Tool Kit 2 : Displacement

In this tutorial I learnt how to use the 2 variations of displacement maps. Firstly how to generate them using Mudbox and then after how to use them within Arnold. The first version is a black and white displacement map that can only effect the height of the generated topology. The second was a Vector displacement map that used colour data as well, this meant that you could generate overhangs with the displacement map.

Displacement.

original topology.

Vector Displacment.

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Tool Kit 2: Ambient Occlusion

Tool Kit 2: Ambient Occlusion Rendering Ambient Occlusion maps was something I was aware of from first year however this tutorial went into more detail about the shader in Arnold and as such was a really useful tutorial. Not only for the creation of good AO passes but for the knowledge I could potentially use the shader to create different effects because of the versatility of the shader. The end of the tutorial showed us how to use the AO map when composing the image in after effects of photoshop, this is a easy step however at this point a style will be shown as people will pick different intensity's depending on there eye and the effect they want to make.

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

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