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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Looking forward to see the final version of the animation!
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Contour lines would be nice but firstly me and mental ray dont go together (not yet anyway
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project i was thinking kung fu stick fight(a little like youres.)
I have 2 Q's and i would be a happy if anyone would awnser.
How do you guys do the head band?
I also ha va problem with the joints. When i bind the joint and when i for example pull a little at the knee joint it doesend bend i thut pulls and stuff like that. Not working obviously.
Im gonna post 2 pictures and want all the critismism you can tell me. I wanna know about the skelleton things i done wrong and wy its not working.
Normal skelleton(or not?)
If it doesnt work go to https://www17.brinkster.com/hiphopnet/sti_nr.jpg
fu.cked up skelleton(not working)
If it doesnt work go to https://www17.brinkster.com/hiphopnet/sti_nr.jpg
couldnt get the pictures to be (img) but you can juto go to them.
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The headband is really quite simple, its just a nurbs plane that has been wrapped around my characters head (see pic below)
And I think I know what you mean about the skeleton, I had a similar problem. Theres nothing wrong with the skeleton itself, the problem lies in your stickman. The joints have no verticles to act upon, so make sure you divide up your cilinder with the split poly tool at the place where your joints are located (see pic below)
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I was figuring about chopping as you said but didnt know it was possible but doeasnt a big gap come upa at the elbow then?
and the plane thing i was figuring something like that but dint know you could bend plane
Anyway thx a lot and good luck with youre movie....
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(you should check out the free vid tut on using the split poly tool here on this site) and thanks, the movie is comming along very well.
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could you post a link or something?
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The walking has overshooting, easy to fix. Go in the graph editor and make it so it doesn't exterpolate (it has large humps after where you ended your animation, but it tries to smooth it out... that causes overshooting, so level the top and bottom out is the easiest)
The timing is too fast/slow at times... Are you recording at 30 FPS? 60 FPS? Once you figure that out, then you should be able to do some math and figure out how long you want each animation to be.
If you are basing this off Kill Bill this is what I would do. Take a TV, put it by the computer and watch it as if it was a reference video, except it will be hard with special effects like glass and blood flying everywhere to see character smoothly, but that will definetely help out.
Start with basics and work your way up. Don't start doing all these fight scenes, unless you have a really good walk/run animation... Work one thing at a time, improve and keep going. If you want to get the timing and flow, then just do really rough animation... if you've ever seen an animatic to get the timing, it's like block guys sliding across the room... Do that if you want the timing.
It looks great though
Can't wait to see the finished product!
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and dont worry the fight scenes have not been started yet so there is still time to improve.This animation is not really based on Kill Bill, when I think kong-fu style film I think Kill Bill so thats where the idea for the name came from.
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nothing special
why the hell are black areas there?i cant understand that....
my shader is (from highend3d and) a consisting of a ramp with 3 colours .NONE of em is black....plus i have enough lights to erase that black so i dont understand it....
well i wait for rubberchicken after he comes back from holidays...
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