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Motion Blur for animation?

DekeDeke Posts: 1,632
edited December 1969 in New Users

I'm experimenting with animation. You can see a test clip here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPnwk8Qlfk
What strikes me as an area of improvement is motion blur. These shots were output as PNG files and comped in AE. I had thought to add motion blur in AE for flexibility and to shorten Daz Studio render times. Maybe this isn't the best way to do this and I need to use the Daz motion blur option? What's the best way to prevent a stutter-move look?

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  • NoName99NoName99 Posts: 322
    edited March 2015

    Hey, that's a great looking video you posted, I love the camera moves. Really nice job on that.

    I do see some stuttering on your character as he is walking, but it should be fairly easy to overcome.

    I've experimented between the Daz motion blur, and the different motion blurs in AE, and I find the AE motion blurs to look better.
    I usually render everything out in layers and composite in AE as well, but this should still work if you rendered your entire scene out as a single image sequence.

    AE has two motion blur plug ins, TIMEWARP and CC FORCE MOTION BLUR.

    I usually get better results with TIMEWARP.

    Try the following, and let's see if it eliminates the stuttering.

    *Make sure the PIXEL MOTION and MOTION BLUR boxes on your layers are TICKED.
    (1) In AE, create a new adjustment layer and drop the TIMEWARP effect onto it.
    (2) In the TIMEWARP effect, change the SPEED settings to 100
    (3) Still in the TIMEWARP effect, go down and TICK the MOTION BLUR box.
    (4) Change the motion blur settings to MANUAL, experiment with the values until you get a motion blur you like. I'm going to speculate a Shutter Angle of 90 with 6 samples will good results, but you'll have to experiment with the values.

    I hope this helps.
    Post back and let me know what kind of results you get, I'm curious to find out.

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  • NoName99NoName99 Posts: 322
    edited December 1969

    Hey, I just saw your other post in the Animation forums and saw that you rendered out in seperate layers.

    Take the steps I outlined above, but instead of applying them to the entire render, apply the TIMEWARP effect directly onto the layer of the main character.

    That way the motion blur will target the stutter directly.

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