#Maya renderman tutorial series#

The only minor airbrushing is applied to the hair and feathers, and a couple small composite mask bleeds around the rock. It consists of a shader for arnold, vray and mental ray and a maya deformer. Using the user interface, the script enables the user to set up a bi-pedal character skeleton and rig in minutes, a process which can take up to several days. Final renders we created in Maya Mental Ray and composites in Photoshop. The rapid rig is a tool designed to bridge the gap between character modeling and character animation. Textures were started in Photoshop and finished in Zbrush and Cinema 4D Body Paint and are all hand painted. The models were started in Maya and finished in Zbrush.

#Maya renderman tutorial series#

I decided I finally wanted to wrap up this project so I spent a week wrapping it up and putting together renders for this composite. Unlock the secrets of Pixars RenderMan through a series of in-depth tutorials that focus on rendering an animation in Maya with photo-realistic materials. It took me down some rabbit holes between not having a strong enough computer to complete the sculpt at one point, obsessing over color detail from all angles thinking about maybe a 3D print or animated poster which lead to wanting to attempt a real hair sim (which ended up being a deep deep rabbit hole, but I settled on a sculpt with a little paint over in the final image here). ItРІР‚в„ўs always been my experimental piece so a lot of the stuff on here I hadnРІР‚в„ўt tried before at the time. Ihave no idea how long I ever actually spent on it but probably way too long. Pixar maintains a list of contributors to USD in their documentation here, and as we start working together to merge the two existing plugins it is also important to. I started this project a long long time ago and have worked on it on and off. The goal of this project is to work directly with Pixar and Animal Logic, as well as other key contributors, in order to merge the best of both into a single supported plugin. Comparing path tracer to VCM with glass and emissive - RenderMan Tutorial.

I wanted this image to fall somewhere between surreal and realistic much like the character and comic do, so hopefully it achieves this. The Maxx is a very abstract character that changes form quite a bit from image to image, but this my culmination of the character existing in the Outback of Pangaea.