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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Hopefully will have made up my mind and made a start sometime today....
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I'm going to build a cartoon Skateboarder, complete with skateboard, a scene for him to skate in, animate him doing a couple of tricks and finishing with him slamming onto his face.
I'm going to build him as basic as possible so the rigging can be simplified, still not sure if I'll manage it all but I'm sure it'll be fun trying!
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Trying to work out ways of getting it quite detailed, but with minimal stress in the rigging and painting weights stage, hopefully that'll work out....lol!
Here's where he's up to at the moment, head done, onto his body next....
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I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, but as always I couldn't help myself and kept going until he looked semi decent.
Chances are I'll put so much time into creating the character and the scene it won't be animated at all by the end of the year! lol
I'll do my best though.
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So added some hair to sort it out!
The SSS shader will probably be scrapped and replaced with just a painted texture as the render times would be upped a bit too much once the whole thing is animated, but will see how it goes.
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Cheers Steve, yeah will probably go down that route as it'll all be animated. So that should speed things up a bit, just trying to plan everything so it's as quick and easy to render as possible, and still looks alright.Originally posted by gster123
Cool! You can get away with SSS by using a good blinn shader, faster to render too mate.
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And if its a 30 second short and it adds say 5 seconds per frame, thats an hours render time extra for only very little gain.
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Was doing a little test to see how he'll behave when rigged, and without doing any weight painting yet it's going quite well.
Although in this pose he looks a little Zombie-like.....lol
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And I guess as it's a cartoon character they don't have to be exact anyhow.
Just the trainers to do and I'll probably move onto his skateboard and the environment.
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My first cartoon human is pretty much completed!
Infact my first biped of any sort really!
Was quite fun doing the trainers, not tried them before, or footware of any kind.
Am looking forward to getting him rigged and moving now, but I'll be patient and get all the rest of the modelling done first, I want to do each section of the process without straying onto anything else like texturing etc.
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I've already built a mini ramp for one of the clips but need to build the surrounding background for it.
The polycount for the skater and the completed board came out as around 9600, so I'm figuring if I can manage to keep the scenes at under 20000 I'll have no problems with rendering and can possibly add in some more maya hair or fur to use as grass, or some paint effects plants. I'll have to see how it goes.
I've now come up with an idea for after this little challenge so will be extending the whole animation afterwards. Hopefully by quite a bit making it a short. I have an opening sequence I want to do that isn't actually skating. And an idea for an ending, all of which could push it to spending a few months making it a full length short. Fingures crossed that all works out!
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