Tool Kit 2: Photometric Lights

The tutorial on Photometric lights was helpful, The use of real world lighting data to light a 3d scene seemingly can really help creating natural realistic light, if that is what is wanted for the scene. Its very cool that Maya and Arnold make using this data incredibly easy, and as simple as plugging a file into the right node. It will be interesting to see how this lighting system could effect renders though, whether the render time goes up by a large amount or not. The main take away I got from this tutorial was how noisy scenes that are enclosed can get, and how regimented you need to be about de noising parts of your image.

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Maya Texturing class: Substance 3

Maya Texturing class: Substance 3 In this class we went through the process of texturing this dumpster, recapping the use of fill layers and masks in Substance before being introduced to a few new tools that helped create the look of the textures. first we used the brush to paint in height information using alpha's and different brushes to create dents and parts of pressed metal. We then added anchor points to these layers allowing them to be used is functions that use the curve texture maps generated by the software. This means on the stamps we can use generators like edge ware or light as if it was modelled geometry. We then used the projection tool to project textures onto the dumpster and push onto the paint layer, this makes it easy to add images onto the texture maps for an object. This is seen with the spray can an the Graphic Graffiti on the Dumpster. Maya Render AO Pass Final Composite

Premise: Early Proposals

Minor: Project Proposals

Minor: Project Proposals Proposal 1: Non-Human Resources Publishing Context - This short will be designed to be published on the comedy animated short circuit, I hope to create a short that I would be proud to show at animation festivals. Even if restricted to either student or comedy based shows. The age rating I'm going for is 12, As there wont be any swearing or nudity however there will be small amounts of violence or thereat. as such it wont be published at shows aimed at children Proposal 2: Planet 32 Proposal 3: Roger the duck

Torran Rodgers, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester

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