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Wheany posted:The top of the paper deforms at one point in the video. I thought that maybe an edit could blend in better if it followed the deformation. So I could subdivide the plane and maybe add new empties in the middle points and hook the vertices there to the empties. Oh, you don't actually have to subdivide the whole plane, You can just subdivide the top edge. I did that and just keyframed the distortion. 
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sigma 6 posted:One last example of scanning from the Getty Villa. Not at all overkill. My meshes are typically in the 2-3 million tri range, with a single uv 8k texture. When I have the time to do so, I'll re-uv and bake the texture in Agisoft using those new uvs and go with a 4k texture. The 8k is mostly because Agisoft's uvs have crazy amounts of padding and uv islands which wastes a good 60-70% of the uv space. I've mostly abandoned Autodesk's scanning tech in general. Agisoft and Zbrush/Mudbox are already quite killer, and used by most artists in the industry.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:09
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Feb 19, 2015 04:52
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That's awesome man! I tried to do something like that with UE4 only it was fail. I incorporated physics and that made it slow as poo poo and also I don't have a clue about anything
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Feb 19, 2015 05:11
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Yeah, it's tough to figure out how to do stuff like that real time. It's super memory intensive. I pre-generate the vertices with bones using a recursive function. Then it's just a matter of throwing the mess at a shader to render it. The most intensive part of it updating the transform matrices for each bone which happens on the CPU.
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Feb 19, 2015 05:19
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Feb 19, 2015 05:54
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Finally, Peter Molyneux's promise of real time tree growth is upon us.  I'm being serious by the way, that does look awesome. I can't wait to see loads of leaves sprouting up all over it
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I also started adding color to it. I need to do some UI tweaks before I actually put it online. It's pretty good at bringing a computer to its knees if it tries to allocate too many resources. I bet I could actually add leaves to the last bones to grow them. The geometry isn't the bottleneck so far. Vine video: 
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Feb 19, 2015 16:00
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Anyone have experience with Alias for product visualisation? I have free student access to all the Autodesk products and I'm not sure which to focus on. I work in regular AutoCAD and I'm familiar with Inventor, but I want something that creates more realistic renders. The part-time product design course I'm doing is mainly focused on furniture, small appliances, cases for electronics etc. I've been using Fusion 360 and find it quite intuitive, just a bit limited.
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Feb 19, 2015 21:50
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Chas McGill posted:Anyone have experience with Alias for product visualisation? I have free student access to all the Autodesk products and I'm not sure which to focus on. I work in regular AutoCAD and I'm familiar with Inventor, but I want something that creates more realistic renders. The part-time product design course I'm doing is mainly focused on furniture, small appliances, cases for electronics etc. I've been using Fusion 360 and find it quite intuitive, just a bit limited. From a cursory search it looks like AutoCAD > Showcase seems to be the solution you'd want. It's main job is to make things pretty, and it seems to launch from within CAD.
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Showcase is okay. Vred is much more powerful and works with wire files. We're switching over at work. It's not very easy. But some of the stuff is unreal.
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Was very impressed with Keyshot at work so I picked it up for myself at home to use with Zbrush, then wondered why it was running so slowly. Oh right, work has 24 core CPUs. 
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Chas McGill posted:Anyone have experience with Alias for product visualisation? I have free student access to all the Autodesk products and I'm not sure which to focus on. I work in regular AutoCAD and I'm familiar with Inventor, but I want something that creates more realistic renders. The part-time product design course I'm doing is mainly focused on furniture, small appliances, cases for electronics etc. I've been using Fusion 360 and find it quite intuitive, just a bit limited. There are also Octane Render plug-ins for both AutoCAD and Inventor, but unfortunately it seems they don't offer free student versions for those platforms as they do with some others.
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Just a quickie between jobs: Vray, PS, etc.
