Summer Semester Students Work
September 24, 2018
Another semester comes to a close at CGMA. I had a wonderful group of student artists. Here are some selected works from them.
Substance Designer
September 17, 2018
Been messing around with Substance Designer. Nothing really to report, just that’s it’s pretty cool and easy to use. Here’s an image of the interface.
Substance Designer is a Material Authoring program. It’s very VERY quickly become the standard in PBR Material authoring. It’s node based and procedural in nature with robust features. Continue reading “Substance Designer”
Slib Browser Library assets
September 9, 2018
I’ve mentioned Slib Browser before, but I wanted to go thru updating assets to the library.
Here I am taking the Kitbash 3d Victorian set with textures and adding it to my library. Continue reading “Slib Browser Library assets”
Previsualize terrains with height fields
September 3, 2018
A quick way to pre-visualize terrains: terrain.party
It’s a great website that allows you to download height fields of anywhere in the world. I brought these into Maya on a simple plane and added a texture deformer to visualize the terrain. You can then manipulate these to make your own customizable worlds or download higher resolution DEM height maps.
CGMA Matte Painting Class
August 26, 2018
New Fall semester coming up, check it out and spread the word.
Set Extension Trainee Applications
August 19, 2018
Disney Animation Studios is now accepting Set Extension trainee applications
The Apprentice Program is based in our Burbank, California and begins October 2018. The first three months of the Apprentice Program starts out as a Disney Animation Trainee. The deadline for applications is August 26, 2018 11:59 PM PST. Continue reading “Set Extension Trainee Applications”
Victorian environment with MASH
August 12, 2018
I’ve been working on this Victorian Environment. Once I’ve gotten my layout of the city, I wanted to work on the park area. For this I’m using Mash again to scatter my trees. Continue reading “Victorian environment with MASH”
Mash again
August 6, 2018
Just started digging back into Mash again. Here’s a little tutorial I put together starting where I left off last time. Simple scattering of an object but then getting into high population levels and finding ways to help with that. Using Redshift again as my renderer.
Gap in posts
July 9, 2018
Morning Everyone,
You may have noticed I haven’t posted in several weeks. Well, we are finally able to move into our little home that had a fire over a year ago. So, we’ve been packing, moving, cleaning, etc. Continue reading “Gap in posts”
SLib Browser PRO
June 10, 2018
My friend, Emmanuel Shiu, introduced me to this awesome little plug-in for Maya called SLib Browser Pro. The company that makes it, DGDM has a whole laundry list of cool plug-ins of which I’ll delve into more. Right now let’s focus on SLib Browser Pro. Continue reading “SLib Browser PRO”
