Comprehensive Guide to Denoising in Arnold for Maya

This is a comprehensive breakdown of denoising in Arnold for Maya, covering all the major methods for both single-frame and animation (multi-frame) denoising. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through:

🔹 Denoising Methods Covered:
✅ Arnold Render View denoising
✅ Terminal and command-line denoising (Mac & Windows)
✅ Arnold UI-based denoising in Maya
✅ IPR denoising with Open Image Denoise (OIDN)
✅ Light group AOV denoising

You'll learn when to use each method to maximize speed and quality for both still images and animations.

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Download the scene here:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/...

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Terminal/Command Line Code:

cd /path/to/noice/bin (ex. cd /Applications/Autodesk/Arnold/mtoa/2025/bin)

./noice -i "/path/to/input_file.exr" \
-o "/path/to/output_file_denoised.exr" \
-fe N -fe P -fe denoise_albedo_noice \
-l RGBA -l RGBA_lightgroup1 -l RGBA_lightgroup2 \
-sr 6 -v 1.0
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More Arnold Denoising Resources:
📖 Autodesk Denoise Documentation:
🔗 https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/...

📖 Autodesk Denoise User Guide:
🔗 https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/...

Other Arnold Denoising Tutorials:
▶️    • Arnold Tutorial - How to use denoising in ...  
▶️    • Arnold Tutorial - Denoising a sequence of ...  
▶️    • Denoise with Arnold (NOICE) in Maya  
▶️    • Denoise with OptiX™ in Maya  

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Scene Breakdown
02:01 - Noice Denoising - Single Frame (Arnold Render View/Imager)
04:39 - Noice Denoising - Single Frame (Arnold Render View/Imager) | Light Groups
15:38 - Noice Denoising - Multiple Frames (Method 1: Terminal/Command Line)
21:03 - Noice Denoising - Multiple Frames (Method 1: Terminal/Command Line) | Light Groups
27:15 - Noice Denoising - Multiple Frames (Method 2: Arnold Top Menu/UI)
30:50 - Noice Denoising - Multiple Frames (Method 3: Straight Batch/Imager - Don't use this method)
33:55 - OIDN - IPR Denoising

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