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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Frankie is rigged
Maybe I should rename my thread to "Everything BUT Maya"
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I feel the character is neither, cartoon or realistic - its kind of lost somewhere between. I think you need to examine facial expressions in the mirror as whats going on here isnt doing it any favours.
Sorry if my comments are negative but its all I see right now and so the fact its rigged is kinda moot for me.
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Do you find the c4d stuff more intuitive? I know maya has its fair share of nodes in there to do different stuff - the prob is knowing the full uses
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C4d Shader
Pretty much the entire material editor is split off into sections and then you can build a layer in that and stack your shaders and effects. The problem is that there is not much documentation on this stuff and finding it takes time to find scene files either in c4d itself or on the forums to deconstruct what people or Maxon have already built. Tutorials don't even help me nowadays... The SSS also only got to the point of accepting GI this build. I try and do everything through the physical renderer and not Vray simply because of the hair. Vray is great if your dude is bald...
Probably the biggest difference I noticed with my work was when I began to create things at scale. Once I did that and baked about 4 maps out of xNormal or Zbrush things began to get much better looking. But the c4d community for the most part understand "zilch" about topology and UVing and you will never get really good stuff with procedurals...
Below is a drawover that I have mocked up for the facial hair. Been working on my F117 and F18 today trying to get them UV'd...
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The Octopus is obviously done in ZBrush while the hard surface is done C4D.
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