Tutorials and Assets
Turntable Animations
Chapter Two: Rendering from the Command Line
The most common way to present a model, to a client, supervisor or on a demo-reel, is to create a turntable animation. This tutorial demonstrates a simple, yet effective, solution for creating dynamic turntables. Chapter two demonstrates how to render a Maya animation from the Command Line. While it is possible to render from within Maya using Batch Render, there are several advantages to avoiding this approach. More memory is available to the renderer when Maya is closed which is often a necessity. But furthermore, command line rendering simplifies the process of managing rendered frames, network rendering and the batch rendering of multiple scenes.
Post Date: May 29, 2007
I found volume 2 of this set very interesting. It was my first exposure to rendering out of Maya using the command line, so it really peaked my interest.
Posted June 19, 2007 - 07:59pm
Posted August 18, 2007 - 03:51pmUsing the Command-Line are extremely helpful for me, but my studies and interests are based on the UNIX Shell, I hope that Alex adds a new tutorials that describes how to use it with a few popular UNIX Shells, such as IRIX winterm and Mac OSX's Terminal.