Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Lamp Guy
here's a quick render of a little character I've made, I'm not sure where I'm headed with him but at least it's a step out of the inspirational doldrums that I've been stuck in for the past couple of weeks.
Take it easy,
Mat.
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i think you could really make somethin fun with this guy. maybe make a whole family or something.
as far as the model is concerned. . .he just needs a few more features to help bring him more to life. some eyebrows, maybe make the filament squiggly so it looks like his hair, and then some kind of a mouth.
i like his texture. . .not sure what you could do with that. maybe lighten it a bit. and the little thing at the bottom. . .i have seen those in different colors. so maybe give that a look as well.
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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice!!
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glad you have some inspiration . only crit i have is model kinda hard to see i guess needs more light in background and maybe that will bring out features of the model. But i love the idea .... and looks good as far as that
i love how the light bulb looks so real and clear ..would be neat to see some of the filiment lite
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Anm8or, I've been having a dilemma about the mouth and I'm still not sure. The eyebrows on the other hand is exactly what he needs, they will definately be added for character.
13th_resident, it's the first one for a while, cheers!!!
mmoore, I agree about the render, it sucks!! I'll get another one sorted shortly. The filament is going to glow and shed light, it's all part of the rig that I've been putting together.
I've been pretty bogged under with university work recently (it's what you get for leaving it all till the last minute!!) but it's easing off now so progress on him should speed up a bit.
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wooho it will glow ..
good luck on school also. cant wait to see the progress
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Here's a lighter render (still quick and nasty I'm afraid). I've added some eyebrows, Groucho Marx/Eugene Levy style!
I've pretty much finished rigging the bottom half of him now, I need to set up the set driven keys on the hands after which I'll deal with the filament, eyebrows and eyes.
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kinda the same idea as this pic:
https://static.highend3d.com/galleryi...703/screen.jpg
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I've finally found time to finish rigging him, I've attached a picture of the skeleton 'cos I'm pretty damned proud of it! It's the first time I've designed and built a rig without following a guide, his arms and legs are IK FK switchable, he has no flip knees and elbows, his feet have a reverse foot set up, all the FK controls are limited, and his fingers are all set driven. I've attached a point light to the brightness controller along with glow and incandesence on the filament shader, phew!
I'll render out a couple of quick poses and post them shortly.
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Looking forward to updates.
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, how do you make that light controller? i wish i could rig like that
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I'm pretty happy with him as he is (for now), so I think I'll be leaving him without a mouth.
The controllers are made from nurb primative squares and circles, the circles have limits put on them so that they can't be moved out of the square. Then you use set driven keys to control whatever attributes you need to control with the controller. I think I may have confused matters there, sorry!
Here's the render I promised, take it easy,
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