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
Atmospheric anomaly II

Geometry is imported for each particle system cache. Houdini’s sprite node that is in the POP network doesn’t really function for prman. So I had to copy little circular grids on particles with template point attributes. I had to make sure that the grids would face the camera at all times, so while...

Houdini scad scripting Renderman rsl shader Modelling prman pop sprite smoke add normal vex
Atmospheric anomaly I

The effect I am trying to mimic is from Fellowship of The Ring. Specifically the smoke ship Gandalf character creates while smoking a pipe.

I am using Houdini to build the geometry for the effect, which was a challenge at the beginning since although I have been using Houdini over 7 months now I...

Houdini scad scripting Renderman Modelling prman pop rop softbody attractor bgeo dop drag noise procedural reverse smoke softlimit trail wind