Render Static Camera Shots Faster and Cheaper
Richard van der Oost writes:
This is a trick that one of our users is using in his own pipeline, and he was kind enough to share it with us.
When you render using a static camera, instead of rendering the entire animation as-is, you can do it more efficiently. By only rendering the moving parts as an animation and the rest as still frames, you save a lot of render time (or money in case you’re using a render farm).
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Hahah nice!
Yeah i read about something like this before. There is an addon called animated renderborder which is perfect for this work. I believe you can look it to the target and the renderborder will automatically update in each from while following that target within the frame
That’s a great tip! Using that could have definitely made this example render even faster.
I remembered this from a couple years ago while I was busy updating an addon for an external render engine. The addon is on BlenderMarket but can also be found on gutHub
It was first thing I though off reading this intro adding to your trick/tip
https://blendermarket.com/products/animated-render-border/
https://blenderartists.org/t/animated-render-border/646511