Attaching archives during render time with -addsphereRI

This project was about creating and editing RenderMan attributes in Maya. preshapemel attribute was imported to the objects in the scene to switch the points of the actual object with a rib archive or a simple sphere before prman takes the scene over. The interface is created with the help of an r...

Maya lighting scad scripting Animation Renderman cutter rib color instance prman preshapemel
Camp fire

I was doing some flame tests with Houdini before I get some real footage with a mustang in the race track for the ghost rider project... so this is what I came up with, and I know the final comp doesn't look good because I just slapped the flame on top...

Houdini lighting after effects scripting Modelling instance instance light instancepoint isooffset Mantra metaball pop rop
Cars light test

These are some of the light and compositing tests I've done with the car models.

final gathering Mental Ray lighting vfs xsi cars
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...
lighting scad Renderman after effects cc ball displacement gaussian blur glass HDR ka kd km ks mod sub layer sub surface scattering
Multi crash test

A little render and dynamics test I did before I decided to keep working on this project. This project ended up to be my final at VFS. There isn't a single keyframe in this shot.

final gathering Maya Mental Ray lighting Dynamics vfs xsi