The final result is composited in Nuke where the beauty, shadow and reflection layers are adjusted as Charles adds subtle chromatic aberration, rebalances the multiLight and finalizes the shot with camera shake. Charles demonstrates the use of the alShader for the TRex with various maps and finalizes the lighting as he evaluates the animation. He begins with a grey shaded turntable, adjusts the grey, chrome and white spheres to improve integration, then delves into Arnold’s global settings, skyDome and area lights. Throughout the lesson, he delves into various techniques that allow for the high-quality integration of CG elements with live-action backgrounds specifically an animated T-Rex. These include, Combine Color, Layer Color, Remap Color, Switch Color (and float utility nodes for each of those), Cache, Jitter Color, Input Vector, and Input Scalar.Īrvid also provides a little demonstration for using alJitterColor, which can allow you to instantly get color variation across multiple objects, easily.TRex lookDev and lighting : In this title Charles Chorein shares his production proven methodology to create a lookDev and lighting scene in Maya and Arnold. Here, Arvid shows off the power you can have at your fingertips using the alShaders utility nodes.ĪlShaders is Anders Langlands’ open source and free physically plausible shader library for Arnold, that is focused on offering tools for production.ĪlShaders has a long list of utility nodes that can be used in all kinds of workflows. Thankfully, Lighting TD Arvid Schneider, has been posting his 100-level course quick-start guide, helping artists make the dive into the amazing Arnold Renderer. Some of use (like myself), need to get oriented in how Arnold works within Maya. If you are going to be using Arnold, you should get the free alShaders for it.

Since the release of Maya 2017, mental ray is out, and Arnold is in.

Arnold isn’t that difficult to learn, but you had better start.

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