TomRaynor Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 There have been a lot of posts on fur going around recently so thought I would add this into the mix. This is the latest project that I worked on where we used a fully Houdini pipeline for all of the fur and lit and rendered in mantra using pbr and the new pbr hair model. company website version: http://www.themill.com/work/smithwicks/squirrel.aspx my website version (with breakdowns and more behind the scenes to come): http://tom-raynor.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=372&gallery=work Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anim Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 congrats, it looks amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangi Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 super cool Thomas mangi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanostol Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Love it! Great work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomRaynor Posted July 15, 2013 Author Share Posted July 15, 2013 Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abvfx Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Great work Tom. The look of the fur is really nice. It looks much older and scraggly than typical cg animals. I guess they are more photogenic . Brilliant macro shot of the eye. Looking forward to more breakdowns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifis Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Amazing work! We have a fur expert here, so from now on we'll all know where to go for tips . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcbiajante Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Amazing work! congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netvudu Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 (edited) yeah, wonderful. The detail shot of the eye got all my attention, indeed. Amazing quality. Edited July 16, 2013 by Netvudu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pazuzu Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Congratulations!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFX Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 looks great tom well done...your surely anointed official fur ball I mean boy. look forward to a minor harrasment of emails come my next fur job ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwarder Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Awesome fur work! Any details on the lighting/rendering at all - render times, what setup used, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomRaynor Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 Cheers guys! Bolt hope life is treating u well at DN. We should get a beer in. It was all rendered in pbr, we got a chrome ball and grey ball plate for every shot as well as HDRIs. We turned the HDRIs into a cube map that got projected onto accurately modelled scene geo as well as camera projecting the backplate onto scene geo in some cases. However the bulk of the lighting was done using spot lights and standard lighting techniques as we found that the secondary bounce light didn't contribute a great deal to the fur at all. Pixel samples needed to be cranked pretty damn high as it is really only resolving the fine hair geometry that was the source of noise. Whiskers were rendered separately for this reason. The biggest thing I would stress (and it sounds simple) is that it is all about the model! Once the model is right everything else follows. There are too many creatures online with totally wacky proportions. If you are making a squirrel, roto a real squirrel image! We had all kinds of ugly rats to start off with... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratch Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Heeey Tom! Long time no see! That looks amazing as always! Great stuff, congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sankar Kumar Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Excellent work Tom... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke046 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 really nice work tom, fun to see the early sims too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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