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These videos are really pleasant to watch. All of the visual elements, the weirdness, and the music selections come together in an almost hypnotic way.
I did a test animation with the free Laughing Santa animation ThreeDigital gave away as a PA freebie. I still have a lot of work to do on my film compositing skills. Merry Christmas everyone!
that's lovely KnittingMommy
Thanks! New skill for me, figuring out how to get the text to run across the screen like that. I was throughly impressed with myself when I managed that. :)
We all had to start out at some point when learning animation. I think your doing just fine
Cute santa 
Thanks. There are defnitely issues with it, but I'm proud of myself. I definitely need more practice. I think being able to use filament for test animations at the very least is great because this was 300 frames and it took practically no time to render at all. It would have taken forever to render with Iray and even 3Delight would have taken a long time on my system. With filament, I can actually render out the animations fairly quickly so I can learn new skills, both in Daz Studio and in HitFilm.
That is great @Knittingmommy a little practice is really all it takes to learn animations. you'll fine little tricks to help you speed up and improve your work flow. you'll find its a lot of fun like putting a puzzle together.
And I would not be so quick to dismiss Iray just yet... Because once you been practicing long enough, you'll learn to optimize your animated scene even if you decide sticking with using filament. I started out with 3delight . I tried octane renderer for a while but i always seem to come back to iray. I just like the results of the iray renders. Filament is just to new there is not enough shader or other accoutrements & tools to make it viable for me to use it for short stories at this time. when my latest animation I am working on is 300,000 plus keyframes
But filament has been great for me to mess with. But I'm like most every one else here. I. do not have a budget to buy huge gpu graphic cards, I'm still using just a pair of old gtx 1080ti's, I can't afford $1500+ for a new rtx cards. so the in the future filament maybe what I will be using for animation as well. hopefully, by that time there will be better shader and work around for transparency maps avilable.. I know sickl yield has been working on hair shaders and filament hair skull caps, so its just going to take some time for all that filament stuff to catch up to where iray is.
But learning to optimize your scenes with tricks, like bill boards for back ground scenes. removing or reducing textures you don't need is a good skill to learn no matter what render engine you use.
But for now with the lack of tools and other content that would help make filament easier to set up, then that may change things for me.. because right now prep-work setting up a scenes take as much work in filament as it does iray and I can get Iray to render as fast as filament with out all the drama of daz studio crashing every time i hit he viewpoint preview. or change out a shader to make the filament renders look better. so that is the only reason i continue using iray for now.
Like you said Filament is prefect render engine to practice those animation skill. But for me as unstable as filament is in daz studio and the incredible lacking of filament shaders and transparency map conversions for hair maps glass water etc.etc. its not very practical for me to use it in short story animation. not when i am getting 12 seconds a keyframe or faster with iray for complex scenes like below.
Best of luck I look forward to seeing what you can do :)
Check out my iray test scenes used for set up times for my new Karate girl film.
Yukina from Bandori and it rendered in literally seconds tho it changed so many colors
I'm bringing out the pitchforks.
I think 2020 needed a shovel
exploring some of the sets I grabbed in PC+ sale
it's always good for a quick 4K video as long as you avoid stuff with cutout opacity
I find filament is useful for getting me a really fast scenery render I can then postwork the hell out of.
And just like that, the thread returned...
I edited the title to be less offensive
the detractors seem to have moved on
...or finaly realised using it is not compulsory
I have actually uploaded lots of Filament videos to Youtube, often postworked, I often render light bulbs separately and add glow and flares etc in post
the fact it easily does 4K images videos is an added bonus, you don't want to try that in iray unless cooking your GPU over a few days your desire
4K video with Mr Woo HD addon I bought today subdiv3 in viewport
Last month I discovered in my DAZ 19: Filament, sometime works good:
are new Filament options to explore besides toon
there is Bloom and lens flares
and the Filatoon shader includes ambience you can add to flames
only used Bloom not lens flares here
my old scenes missing many things from the drive that died including M3 second skins I polypainted in Zbrush, just tiled fabric shaders for now
the finished video
Early days, so many settings to explore but he glow shader helps enormously
(not emissive, needs a point light like 3Delight but huge improvement)
Very nice, @Wendy
Good to see, that there are some other possibilities with FilaToon renders.
I especially like how easy is to get multi-figure scenes without the excessive time of rendering.
I only used the Filatoon shader for the candle flames, otherwise it's regular iray Uber
the thing is, I never could do glow in Filament before but that shader unlocks that functionality
I hate Shadermixer but may need to delve into it again and explore this one if it's possible as it might unlock a few other functions missing in Filament which indeed I like using for speed
another non toon but also non PBR video
mmmm. I need to upload the txt file of those lyrics because the closed captioning is butchering it
Ok, so that opens up fast rendering of the scenes, even without converting all materials to FilaToon.
Great idea. I also have noticed that sometimes materials looks better without conversion.
Another great video, as well.