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All of these things you people are posting lately look wonderful. I landed a job doing tech things that have nothing to do with 3D or imaging or art lately which means I have less free time, but am more focused with the time I do have with moving toward what I want. It's funny how that works. Question: Is there a preferred way to simulate the subtle reflections from a window/mirror in video footage?
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Hinchu posted:I also started adding color to it. I need to do some UI tweaks before I actually put it online. It's pretty good at bringing a computer to its knees if it tries to allocate too many resources. I bet I could actually add leaves to the last bones to grow them. The geometry isn't the bottleneck so far. Do you have any contact info? I feel like I'm going to want to commission you for some work in the near future (or definitely at some point or another). Anyway, here's some new non-work related work from me. I really wanted to learn Vray better, as well as skin shading, getting likenesses etc., so I started a new project in my off-time. The likeness still isn't there for me, but oh well. the likeness reference:  raw render:  my comp: 
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SVU Fan posted:Anyway, here's some new non-work related work from me. I really wanted to learn Vray better, as well as skin shading, getting likenesses etc., so I started a new project in my off-time. The likeness still isn't there for me, but oh well. I think it looks really good, nice sculpt, but I think your scale is way too high for the SSS. It looks like a plastic dolls head or some sort of miniature because there's so much light bouncing around inside it. Try turning down the scale a lot more and see how it looks. I'd also play with the spec levels and raise them up, in the reference she looks glossier than in your render. But that might be down to lighting, so maybe that needs a tweak as well.
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SVU Fan posted:raw render:
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On the other hand, looks like Maxwell Render does. Edit: Not for Alias or Inventor, but if you have an Autodesk student account you could just download 3DS Max or Maya and render in there. Musical_Daredevil fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 04:55
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Musical_Daredevil posted:On the other hand, looks like Maxwell Render does. Oh yeah I love Maxwell - it's my main rendering tool. If he doesn't mind bouncing his geometry to Maya or Max I would certainly recommend taking advantage of that deal. Edit: And actually he may not even need one of those since Maxwell Studio can import OBJs. For product vis this could be perfectly fine since you won't typically be dealing with a ton of geometry. Cyne fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm completely new to rendering and textures since 90% of the time it's just the bare minimum of shapes and dimensions at my job - could get by with 2d wireframe views for most the stuff I do. I've downloaded both Maya and Max since...why not. Might as well try both and see which I get on with for this product design stuff.
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SVU Fan posted:Do you have any contact info? I feel like I'm going to want to commission you for some work in the near future (or definitely at some point or another). I'm on gmail at tatum.creative and on Twitter @TatumCreative
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KiddieGrinder posted:It looked interesting until I got to this bit: They're not actually "required" required, I knew plenty of people on my course who came in without doing an art foundation. I got in without doing A level maths, as long as you can prove you're more or less competent they'll let you in the first year, which will do it's job of weeding you out if you're really not good enough anyway. Oh, and if you have the equivalent of 3 a's or something at A level, you get £1000 for free. Won't make up for the crazy debt you'll be in, but hey, free money. I managed to get it from a A in extended project, which I started about two days before the deadline, and a double distinction in BTEC ICT, which was super easy and I even skipped the last unit, since I couldn't possibly get a higher mark. curse of flubber fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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I'm not rich enough for that, nor have the brains to also handle two extra courses at the same time (competently at least).
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For a lot of people, it's probably the immediate access you have to the people teaching you. A lot of places also offer 3DCG Field related programs like job placement, further study recommendations, that sort of thing. And not enough can ever be said about all the networking you get done at CG schools. If you're purely interested in learning CG and don't want any of that extra stuff for some reason, then yeah, Workshops end up being the better deal.
