Speed up your Arnold renders in Maya and remove fireflies and noise in low light conditions

In a rush to render your animation in Arnold? Fireflies and noise all over the place? Try clamping, adaptive sampling, and disabling light indirect contribution.
00:00 - Intro
01:47 - The issue: fireflies
02:45 - Structure of the scene
03:35 - Adaptive Sampling
04:45 - Clamping
05:05 - Troubleshooting with AOVs
07:43 - Point light and indirect contribution
09:30 - Render Setup suggestions
09:56 - Comp structure suggestions
10:27 - Conclusions
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[@BlazingGunRose]

I've been struggling with rendering my animation in Arnold efficiently, so thank you for this video. It helped me a lot to comprehend what I'm doing better with my render.

[@perealemany4856]

Thank u so much ive been having these fireflies in arnold for houdini. It worked!

[@orko_pro]

Thanks a lot for the help! As always, great video!

[@animationpandemic]

Happy to help!

[@apoorvchitransh7541]

Thanks!! for this tutorial, this really helped me.

[@animationpandemic]

Glad it helped!

[@gaiardow]

Great video thank you that's exactly what I was looking for ! :D

[@animationpandemic]

Thanks, it's fantastic to read this!

[@mov733]

Excellent Tutorial. Thank you very much for your effort

[@animationpandemic]

You are welcome!

[@prabhatgupta8889]

such a helpful viedo was searching for this was fed up from flies thanks

[@protoxo2033]

You got me, all I was looking for, tnx n subscribed.

[@animationpandemic]

Thanks!

[@MultiArsh007]

Would not have figured out the indirect issue if hadn't seen this. Relief, phewww. Thank you for helping. :)

[@animationpandemic]

Glad to help!

[@beginnerguru8285]

amazing tutorial, helped a lot

[@animationpandemic]

Glad it helped!

[@rogerteles]

Very thorough!

[@animationpandemic]

Thanks! I am glad you liked it.

[@rebecaperezlazabrosa]

wow it's the best video tutorial!!! thanks

[@animationpandemic]

Gald it helped!

[@Jimann3]

So helpful, thank you!

[@animationpandemic]

Thanks for stopping by and letting me know. It improves my day.

[@hariharanrajaraman7151]

It worked. Thanks. I am happy.

[@animationpandemic]

You're welcome!

[@bahaatuffaha6607]

Thank you! You saved me a lot of time rendering this also works with Cinema 4D ❤👍

[@tangyorangegames7488]

Thanks for this

[@artisticminds4337]

Great tutorial! This really worked and turned down my render time by a lot!! Thanks!! Wish I had found this video sooner as I already wasted rendering 40 frames out of 100 frames and it took like 3 days of continues render Lol

[@animationpandemic]

Glad it helped! Arnold is really taxing, in terms of render times.

[@thefloydian1876]

same rendering since 6 days and still rendering and I am using GPU with 3070ti :(

[@user-xy4bs1nm3k]

@@thefloydian1876 Turn off Indirect diffuse and specular! You can fake those with a couple extra lights, and direct specular, and your animation will finish in 24hrs instead of 24 days.

[@petersaikko]

This made my day. Great guide. Used Maya some years ago with Mental Ray but got lost with Arnold.

[@animationpandemic]

Boy, Mental Ray does bring back memories.

[@aakashvishwakarma7275]

that's very helpful thank you😀

[@sounakkundu6106]

Thank you, It's just work !!👍👍🙏

[@animationpandemic]

Enjoy!

[@jonnomurf]

Thanks so much!

[@animationpandemic]

You're welcome!

[@caiwei6895]

thanks! it helps me a lot

[@animationpandemic]

Glad it helped!

[@gonzalez_larrondo]

THANKS

[@georgerk7922]

i amazed a lot when i realize that we can gain better result in rendering without sacrificing a lot of time.. Thank you for this tutorial!!! this kind of thing will very useful for me!!!

[@animationpandemic]

I am glad it was helpful!

[@berraerkan2825]

thanks a lot

[@animationpandemic]

You're welcome!

