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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Feel free to critique as much as you want. Please don't go easy. I appreciate compliments, but telling me that you like my artwork doesn't help me improve it any.
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The iceberg was all made in Vue. It needs to be tweaked as it looks too cartoony. A foreground element is required as the scale is not clear.
There are some projects for my internship that I won't be able to post until they are finished and my director gives me permission. I'm also currently working on a freelance project, which I will hopefully be able to finish up and post soon.
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28-04-2012
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My website;
https://www.eyellem.com
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/martin-van-stein/42/a81/b82
Yoda post;
https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...highlight=yoda
Indiana Jones Post;
https://srv01.simply3dworld.com/showt...threadid=29188
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It's hard to say anything without textures. Are you doing a visualisation course?
Iceberg looks flat and too dark in the shadows.
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"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes
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In the reference or the render?I feel like the outside of the room is possibly too blue
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murambi, when it's closer to being finished I'll render a few more shots. In the mean time, check out this topic:
https://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36395
honestdom, Maxwell was my choice because I wanted a more physical rendering engine. It was incredibly simple to set up and the multilight feature is really fun! Unfortunately there isn't any metadata. I don't know how much closer I'll be able to match the camera angle because of the distortion from the camera lens. One of the things I worked on the longest was trying to match up the angle, but I finally decided that I should probably be using more time creating the scene! And no, I'm not taking a course. This is a personal project.
Completely agree with you about the iceberg! The material needs to be tweaked, especially with the SSS.
stwert, thanks! I will look into the water being like that.
bullet1968, thank you! I know what you mean by the scale. The modeling is definitely not finished for this project.
Thanks for the help guys! These will be added to my to do list. Hopefully I'll get a chance to work on my personal projects soon.
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Definitely have not forgotten about you guys, just been a bit busy. I mostly just read on the forums and don't post much unless I feel it is necessary. Here's my latest personal project, all done in modo (as well as the reference photo):
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13-07-2012
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Maya has a adequate basic polygon tool set, I'd like to see better falloffs, some improvements to things like the bevel tool, support for background constraints which could be just improving make live such that you can push geometry onto live geo, some retopo tools, etc.
My feeling on Maya's nurbs and subd's are that they have been included as some kind of "marketing team bait and switch". The tool sets for both are very limited and for nurbs have become so buggy that they are almost unusable! The round and fillet tools are in a word "disgraceful".
It's like autodesk and even alias before them have just thrown in the towel on even maintaining the modeling tools in maya let alone improving and growing them! It feels as an outsider looking in like there is some poor intern named Bob that has been assigned as the entire modeling development "team".
I started jumping back and forth between modo for tricky modeling and surfacing tasks over a year ago and it was initially like 90% maya and 10% modo but lately my modeling has been 50/50 and when I get the recently added nurbs and subd addon for modo I will probably cross over and be doing most of my modeling in modo.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675
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I have finished my midterm reel. Here is the link:
https://vimeo.com/47183736
My senior midterm review was last night and I was given some critique. The rest of this letter contains that critique so that you know what was already said and what my plans are for the next four and a half weeks (until my final review). The mountains and iceberg were made in Vue and the interior and exterior are done in modo. I was told to show wireframes for all of my shots.
Mountains shot:
•Show the layers/passes
•Make the trees smaller
•Render out planes for foreground, middle ground, background, then composite and animate to create parallaxing
Interior shot:
•Lights come on too slow
•Fix smoothing of objects
•Show close up shots of props
•Use depth passes
•Use some camera movement
•Split reflection, shadow, specular, etc. passes
For both the interior and exterior I was told to show the reference images (but label them as reference so that people are not confused). The iceberg shot is going to be trimmed off. Instead of working further on the iceberg I will be making this watch instead:
https://www.amazon.com/Akribos-XXIV-A.../dp/B0033WTDNW
I have watchmaker's screwdrivers, so I will be taking it apart and modeling all the little pieces and then animating it. If you have any critique, please be honest and tell me what I should do!
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