This in depth tutorial shows how to create a film damage effect using procedural dust and scratches in eyeon Fusion.
You can download the example .comp file here
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I’ve been doing some tests to create a monster made of particles for a short film. I’ve been very impressed be the speed of rendering Motion Blur in iRay. It’s smooth and high quality with very little performance overhead.
These are our top tips for managing the post-production process. Essentially we’re trying to control these truisms.
- How do we check everyone imagines the same thing?
- Stuff never turns out quite the way we imagined it.
A helpful guy from autodesk showed me some useful tools for 3dsMax and nvidia iray. A special iray material , and a maxscript that allows you to access a lot of features hidden from the default render dialog
iRay material plugin
There is a sticky thread on the mental images forum which allows you to download the plugin from their ftp site.
It has a host of features.
- 3 layers: Glossy Coating, Metallic Flakes, Glossy/Diffuse/Transparent Base
- Backscattering (for realistic fabrics)
- Metallic flakes (for great car paint)
- Sub-surface scattering
- Thin film coating
- Spectral dispersion
- Anisotropy on each layer
- Emission (self-illuminance)
- Displacement, bump, round corners, cutout
iRay manager script
There are a bunch of hidden features in iray that can be access using scripted commands. The iRay manager script was originally written by Artur Leao then later updated by Thorsten Hartmann. As a result we now have two slightly different version of the script, as both parties seem to be now publishing updates independently.
- Resources
- Interactivity Performance
- extended progressive Options
- FireFly Filtering (to remove 1 pixel hot spots)
- Matte Ground
- Background
- Clay Render
- Save/Load Options
You can download Artur Leao’s version from his blog.
Thorsten Hartmann version is available on his web page.
The nividea forum also hosts a thread on iRay Manager script.
iray dev Blog
Nvidea have a site dedicated to iRay at http://irayrender.com/
If you browse through the blog you can find the matte material for iray
I find this more useful than the often mentioned 1949 classic The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Cambell’s. Vogler’s contemporary style is more accessible for the modern reader, and his many examples from well-known movies (‘Star Wars’, ‘Titanic’, ‘The Lion King’) really help to demonstrate the Heroic Quest Formula.
- Heroes are introduced in the ORDINARY WORLD
- they receive the CALL TO ADVENTURE
- They are RELUCTANT at first or REFUSE THE CALL, but
- are encouraged by a MENTOR to
- CROSS THE THRESHOLD and enter the Special World, where
- they encounter TESTS, ALLIES, AND ENEMIES.
- They APPROACH THE IN-MOST CAVE, cross a second threshold
- where they endure the ORDEAL
- They take possession of their REWARD and
- are pursued on THE ROAD BACK to the Ordinary World.
- They cross the third threshold, experience a RESURRECTION, and are transformed by the experience.
- They RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR, a boon or treasure to benefit the ORDINARY WORLD.