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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The short La Luna was great, but I didn't think it was one of their best, there are others that I enjoyed more.
As for the movie, it was funny, beautiful, exciting and splendidly entertaining. Okay, I didn't cry, so maybe it doesn't have as much emotional depth as Up, for example, but I hardly use that as a criterion.
If you want to see it, do it soon so other people don't spoil things for you. Pixar did a fantastic job of not giving away much of the story in the trailers.
The new sound system is pretty cool, it's very immersive. There was a little tech demo before hand which was neat. The 3D was well done, better than typical, but I still can't love it. Motion blur and cross-fades just don't work. Time to change the cinematic conventions when the technology changes. But that hair simulation 0_0 !!! And the character animation, just perfect. It doesn't get better.
Final thought, I noticed in the credits that although there was mention of Marionette engineers, at the end it said Animated with Presto, and after I looked it up, it sounds like Pixar has overhauled their software and are calling it Presto now, after the short. I wonder if they will commercialize it as they've done with Renderman?
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