nCloth and Constraints

Modeling High-rez Human; Latest Progress

Dynamics: Soft bodies

Creating varied bubbles using lattice and turbulence field in dynamics.

Mimicking water behaviour

Mimicking snow behaviour ( also using soft bodies and turbulence to 'model' the plane for initial state)

High-rez Male Modeling Progress

progressing on modeling male, mainly shaping in legs.

Active/Passive Dynamics, soft bodies and nDynamics:

Using dynamics to mimic real world behaviour and scenarios

Active passive dynamics with various constraints (nail, hinge, spring ect.) 

 

nDynamics with constrainted points, material behaviour, real-world simulations (wind ect.), cashe blending and other deformers ( such as wrap)

High-Rez Modeling: Torso

Modeling High-rez Head

High rezolution head model was made using same model reference images as  for games character . The final model seems to resemble original person better in this case . There was more freedom to bring in the details to the character as in the case of modeling for games, geometry had to be very limited.

Facial features:

 The Ear (part one):

And the head:

Mental Ray: Caustics, Physical Sun, Portal Lights, HDR Image Based Lighting,

Caustics:

Mental Ray Shaders:

Physical Sun and Sky

Shadow Sampling and Softening in Physical Sun and Sky:

Portal Lights:

HDR image based lighting:

Dynamics, Displacement and Mental Ray Rendering, week 8

Displacement:

Mental Ray Rendering: Final gather and Global Illumination:

Dynamics : Sequential instancing and Goal

Mental Ray Rendering

Rendering Analysis:

render 1

0:39
custom settings

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render 2
rendering time 0:38
bsp size 10
bsp depth 60
sampling 2

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render 3
rendering time 0:41
bsp size 10
bsp depth 50
sampling 2

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render 4
rendering time 0:34
bsp size 10
bsp depth 60
sampling 1

rendering time 0:34,bsp size 10,bsp depth 60,sampling 1

Motion Blur:



Maya Software 3D motion blur (Shutter angle 90)





Mental ray 3D motion blur (No deformation)

Depth of Field:
 Foocal lenghts is set to 20,  F-stop to 15



No Lens-bokeh

the setting for Lens-Bokeh in this image were :
Plane 4.1
Radius: 0.6
Bias: 1
Sampling: 12
Anti-aliasing: 0.04

The lens effect gives a very interesting effect and appears to be worth-while to experiment with . Especially interesting to me is the posibility to plug in custom bokeh shapes, which give such interesting effect

Realy really impressive...

Dynamic's: Instancers

Past few weeks maya classes introduced Dynamic's Instancers for various uses, from the obvious, having loads of pre-made objects in the scene, to using it for randomly placing elements in the set.

Instancing: Scale

Dynamic's Instancing: object index

Instancing: Vector based rotation

Using velocity to control direction

Direction

Instancing: Rotation index ( between velocity, aim position, aim direction)

Rocket direction is controled using velocity, particles which drive rocket geometry aro also ''cloud'' emitters.

Using instancers and  random rotation script to achieve random tree positioning

Normal Mapping and Dynamics, Week 4

Normal mapping was very interesting to learn. Especially that  it has such a potential for application.

Dynamics from week 4:

Game Character's UV layout

a bit different approach in laying out game character's UV's.