CGMA Matte Painting Fall 2018 Students
December 9, 2018
My Fall Semester Matte Painting class has finished up at CGMA. Here are some select pieces from some of the students.
World Creator heightfield with Maya Redshift
December 2, 2018
Simple video on exporting out your heightmap from World Creator and bringing it into Maya using Redshift. The height is sometimes tricky to match from the one package to the other.
SLib Browser -HDRI
November 18, 2018
I’ve talked about SLib browser as means in maya to have an organized asset library. Another great feature is ability to import HDR images with sky domes based on your renderer of choice.
Stock 3d Assets – Terrain Domain
November 11, 2018
There is a growing arena of places where you can download excellent assets to add to your 3d Library. There’s the usual places like Megascans or Textures.com. Kitbash3d has been adding to their ever impressive city/building library. Another place I recently found is Terrain Domain that is for landscape assets. Continue reading “Stock 3d Assets – Terrain Domain”
World Creator texture test
November 5, 2018
Just a simple post today.
World Creator exploration that I brought into Maya, and rendered with Arnold.
It looks like I had some issue with one of my maps when I compared it back to my World Creator file.
World Creator pt2
October 22, 2018
Using World Creator with Height fields, specifically using terrain.party maps.
World Creator pt1
October 14, 2018
From last week’s terrain creation software, here’s a look into World Creator.
It’s a very easy to navigate and great visualization as your work instead of standard input nodes and render them like in World Machine. This feels more like 3d Photoshop.
Stacking filters on layers to then create your geometry.
Terrain Creation Software
October 7, 2018
There are a bunch of cool software for terrain generation and they keep getting better. I’ll be focusing on software that is mostly using height maps and procedurals. Continue reading “Terrain Creation Software”
Inktober….it’s back!
October 1, 2018
Well, how the time has flew. We are back in Oct…I mean Inktober. Continue reading “Inktober….it’s back!”
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.
