Test Render

Here is a render of one frame of my animation, in order to get a taste of the overall look of the animation. I noticed that the mountains do look snowy and that works very well but the ice still needs to be a little bit more reflective and look more like frosted glass. The HDRI snowy scene sky works well though and certainly adds to the overall feel of the animation.

The first time that I rendered this frame it took just two minutes but the snow simulation nparticles were not showing up in the Arnold render view. I did some research and found that setting an FX Instancer would work. Following this, I rerendered the same frame and saw that the render took over three hours and still didn't produce snow. I need to work more on figuring out the snow on anything to do with the render view. The three hour render is below and thankfully it contains very little noise and the lighting and texturing shows very well.

Next up is fixing the later shots.