A powerful way for creating fully custom render passes in Maya by considering the contribution of different light rays. Believe it or not, a renderer never ceases to amaze us in terms of functionalities! Nowadays, we might encounter situations where we need more control over the compositing of 3D rendered material.Many renderers already have features to produce custom render passes, …
Welcome to this brand new episode where we will learn how to model 3D curly hair or textured hair in Yeti for Maya! In our previous tutorials, we learned the fundamentals of Yeti as a professional tool for hair and fur. If you follow my series from the start, you’ll discover this wonderful tool and learn the best practices in …
As you’ve now become more familiar with Yeti, it’s time to dig into a new hairstyle technique: 3D dreadlocks. Hello everyone, and welcome back to this Yeti series. In our very first episode we learned the fundamentals of Yeti for Maya in which we produced a basic hairstyle for a cartoon character (Part I). We then moved on to more …
Consider the importance of creating an immersive experience and how choosing from a rich library of sound effects (in this case, Shutterstock sound effects) plays into immersion. Having a quality 3D piece to showcase is fundamental, and the integration of soundtracks may represent the icing on the cake in different situations. Also, the demand for technologies based on virtual reality …
Aging 3D assets is a good exercise for texturing, and it also creates more realism while showcasing your 3D models. You, as artists, have certainly heard of PBR (physically based rendering), expecially if you are into 3D texturing. As a refresher, when you texture props in a realistic way, PBR comes in handy by providing a method for texturing. This …
Metal materials missing that little bit of zing? Check out Francesco Furneri’s guide to rendering realistic metals and some practical tips for Substance Painter. In this article, you’ll learn how to create realistic metal materials and, in particular, I’ll give you some tips on producing different types of realistic details in Substance Painter. For the purpose of this article, let’s …
