Settings to improve animation render speed My system is very underpowered. But I’m hoping, someone might be able to tell me what settings I could use to get the best outcome.
I’m using Blender to create a 3D version of my band's logo. I want to animate the camera rotating around the logo, but up close, just viewing small sections at a time. The animation has a particle plane (that uses three circles to animate floating embers).
I started a real small render (100 frames last night... and I’m estimating it to take 15 hours, for approximately 4 seconds of animation)
My system is iMac 21.5inch, late 2013
2.7ghz quad core intel core i5
8gb ram 1600 MHz ddr3
Graphics - Intel iris pro 1536 mb
Engine is cycles on CPU
Light bounce total set at 2
Tiles set to 16x16
Resolution 1920px x 1080px
24fps
Sampling is set at “render 200”
Format is set to avi jpeg
Quality 80%
Because it’s for social media (insta and Facebook) can I maybe get away with reducing certain things? Or changing settings somewhere to speed up the render?
You can consider using the Eevee render engine, which is much faster than Cycles.
It is less photo-realistic, but it seems to me that photo-realism is likely not a requirement for your logo.
To switch renderers, go to the Render Properties tab, and select &quot;Eevee&quot; in the Render Engine dropdown.