Noise in acrylic during animation!

[Poog]

Hi folks, cant share TOO much info due to the project being an NDA (will share as much as I can!) but when I animation this product, theres a lot of noise in the acryllic sections mainly. Now this looks fine as a still, but when animating you can see the noise like crazy. I can't get into keyshot at the moment but I'm using the default studio set up product mode, with caustics turned on and ray bounces are at about 10 last I checked. The canvas material looks great up top, and this is the only area with severe enough noise.

Samples are at about 250, and I suspect we need to bump samples up to around 500+ to resolve this but we're hoping to keep it time efficient if possible, and 500 samples might be a bit much on our current machine. I attempted samples on individual materials but didnt see the option on keyshot 8 (maybe I'm blind.)  So, thoughts? Is it the sampling, or perhaps an issue with the default lights?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Eric Summers]

Try enabling Global Illumination if you don't have it on and change from Product to Interior Mode.

[bdesign]

Also, make sure you're rendering with Max Samples, not Max Time under the render options; this will keep the samples/noise constant for each frame and prevent flickering.

Cheers,
Eric

[Esben Oxholm]

Is the caustics crucial for the wanted look of you rendering?
Otherwise I'd suggest to turn that off and I think what is causing the problem. Caustics definitely needs a lot of samples to be super smooth (Espcially for animation)

[Poog]

Try enabling Global Illumination if you don't have it on and change from Product to Interior Mode.

Late answer, but doing it anyway in case someone else has a similar issue. This right here solved it.