation

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in fusion 3 60.

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Let's carry on with our design from the previous video, our render scene set up at

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this point. We've already set up our scene.

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We have our glasses in place and we have the appearances applied.

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The next step for us is to create

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our rendered images and talk about turntable animations

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to create a rendered image. We have three main options.

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We can do an in canvas render which allows for in canvas ray tracing.

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This is going through each pixel of the design and calculating

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how the light is bouncing and how the shadows are forming.

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The longer we allow this to go,

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the better the quality will be up until a certain point.

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You can see that it's calculating the number

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of iterations that's happening as it goes.

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And this is the same thing that happens when we do a local or an in cloud render.

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One of the main benefits of using the in canvas render is the ability for us to preview

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the appearances and make sure that the scene set

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up the orientation and all the appearances are correct.

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Before we commit to doing a full render,

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you can also use these in canvas renders as your final renders.

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But keep in mind the amount of iterations that you will have to go

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through is going to be dependent upon

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the lighting and material choices that you have

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any shiny or reflective materials or any materials that you're looking through.

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Like the lenses of the glasses

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will take more time to calculate.

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In addition to that, we also have to keep in mind that

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creating these renders using the in canvas render setting

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will consume the resources of your machine.

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Meaning that you can no longer use fusion.

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You can't rotate the model, you can't make any edits until that render is done

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for our purposes.

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I'm gonna stop the in canvas render and I'm gonna move over to the render option

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with the render option. We have two main choices here.

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We can do a local render which will use the local machine

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or we can use the cloud render

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using the cloud render will offload that render to a cloud

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server and it doesn't use any of your local resources.

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This is helpful because you can get it to do multiple renders at

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the same time and you can just wait for those to be processed

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with each of these. We do have quality settings, we have image size settings.

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For example, we're using a 16 by nine.

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And we want to think about what that final size needs to look like

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when I select 1920 by 10 80.

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And I'm using a final quality setting, then I can go ahead and select render.

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Keep in mind that in general you'll notice or you need to pay attention to

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tokens and cloud credits that are needed for renders.

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In some cases, you'll find that the renders are free to do.

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And in other cases, when we get to the turntable animation,

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you'll note that there will be a requirement for cloud credits.

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The amount of time it takes a render to happen on the cloud does vary based on usage.

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So if the servers are busy,

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you might find that it takes more than a couple of minutes to create your renders.

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If there's not a lot going on, you might find that it only takes a minute or two.

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Now, as soon as that render starts, you will also see a progress bar.

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But keep in mind that this progress bar is

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going to determine how long this render is taking

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and it might hang at the end or it might hang at the beginning.

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It's not going to be an elapsed time.

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Just kind of tells you where in the process that is

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while we're waiting on that render. I'm gonna go back to my second view

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and I'm gonna render this one as well. All the same settings are there.

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I'm simply gonna select render.

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And now I have a second item down here in my gallery

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and I can simply wait for both of those to be rendered.

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Now, the first render is done, we're gonna select it and take a look.

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So overall this render looks pretty good.

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We can see the reflection and you can also see how the reflection

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is a little bit blurred compared to the actual render.

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So I think that this is an excellent result and there

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are a couple of options that we want to talk about here

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with the cloud render. We have post processing options.

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Now, post processing allows us to do a few things on the fly.

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So we can play around with things like the saturation.

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And you can see that we're getting a

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much different result as we increase the saturation,

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we can also play around with things like bloom amount.

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Now bloom is going to be what happens when we have

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light bouncing off a shiny object.

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So this bloom amount can give an aspect of realism to your designs,

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especially if you're dealing with

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a design that has reflective surfaces like the lens of a glasses.

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I'm gonna increase that saturation amount just a little bit.

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I'm gonna take it back to about a 0.94.

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And also note we have an exposure value,

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we can increase or decrease the exposure value and

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play around until we're happy with the results.

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Once I select apply

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note that we now have two instances of that design.

