Simple tutorial using Arnold in Maya with displacment and then converting that heightfield to geometry.
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A former student of mine, Emma Wittwer, shared with me a great link of awesome Photoshop tutorials by PiXimperfect on YouTube. He has over a 1 million subscribers so he is definitely doing something right. Continue reading “Photoshop tutorials”
Spent a couple short bursts to mash this piece together.
I used Megascans rocks and an element from Kitbash 3d’s Egypt set.
Here’s what I came up with.
Here’s a wireframe of the geometry
Today’s Presidents Day, here is another study using Kitbash 3d’s “Victorian” set. Did layout in Maya, added some SpeedTree trees to scene. Used Redshift to get a base render, then painting in Photoshop. Maybe 2 hours of photoshop work to enhance the render.
I took the Kitbash Victorian set. Did a quick Redshift render with atmosphere and some lights. About 1-2 hours in Photoshop. Not perfect, but fun.
This is the render out of Maya in Redshift
I love to watch tutorials on other artists workflows and tools. You never know what little kernel of awesomeness you’ll unravel. This rainy weekend I was trying out some of Jama Jurabaev’s tutorials and Steven Cormann’s new tutorial. Both artists are amazing and seeing their process unfold is a delight.
Jama’s tutorial is on gumroad (he has a bunch). But the ones I took an interest in are using Octane renderer and Blender.
To contrast that, Steven Cormann has just released his tutorial, Epic Matte Shot. He is using Redshift as his renderer. He does a great job breaking down his workflow.
If you get a chance take a look at both artists tutorials and their work. You will not be disappointed.
Happy MLK Day everyone.
In the new year, I noticed my Laptop’s hard drive was getting pretty close to full. I looked into getting another hard drive to help the battle, then I worked on another project went to say my files and BAM…I couldn’t save the file I had maxed out my old drive space. So I’ve spent the last couple days organizing my files, moving things around, and such.
Crisis averted for now. I have to spend some time looking into a better scenario than just buying another external hard drive to back up data. I’ve got multiple multiple backup drives now. So I’ll start digging into this now, but if anyone has any good solutions they’ve done I’m all ears.
Thanks
Well, another holiday extravaganza has come and went. 2018 is now a distant memory as we embrace 2019!!
So now I have to ask what are your New Year’s resolutions? What should we all begin the year focusing on?
What did we accomplish in 2018. For me, I am very happy and thankful for much of this past year. Remember to look back at your 2018 goals/resolutions and see how close you came to reaching them. Celebrate your successes and strategize where you fell short so that this year you may achieve. There are goals I missed and others I succeeded at. Make sure you are specific in your resolutions. The more detail makes them more concrete.
Enjoy this New Year!! This is the last year of the “teens”. Make the most out of it.
Mel Script for converting Maya Shaders to Redshift Shaders. I’m using Kitbash3d’s Victorian set to convert the shaders.
My Fall Semester Matte Painting class has finished up at CGMA. Here are some select pieces from some of the students.
