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 wasted most of it trying to mask out another student to kill but to no avail, they just keep on running in front of each other creating problems with rotoscoping, PAH!
I gave up in the end and decided to utilise the light spill and grading tutorials that Farbtopf kindly pointed to.
HERE'S the fruits of my labour (right click and save). Despite the quality of the image there should be some discernible difference to the previous vid.
I'm stuck as to what to do for the killing spree bit at the end! If only a couple of other students had fallen over and pretended to be dead, always in hind sight eh!
Arran: I had to check out the source footage to make sure that I hadn't done something crazy to the lads top half but that's how it is in there too, MUTANT!
Neo: I've done some more animation to the skeleton in Maya, it follows the student much better now.
Anyway, all of your thoughts are, as usual, much appreciated.
Cheers,
Mat.
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"May I complement on the spectacular acting abilites of your fellow students...?"
lol yeah ... :p
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The final shot is a tricky one to sort. I had a thought about adding a virtual cam track to 1st add a little drama but mainly to help re-direct the audience attention away from the victims in the crowd. This way you can vaporise someone and pan to opposite side and shoot again.
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espeically when people get vaperised into thin air, nice ...
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man you are kicking arse
I dig the way the saucer seems to be itself alive (then there is the cabin).., great imagination mate. seems thats what its all about once you have the skills, and you got 'em!grading is another skill that will come when needed, the skills just keep coming..,
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before 2 weeks ago I had never touched After Effects, posting on forums and getting crit for your work really helps you progress. People always point out worth while tutorials too, the one that Farbtopf posted about light spill is a real winner!
I still need to do a bunch of work on this and my Computer Animation project (doesn't that needs to be submitted pretty soon, better get my skates on!)
Good luck with your stuff, I'd be interested to see what you've got so far.
Mirek: thanks for the compliments, I've still got a long way to go though!
Take it easy,
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it said 'site under construction' but the lettering was a glow green so it wasn't a complete waste of time
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it's been a while since my last post but I've pretty much got this one finished now. The soundtrack is definately a work in progress (half an hour and the sounddogs website later!!).
Mirek, I've still not got round to finishing my website proper, you can still access the hair and fur mini site through the link though, I just really use it as a dump for large images or videos.
RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE (a pretty hefty 6.8Meg) to see the video. Apologies for the quality but you should get the idea.
Any thoughts and crit are always gratefully recieved,
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