How to view the final animation product

[ilovelessons]

Hi,

I have created a small animation where semi circle transforms into a full circle. Here is my issue -

1. When it slowing turning into a semi-circle to a circle the edges are NOT smooth they are instead polygons trying to imitate a circle.
2. I have heard in some tutorials it may not actually look like that (instead it will be smooth in the final animation product).

How to you view what your final animation will look like before you save or export it? I have been looking through the menu for such an option and I haven't seen anything.

Can someone please help. In return I'll spin straw into gold or give you my first born

Thanks.

[Greenlaw]

That' sounds normal for the workspace preview. Does is still do this in an actual rendering? It should be smoother when you render the animation.

[ilovelessons]

Well to be honest I have the demo version, so they disabled the EXPORT functions. I assume you can only Render when you are exporting?

Thanks.

[Greenlaw]

Ctrl-R will render a single full quality frame. I think the demo will render full quality animations for the first 30 days, but after that I guess it stops until you purchase a full licenese key.

Anyway, Ctrl-R should still work. (sorry, I'm not 100% sure about that--don't have the demo installed here to check.)