Solar Power
We’ve done a couple large Solar Power videos to help show off proposed installations, and help to win bids. We usually get the models shown, but they take a lot of cleanup and remodeling to make them lighter weight, or have more needed detail, or to make them animatable. For the power plant, there was a lot of model cleanup and material work was needed.
In one video we had numerous solar fields of various types, with tens of thousands of photovoltaic and hundreds of curved solar arrays. It was a challenge to manage the models and keep the polygons as light as possible so that the scenes loaded quickly and rendered fast. The above shows different areas highlighted in colors. A b/w satellite image was used as a background and as part of a flight to the remote location.
The curved solar panels are animated to follow the sun in the video we produced.
Above is the final video for the client, and to the right is a rendering test we did on a different project.
This segment was a test done with Iray instead of mental ray.