Smoke Ship continued I

This is a different take on the smoke ship project. I dropped renderman, and particle systems to simplify the pipeline.

I brought the softbody simulation back in which was already cached on the disk before and hooked it up to an isooffset node under S...

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Fake SSS

This is a shader which fakes the sub surface scattering effect in RenderMan efficiently.

Here is the algorithm for the shader:

  1. Before anything else, backup the point and normal attributes of the surface, and set the opacity
  2. Setup the reflections t...
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HDR final

11 CPU cores with over 13 gigs of RAM, about 36 hours and only 70~ frames rendered...

I haven't modeled this car, but I've set up the materials for it as well as the HDR lighting and shooting the background plate. The model was a little too heavy to a...

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