Fur & Hair & XGen
Two main ways to create hair: nHair Maya’s own internal system. XGen Sometimes doesn’t work with other Maya systems as it’s a plug-in. Select the faces and extract them then planar map it, go to the...
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I used After Effects to edit our rendered shots. Jakub worked on the music and Gianni collected sound effects and the foley. I’m no After Effects expert but I can do the basics quite well. Resources I...
View ArticleCompositing with Nuke
I imported the EXR file into Nuke and used a READ node to display it (make sure there are no # in the file’s name). To check that the EXR file actually contains all the passes you need, connect it to...
View ArticleWater Tests
So until our next presentation to the folks from the BBC, Alec met up with us and divided a plan as to who would look into what. Gianni is rigging the bird, Jakub is looking into texturing and I’m...
View ArticleRendering AOVs
Useful material: Merge AOVs to get an EXR file into Nuke that you can open up into the Ai Standard’s passes. To get the other passes https://support.solidangle.com/display/AFMUG/AOVs To create a...
View ArticleStyle
We knew from the beginning we wanted to do a more stylised look rather than anything realistic. At first we liked the look of the Granite and Chalk animated documentary: The colours are very similar to...
View ArticleLighting
So there’s three light sources in my scene. Left candle Right candle cluster Crystal ball. So I edited the photo I am using for the backplate and imported it into my scene. I need to remember to keep...
View ArticleDynamics
So instead of having something reflected off the ball – I want to put something mysterious inside it! I’m going to use dynamics to create a smoke and then render a still image of it. Refreshed my...
View ArticleModelling
I was given the car to model. We liked the design of the Austin A35 Van (Wallace and Gromit’s Van!), it’s a British model that was around in the 1960s and we thought it would be appropriate for our...
View ArticleConcepts
References: My concepts: The formation and number of the planes we show in this will have to be discussed. There were eight Buccaneers in total that bombed the tanker but I think showing a minimum...
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