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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Robots
Ratatoile..
Could anyone of you hassee's suggest films along these lines or even shorts, I haven't seen too many as I was turned off by a few of them, but Rango really impressed me as did Wall-e (Good story I think).
So fire away.
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Non-pixar that I enjoyed: Meet the Robinsons, Over the Hedge, Despicable Me, Chicken Little, Dragon Hunters (french)
Some films with more realistic animation that I thought were well done: Legend of the Guardians, Final fantasy: spirits within, Beowulf
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Weak plot, sweet visuals, stiff and safe characters, the voice talent was wasted (Steve Buscemi especially, since I enjoy his stuff). I liked Beowulf, Ice Age, Kung Fu Panda, Up, Megamind (really liked that one) and Tangled wasn't bad either.
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Rango is way up there, The Incredibles for me is the best movie out of Pixar followed by Ratatouille and Toy Story movies. I did like How to Train Your Dragon and of course the very first Shrek (the others are so so). Tangled was okay too, more technically but still a good watch. Best 2d animated for me of recent years was Belleville Rendezvous.
Good technically but poorly excuted/dull or whatever would include FF, Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda (Ive tried so many times to watch and like it, its just not there) ICe Age films are just getting lower down the list despite the first one being okay. Things like Bee Movie, Megamind , happy feet and so on just dont have that 'pull' for me to even attempt to even be bothered to watch them on Blu Ray let alone even go to the cinema....
But the worst to come out of Pixar has just gotta be Cars 1 and 2, why, just why??? What the hell was Lasseter thinking??
Edit: I think for me the biggest prob is that the Market is so saturated with 3d animated films that my love for them has disappeared. I remember years back before the 'storm' that a Pixar movie was always something to look forward to with my girls, but now we all just roll our eyes. Unless its something to make a fuss about like ILMs Rango then we just arent bothered, it has to have spectacle to draw us in.
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Jay, I don't know how you can't like Wall-E... it's not my favorite Pixar, but it's in the top half. I thought the story, visuals, character and emotion were all there. And it pushed the envelope. How many other movies can you name where a sound designer is the first cast member? But this is opinion time, so I respect that.
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hehe dont get me started on Wall-E, once the junk yard sequence finishes that was it for me, it was just weird with the human characters - almost out of place...it went nowhere fast for me. I dont think it pushed any envelope -just my patience
Sound designer wise, someone had to do it and it was Ben Burtt, an old work colleague of my Dads in fact from when he worked on Star Wars back in the day (not the new ones) sorry just had to name drop there LOLJay
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