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Without a doubt, the best part of Arnold is the images it kicks out. The lighting gets so real that it can make great images with a minimal amount of effort. There is a lot of versatility from the Arnold Standard Shader which is nice so you don't have to worry about whether you have chosen a phong or a Blinn or whatever. Just go with the standard shader and adjust to get the look you want. It took me a little while to realize that reflectivity and specularity were connected, but it makes sense now that I understand. The physical sky light is very complete with lots of adjustments and using HDRI's to get even more realistic is very easy. Having worked with Mental Ray and other renderers, I have found that I can get better results with less set up time using Arnold. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are three things I dislike. First, render times can be lengthy. If you think about how Arnold handles light, calculating loads of bounces in a very realistic way, this makes sense. But that doesn't mean I have to like it. Second, from time to time, if you are not careful with your textures and render settings, you can get a "firefly" effect where it appears as if little sparkles are going off in your specularity areas. This happened to me recently when I was doing some architecture work, and leaves in the bushes were sparkling as the camera moved in front of them. I removed specularity on the leaves to fix the issue, but sometimes you want specularity, and then you have to work at it a bit, clamping values and such. Lastly, if you aren't careful in your lighting setup or render settings, you can create a lot of noise in your shadows. This is often fixed by increasing samples and render passes, but that can lengthen render times significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
20 out of 21 Total Reviews for Autodesk Arnold
The look and feel you can create in your renders using Arnold is unmatched. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Arnold, although a great renderer, is still very hardware-dependent and GPU rendering is still not there. It is very slow for low-end machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy configurability of shaders and render settings to obtain realistic and desirable results. Super user-friendly and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Realtime shading is an aspect which needs to be integrated into arnold better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The speed and accuracy is the key aspect of Arnold, with minimal noise and jitters, it gives you realistic imagery. I really like the HDRI rendering workflow,I really like AI_standard shader having all in one shading abilities to address look-dev. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes while taking renders with area-specific or cropped regions, it leaves unfinished renders but to clarify that we need to do a small portion of rendering anywhere on the screen.Secondly, sometimes, the rendering status keeps on rolling despite it has finished rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Autodesk Arnold is very user friendly, if you already know the terminology of CGI applications and rendering engines. Figuring out anything is easy. Arnold render layers are the best thing ever. Well organized and simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Well, there were times while accessing IPR, sometimes it doesn't respond. And sometimes, you won't see changes you made in the assets doesn't get rendered in the IPR right away. You'd have to stop the IPR and run it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer, I think it's the best thing in Arnold. I have tried this with one of our small projects. It turns out the output is excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think the amount of time it takes to render a single frame is a bit too much, But the end of the results, it's worth it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Autodesk arnold is verymuch useful for beginners to understand the concepts of rendering shading and lighting and there are so many tutorials available for them to explore arnold. The latest cpu and gpu combination of arnold makes it more user friendly too. It's a strong shading and render engine one of the industry standard render engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like arnold and it's most of the features but what I don't like is when ever new update come they will remove some of the old features and names. So it make hard to figure out the old feature in new. Otherwise I like arnold and I prefer to use that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
i like the PBR workflow in Physical accuracy in Arnold and recently added lightmix feature in arnold framebuffer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think they need to work on GPU rendering because there is lots of limitation in GPU rendering part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use Arnold Rendering interface and tools wise, And Rendering Result is fabulous you get it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't like its speed of rendering it takes a lot of time to render Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is effortless to understand what is the most fantastic thing about Arnold. Artists don't need to go through many tutorials to use it. We can quickly get the desired output because of PBR shaders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing much to dislike about Arnold. But if we could see the layer stack in the render view directly and the blending layers in it, it would be the most fantastic thing to try. We can see the whole image in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The lighting and renders are great. Also, it is faster than VRAY.
There aren't tons of settings to look after. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UI and material creation. A greater material library would be nice.
I hate the node system, so a clean basic material editor would be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
