Sampling Materials and Light in Arnold to Maya - Thorough and Short Tutorial
The most common mistake is to increase Camera AA to improve the sampling/noise of a scene. While it seemingly works best, it could be taxing, extremely sometimes. The ideal way is to investigate our materials first, then we make our call on what to boost in the material sampling. Wait there's more, Light sampling!
You can research other topics if you wish to dig deeper, such as Denoisers, GPU Vs CPU rendering, Plug-ins...etc.
Intro: 00:00
Arnold MATERIAL Render Sampling attribute 00:30
Meaning of Sampling attributes 02:00
Sampling in Rendering and Navigating Arnold Renderer 04:00
Investigating Sampling Using AOVs 09:00
LIGHT Sampling 10:00
Shadow Deactivation 14:40
