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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From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"
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Now ... when can we expect the next frame of Outlaws ... (or the movie!!)
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Gen: Great question. I would honestly say it depends on the model type. Single Organic surfaces are a no brainer and generally lead themselves to being one object, ie: full body characters, creatures etc. Hardsurfaced models can be a combo of either all in one or a single mesh/objects approach. But on saying that, yes, approach it as if it were the real deal in some cases, its easier to control model wise and it can be more convincing as a result for a realistic looking model, to have all the hard edges have nice bevels etc to get that nice ping from the scenes lighting. I wouldnt want to be chasing loops around all day on a single object to get bevelled edges on just one mesh, it would be time consuming and also chasing out pointless loops too wouldnt be too good either just to terminate edges etc.
Do I duplicate faces or create a new primitive?...I do both. and again its purely down to being situation dependant, if things need to fit exactly then its a dupe face or whether an entirely different shape is needed, could be more spherical or cylindrical so whatever is easiest and quickest to produce said piece.
The bike with the huge flywheel was a scanned model from the lifesized model. I had both at hand, but the scan was awful and had holes in on the reflected parts like bolts and chrome and therefore destoyed the rest of the model around it in parts so I was out in the props area alot over a week and a half time frame measuring every individual part of the bike on the gimbal rig so it was bang on when it came to the final model, I even modelled the creases in the seat leather lol. But I'd say 95% of it was composed of separate pieces.
hope that answers that for you
mark_slw: A new page...would love to, there is one half done but I had to stop doing it. A movie you say? I cant say anything Im afraid.
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Rick: Thanks mate, hahah you're as bad as me...need to see a wire!! need to see a wire! I checked out that link you sent me on skype. Impressive work. The uvs are as I would expect them to be. He had clearly increased the tiling for the u and v so the map repetition was increased to get rid of the stretching, but otherwise all good stuff. He works at MPC, but not sure if its the one here in London or the Vancouver studio.
Gen: hehe no worries, its just down to preference at the end of the day and whats going to be quicker and more efficient for you. Generally once you are in the studio, and as long as the job is done correctly and looks like what it should then the supervisors wont bat an eyelid as to your preffered method of modelling. Its horses for courses
Tweety: Thanks for the kind words. I hope you enjoyed what you saw mate!!
Dave: Yes the stuff Genny mentioned is pretty much, but as I explained its what will work for you at the end of the day providing the work is done correctly. Yes the Titanic gantry was a challenge. The left and right gantry parts were done once and flipped as you would to mirror it, but the middle part had to be done from scratch pretty much as its quite different. Also I was given bad measurements from the set pieces, the main problem being the ramp walkway, I was given the wrong angle of tilt and therefore it cause the ramp to be too steep and go thru the floor. They were adamant it was correct, but I screwed and told them otherwise, I then gave them the trigonometry measurement to work it out, height over distance and all that to get the angle of the ramp with a length of 15 feet or something to that effect. They did it and erm, I was right!! so....a few issues like that had to be ironed out. There were other probs with it but I wont bore the pants off you. Glad you like the model though, thanks
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