[@Ridewidmee]

Thank you man wasted so much time on this n finally got solution here

[@animationpandemic]

I wasted a lot of time on it, too ;)

[@BillyJackman3D]

Thanks for the help! Long story short Indirect lighting is the big offender.

[@animationpandemic]

Indirect is a nice but generally expensive feature in renders.

[@betogaona3d.]

Thank you, thank you thank you..........thank you

[@animationpandemic]

Welcome!

[@pradhumansoni5000]

Very informative video sir. Can you please make a video on how to do composition of maya animation in nuke to looks great

[@animationpandemic]

Thanks, I am planning to do that

[@doraemonlifehacksjapanese]

Hello sir great tutorial but as I reduce the indirect clamp value all my lights become dull in maya 2022, can you pls help me.

[@losaminos59]

Sub! Do you have video that shows how are you doing your comp process in Nuke, how to do render passes and generating mattes from Maya?

[@user-mu8ok5xf8d]

what if you have fireflys that aren't coming from the direct or indirect

[@Conceptsofsanket]

Can you make a tutorial with the standard lights in maya .. an Exterior lighting just with that

[@animationpandemic]

Hi, sorry it took forever to answer. I am doing one in Unreal Engine! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXKnk36werp5n7c

[@user-xy4bs1nm3k]

Ummm if you just want to see your animation rendered, don't even render with Indirect Diffuse and Specular ( and set those samples to 1, nothing more helps but it will still take longer ). Those can be faked, and your render will go 10 times faster. Indirect is a really expensive luxury if all you want to see is your anim. Toy Story 1 & 2 were obviously rendered without any Indirect lighting or bounces. I had to render an entire feature length movie with just a small render farm, this is what I had to do.

[@Silas237]

Do you know where/if you can enable adaptive sampling in Maya 2018 render settings? I can't find it anywhere and it's not coming up on any searches. Thankyou for the video!

[@animationpandemic]

I am not sure that you can do so in Maya 2018, unfortunately. I never tried it on that version.

[@user-lp3qw1pj6g]

Howw rendering this in video?

[@nikoulph]

Your help is gold. But the software is a killing creativity machine

[@animationpandemic]

Yes, I do not recommend working with Arnold. Great renders, but overkill render times.

[@TheFiftyGangsta]

@@animationpandemic which render would you recommend for let’s say a 2 minute student film, which can be learned in a short time?

[@animationpandemic]

@@TheFiftyGangsta at this stage I'd try go real time, either with Unreal, or Blender's Eve. However, if you have just a few days until the deadline, and some experience with rendering in Maya, you should try Redshift.

[@TheFiftyGangsta]

@@animationpandemic alright thank you. I’ll check out Unreal and eve. It’s around 4 weeks till the deadline actually with approximately 1 week time left to rendering. Redshift seems interesting but very pricey at 500$. Do you know of a student version of some kind?

[@animationpandemic]

@@TheFiftyGangsta account for about 2-3 weeks of getting used to the software, if you switch to Blender/ Unreal. Make sure you set up the scene for render and have some renders done already at least two week 2 before deadline at the latest, even if the animation isn't there. You'll encounter all sort of trivial issues, when you move to a new software.

[@crimsonBen]

dumb question, but what is that "indirect" in the "visibility-tab" for?

[@animationpandemic]

Not dumb at all. As far as I understand, that slider controls the contribution of the light to the "indirect" component of the light (that is the bounces the light does after it first hit any surface). That's my understanding, however. The documentation explains it may be better: docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFMUG/Lights#Lights-Indirect

[@DaBagelSquad]

This guy: this renders in 59 seconds! So slow! Me, on my laptop: this will render in 59 hours on the lowest settings!

[@animationpandemic]

Speed it up with Unreal Engine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXKnk36werp5n7c 😜😜😜

[@hmpbs6679]

what do i do if my fireflies are not showing in the difuse_indirect?

[@animationpandemic]

Try checking in specular, reflection, and/or transmission.

[@hmpbs6679]

@@animationpandemic they only appeared in emission. I got rid of those lights and made new ones and that worked

[@Deezsirrer]

Don't yall watch movie breakdown. Does maya not support render layers? Why would you render the whole material/textures/shading all at once?!

[@gergolaky3624]

wow this was a litearal waste of my time