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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I will be modeling a few of the heads, and a portion of the slope of the volcano. This inlcudes the grasses, and trails that surround the giant heads.
I hope I haven't bit off more than I can chew for this project.
Fund a Youtube link to show a good refference as to how big they are
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Anyway, this pic was just a small test so there is nothing really special about it.
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Just thinking that you might be able to get away with just a texture coupled with a bump for the further away parts, Also I wouldbe tempted to use fur over paint FX as mental Ray renders that, you can use various maps to control the colours, legnth, baldness etc etc. More efficient thant converting to polys.
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Guess the grass is going to be the hardest thing to tackle.
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Think I would probably use fur though, be easier to control, I did a little test and it took 16 seconds to render a plane covered in fur ,and there was no lag on the screen.
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Tried out the maya fur for grass, and the render just didn't look as good as the poly grass from PaintFx did. It looked blown out, and void of any color reguardless of how I set the color attributes. Perhaps that is due to not having much experience in fur. I need a good tut to know how to use it or someones expertise in the area.
Anyway, here is a second grass render test from Paint FX. This time I modeled a decent base, and textured the ground plane.
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Started on the Moai head. I'm about half finnished with it so far. The chin, jaw line, and the nose need alot more work to match the refferences. For the other heas, I'm going to copy, and change them up a little so that they will not all look 100% identical.
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looks like you've made a good start on the moai head, though I think it needs to be a bit more elongated and rotated back - they tend to lean back - that's if you're keeping the same as the actual heads.
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LOL, yeah I know, my Moai needs to loose some major weight.
My wip still needs alot more work to better match the likeness of the Moai. Cheers for the C&C.
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Put my Moai on a serious diet lol, he's looking alot better now!
Anyway, made alot of progress on the head so far. The chin and Jaw line look alot closer to the real thing now, an I also made alot of progress on the nose also. I still have more to do but not much.
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