Animations taking forever to render

[George3d]

Hi all,
I tried my first animation. It took 11 hours to render out 38 frames of a 5 second clip and was not even half done. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I am using a new gaming PC.

Any advice would be great. Thanks

[DriesV]

There are many variables in the equation.

For starters...
What kind of scene are you rendering?
What is the resolution?
What quality settings are you using?

Dries

[George3d]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

my scene contains a car and a default back plate. The animation output settings are Res 1920x1280, avi, everything under passes unchecked. In options I have samples 72, global illum 1, Ray bounces 10, pxel blur 1.5. I am using all 8 cores.

Thanks

[guest84672]

I'm not sure that you need 72 samples, 24 may be plenty. I suggest you let your scene sit for a while and look at the number of samples until the image looks good. This may be a better approach to rendering higher quality images faster.

But in any case, there is no magic when it comes to rendering out animations. Each frame has to be calculated separately.

[George3d]

Thanks for your reply, will give that a shot. Regards,