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If we expand it, we've got the original and then we've got the processed version.

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So as we bounce back and forth between the two,

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you can see the bloom gives a little bit of that haze effect.

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And also it has lightened up the scene a bit

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with each of these, those settings are only available post processing.

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Once we've done a cloud render,

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we also have the option to download and we can pick whether or

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not we want a transparent background and we can pick the format type.

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If you pick transparent background, this only leaves you with two format types.

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But if you leave the background as is, then you can pick any of these four.

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I'm gonna select PNG and download this data set

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once you have a location,

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I'm gonna rename this to be my glasses render.

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And now I have that version downloaded.

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Keep in mind that when you are downloading these data sets that information.

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So for example,

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if you're using a color for a background as opposed to the environment,

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then downloading as a transparent background can be really helpful,

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especially if you need to put these images on a website

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or put them over something else in a different environment.

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But when you have options like a reflective floor or

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you're dealing with an environment that has a lot of texture

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that can be quite a bit more difficult

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once we have a render complete. We also now have the option to render as a turntable

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quick note as well if you have a motion study in an assembly.

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So for example, if we have joints on these earpieces and we fold them in and out

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and we have that as a motion study,

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we would be able to render that motion study as well.

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With render settings for our turntable, we can determine the number of frames,

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the quality and the image size,

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higher frame count,

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higher quality and a larger image will require more tokens or cloud credits.

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Notice that this is gonna cost 12 cloud credits for me to be able to render this.

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If I go down to a standard quality with only six frames,

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it only requires one cloud credit.

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If we drop the size of this down, let's say that we go to 9 60

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you can see now we're able to do this without any cloud credits.

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Let's go ahead and re

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render this as a turntable and we'll take a look at that turntable when it's done

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for now, let's close this out.

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We're gonna back out of the render gallery and

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we're gonna take a look at our second render.

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Whenever we have renders in the render gallery,

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if they're in the same exact view position or orientation,

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they will be in a subset of those images.

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And you can see here that we're able to expand this and take a look,

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but

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we want to back out and make sure that we note

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that we have quality and we have turntables shown here.

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When we take a look at these different images.

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If we were to create a custom orientation, one that we hadn't saved,

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let's say that we rotated around here.

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And we wanted to render this image.

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Once we render this image using all the same settings,

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we can drag and drop that into this position on the left.

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And every time you save your design, it will re

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render that image.

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Now, this can be helpful if you are changing things like decals,

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appearances or materials around

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and you want to maintain a up to date current version specific render,

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then you can do that by dragging and dropping that into this section here.

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And every time we save the design, it will re render that one for us.

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Let's go ahead and take a look at this render here.

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Everything looks pretty good.

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I'm going to go ahead and download this one as well as a PNG

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and I'm just going to allow it to

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name it, whatever it comes up as which will bring up the name of the design,

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the date the time

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and it'll have a customized view and a number after it.

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Now that we've seen that let's go ahead and take a look at the turntable animation.

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Now, turntable animation with six frames is going to be pretty jumpy.

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But if you do it with 36 frames. It will be a much smoother animation

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as it rotates around.

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Also note that we can manually rotate it around by holding down the left mouse button

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and going back and forth between the different positions.

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Once you have a turntable animation,

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you can download that as an html viewer document as a video or as a zip file.

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Downloading an image as an html viewer does give you some additional

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functionality if you want to work on putting that into a website,

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for example,

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where somebody has the ability to manually move that around on their own,

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that is possible, but it does take a good bit of work

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for our purposes here. I think that's it for rendering.

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We've played around with a couple of different

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options in terms of setting up your renders,

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setting up your scenes, setting up your appearances

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and taking a look at the final quality settings for how we create these renders

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overall. I'm pretty happy with this render.

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You could certainly play around with it quite a

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bit more play around with the camera perspective,

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the different scenes, the lighting and the materials.

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But at this point,

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let's make sure that everything that we've done to date is saved before we move on.