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KiddieGrinder posted:I think it looks really good, nice sculpt, but I think your scale is way too high for the SSS. It looks like a plastic dolls head or some sort of miniature because there's so much light bouncing around inside it. Try turning down the scale a lot more and see how it looks. Hazed_blue posted:Decent comp results, but I think you may want to tweak your initial raw results some more. The convolution you've got going on the skin is pretty harsh, which is making the skin appear more waxy. Lowering the SSS/convolution/whatever range should help pull that back a little. Don't be afraid to pop the specular a little more as well. Remember that the skin is multi-part, and you'll want to faithfully reproduce the oil, the pores, and the epidermis separately to get that "real" look. Good points. I was having trouble with the scale because the head was not quite at full human scale, so I would bring the sss scale way down to something like .6 which is incredibly low, and it still would get the green bleed through. But that should be all fixed. I think I need to spend more time with a better spec map. I've ramped it up a bit by using a separate spec pass, but it's still not great. I also tweaked the proportions, not sure if for better or worse. Likenesses are mad frustrating.  
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Monster sculpt thingy. First time i've really done one and i'm having trouble with too much or too little. Any critique is appreciated.
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Feb 24, 2015 08:39
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Feb 24, 2015 10:09
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Now he has less fingers and more face.
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I've been fiddling with 3D stuff on and off for years, lately I came across Moi3d and found out I like nurbs: For some reason I never got too comfortable using subd surfaces and so logically, I'm learning about class-a surfaces. I may not be a smart man, but a hobby is a hobby.
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I'm in the process of lining up a freelance gig and need some advice on the kind of rate I should be asking for. It's basically matchmoving and some really basic rendering in Houdini on a bunch of short shots (up to 100). I am being asked for a per-shot rate and am not quite sure what would be appropriate here. My first thought was around $20 per shot but after learning more about the work I'm starting to think that might be too high for how basic it is. I don't think I would want to go any lower than $10 per shot. I know it's best to start with a high bid and negotiate down, but I also want to at least start out in the same ballpark as these guys. Thoughts?
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Eastdrom posted:Now he has less fingers and more face. I quite like this.
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It's an improvement, I'd still be tempted to take the scale down even more. With a strong light behind someone, about the only part that really has a visible SSS effect are our ears, the rest is very very subtle. So subtle in fact most people wouldn't even pick up on it, it's almost an unconscious thing. In fact if you want to test your SSS to see if it's the correct scale, try putting a bright light behind the head and see how far the light bleeds in past the ears. And definitely need a spec map; the glossiness looks really good on places like her forehead and lips, but looks really weird around the eyes and ears, where the sebum producing pores are less active.
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Cyne posted:I'm in the process of lining up a freelance gig and need some advice on the kind of rate I should be asking for. hours per average piece * desired hourly rate * buffer value for fuckups/feedback is the standard freelance equation for piece work. If the shots are going to take less than an hour each and you want to make $10/hour then go with $10/shot.
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Sigma-X posted:hours per average piece * desired hourly rate * buffer value for fuckups/feedback is the standard freelance equation for piece work. Yeah, I've asked them if I can pass a sample shot through the pipeline to get a sense of how long they should take before committing to anything. Thanks for the advice - I think I've got a good place to start then.
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Build in a number of revisions too, with extra revisions above say 3-4 costing extra otherwise you'll get stuck with a bajillion minor tweaks. (ask me how I know)
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Baking maps is a whole new world of i don't know what the gently caress i'm doing.
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SynthOrange posted:Build in a number of revisions too, with extra revisions above say 3-4 costing extra otherwise you'll get stuck with a bajillion minor tweaks. (ask me how I know) Yeah when I bid shots I assume 3-4 revisions per shot assuming its an similar effect [for vfx work] If its a one off effect where you can't spread lookdevelopment time around as much [ie. one shot taking a few weeks and 20 others taking 1-2 man days each] then you have to pad it. I think the old rule of thumb was.. whatever you'll think it'll be to do it, triple it.
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Hhahahahahahhahhaha. That was my life for a few weeks. Running woodchips and dirt through bullet. RBD's are easy for blowing up poo poo, having small irregular pieces create a stable simulation where the camera is like a few inches away...?  At least it was a bunch of cool shots I guess. Big K of Justice fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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