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 know it'd probably make sense to learn with something with a few less limbs than this, but I've been practising on simpler objects and thought, sod it, why not.
Have the skeleton built, and skinned, going to start studying painting weights now and see how it goes, here's my rig so far, all the local rotations have been checked and tested, and all the joint naming done, so seems ok so far!
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the controls are just there with parent constraints and custom attributes
i think the regular way is to do the controls first, so then you can adjust the skeleton as you're painting weights instead of having to find the bone and twist and stuff
so....
if you have the control for the hand, and you've given it finger attributes that curl the fingers then after binding you can just adjust that control instead of finding the bone...
i think maybe it would have a clearer effect on a larger more complex skeleton...
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Painting weights is going to take a while to get used to and as I'm in the right frame of mind to learn it I may as well concentrate on that. Already got the back end working pretty good, and the shoulder well on it's way, so hopefully it won't take too long before I can have him walking about and picking a fight with Chirone's eyeball guy!....lol!
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haha... that's what I'm talking about!Originally posted by Dango77
[B...won't take too long before I can have him walking about and picking a fight with Chirone's eyeball guy!....lol! [/B]
Looks really good man. I can't believe your onto the rigging already. My models rarely make it past the sculpting stage... once I'm done sculpting, I ask myself... "take it back to Maya and rig it.. OR .. grab some Zspheres and do another sculpt?... :nod:
anyway, nice work!
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I was very tempted to start another, but it was just too good an opportunity to learn some stuff I haven't touched on yet!
He's by no means ready but couldn't resist posing him in a jump pose.... Excuse the crappy deforms on his neck, not done that part yet...lol
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yeah, my dude just has to learn to walk first :pOriginally posted by Dango77
hopefully it won't take too long before I can have him walking about and picking a fight with Chirone's eyeball guy!....lol!
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Thanks man, I was going for a kind of comic/serious look cross. I didn't think I was good enough yet to do something full on proper looking, so tried to add a bit of Marvel style comic book humour to it, hope it worked! Haha
Chirone:
I wouldn't worry, mines just crawling at the moment.... But soon..... lol
Coldwave:
I'd been thinking the same things you have mentioned, the skin does have a lot of brown in it at the moment, but you can only really see it when it's close up, may try adding some blood/veins to him, and will do some texturing to the claws, and the teeth at some point too.
Cheers for the ideas!
I'm wanting to get some practice on rigging and animation done with him, but move onto another character to try and get my texturing and modelling better.
Hopefully I'll just get better with each model I do, I've learnt quite a bit from this one, so I'm looking forward to taking that knowledge on to the next one!
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