Yes, dvlenk, I've been perusading myself of that. just go for speed and good general shadows with the Max scanline render engine, as fast as possible for animation. Then apply these desaturation and grain effects in AfterEffects. Voila!

Can anyone answer this: can a render engine take advantage in any way of grayscale over rgb? In otherwords, can it be triggered into dealing only with shades of black/white and thus process faster? Might seem trivial, but to an animator the saving of a few seconds on a frame can turn out to be significant. I fight for every second.

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