Introducing Maya® 2011

Motion Blur

Motion blur is an optical phenomenon that occurs when an object moves fast in front of a camera: the object looks blurred as it crosses the frame. Maya Software rendering renders out motion blur in two ways—2D blur or 3D blur—although neither will render as reflections:

• In the 2D blur process, Maya calculates after the frame is rendered. Any objects moving in the frame are blurred with a 2D filter effect. The 2D blur is effective for most applications and faster than 3D blur.
• The 3D blur process is calculated while a frame of the sequence is rendering. Every motion-blur-enabled object is blurred with typically better results than 2D blur, but at a cost of a much longer render time.

We’ll briefly cover motion blur in mental ray for ...