3DS Max Rendering Animations in 3DS Max - Overview
Overview
- To fully understand the process of creating an animated video using 3DS Max, you must first understand the concept of video in general.
- A video is individual frames (pictures) combined together and displayed one-by-one at a fast rate, thus creating the illusion of motion.
- This motion video can be joined with audio for a multimedia (more than one media) experience. For example, when you watch a movie in the theater, the movie is displayed by a slide reel rolling along at a certain speed. Additionally, an audio track is playing so that when someone speaks in the movie, you hear what is being said.
- Creating your own "movie" or video.
- Individual frames of your animation will be rendered by 3DS Max and be placed on a digital "reel."
- This "reel" is simply a directory of frames which will then be processed & compressed into a single video file.2
- You can then play it with any media player on your computer (i.e. Windows Media Player, VLC Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, etc).
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