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In this tutorial we conclude our robot series, by integrating our 3D model along with a photograph to create a complete scene within Maya. To achieve this we look at making a very fast character posing rig with HumanIK. This rigging method is intended for posing any humanoid character.

We continue with looking at how to export textures from Substance Painter and design the shader within Arnold. Here we cover displacement, normal mapping, reflectivity, metalness, and everything you need to get the detail that you had in Substance Painter into Maya.

From here we take a look at the photographic backing plate in Lightroom. We do some basic color correction, lens correction, and take a look at some of the meta data of the image. This allows us to match it the Maya camera later on.

Once we've imported our photographic backing plate into Maya we look at the basic lighting of the scene, matching the scene lighting with the lighting on the backing plate. After this we create geometry within Maya and match it to the backing plate. This is an essential part of the process allowing our geometry to capture the shadows coming from the lighting. You end up with a much more connected foreground and background image compared to taking one and overlaying it over the other.

Finally we look at posing the character, finalizing the lighting, and render settings in Arnold. We also look at rendering out AOVs (Arnold render passes) within a multi layered EXR.

There is a final bonus part of this tutorial, where we cover reassembling the image within Nuke and color grading to match the black and white values of our 3D render to our background plate. This will oftentimes give you a much more believable image.

We've included the scene files and textures for this tutorial. So if you haven't followed along with other robot tutorial volumes you can grab the scene and work along with us.

Other tutorials in this series

Complex UV Layout in Maya
Substance Painter
Hybrid Rigging - Robot Volume 02
Robot volume one - Modeling with animation in mind

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  • Length: 2 hours and 54 minutes
  • Software: Maya 2018
  • Format: 1080p HD
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Lesson Breakdown: You can watch this tutorial online

Intro Video Watch online now Part 1 - Creating a fast character posing rig with HumanIK Part 2 - Exporting our substance textures, and designing a shader for Arnold Part 3 - Continuing our Arnold shader, adding displacement, and starting the lighting Part 4 - Finalizing our shader. Test rendering with Arnold Part 5 - Creating a 3D scene to match our photographic environment Part 6 - Matching our 2D and 3D elements Part 7 - Using HumanIK to pose our character, final render settings Part 8 - Final render with AOVs, colour grade in Nuke

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