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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21-10-2005
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making Final Fantasy-style characters
These are my problems:
1.) You cannot paint directly onto a polygonal surfaces but you can do that on nurbs surfaces. However I know nothing about nurbs and whenever i make a polygonal surface, I have to convert it to subdivs, then nurbs, and my computer is always slowed down. What should I do?
2.) ok I have Complete but not Unlimited, but theres gotta be something to do about hair. Should my hair be polygons? The problem with that is massive face counts come from smoothing the head object which includes the hair. Hair is supposed to be in individual locks. I do not want it to be clumped together and stagnant (this is not for a game!).
3.) The only problem with paint effects is hair. The hair looks neat, but its really hard to figure out what looks ok.
Sometimes its way to long, and sometimes certain sides of the hair are not as thick as the other. Theres so many tweaks for the paint effects that its going to take me hours to figure it out.
So, what can i do? You don't have to help me, but at least try to look at the pre rendered cgi from Final Fantasy 8-10. Its really just beautiful. They are so awe inspiring. That stuff is my dream, to one day do that stuff.
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23-10-2005
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from here you can either continue to refine in nurbs or
from that convert the mesh to polygons and start building from there, after a piece, depending on how you want the hair to look you can either start again with two curves and repeat the process or duplicate the existing mesh and begin editing.
best way to great an accurate fit on the head (hair) to build the curves on the head (use maya live, not sure if its avaliable in complete, but without it it may provide a little extra work)
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