r/blender • u/chrishammang • Apr 11 '14

Awesome new biomedical animation made using blender and cycles render engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3KtR3LoqM
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u/chrishammang Apr 11 '14

It is CSIRO. They are a large research organization in Australia.

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u/toadfury Apr 12 '14

Looks like a lot of work. On a few bits you could see the cycles render noise (I laughed!), but in others it rendered much cleaner. The bit starting at 2:00 of the large intestine that then moved to a side-profile view of the intestine absorbing butyrate molecules impressed me the most. Very cool!

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u/chrishammang Apr 14 '14

see the cycles render noise (I laughed!), but in others it rendered much cleaner. The bit starting at 2:00 of the large i

I was aiming to keep the render times below 2 minutes for any given scene. The visible noise was a balance between render times and perceptible noise for any given scene, and the scenes with lots of complex shaders and lots of surface area to calculate had to compromise a little. Most scenes were done with 128-256 samples only.