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Br1

01-26-2003, 06:21 PM

http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet00.jpg

Hi all....

While participating the animation challenge I thought I could also post some pictures of a scene I worked on while beta testing Mental Ray for Maya.

It's all poly-modelled (I made a script to build up the stones based on freehand curves) and rendered using only procedural textures under MentalRay.

At that time render region didn't work for MentalRay so it took me more than than I previously expected to tune up the shaders.
I finally rendered all everything with a SkyShader and Final Gathering plus one Spotlight to provide harder shadows.
I also made a small splashscreen animation (http://www.br1.org/2002/postnuke/html/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/Animations/splashscreen.avi) (divx 5.02)for an A|W contest that you can look at here.
Hope it'll please some of you guys.... and hum, yes I'm also looking for a job :D

Here are some work-in-progress pictures.

image01 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet07.jpg)
image02 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet07.jpg)
image03 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet02.jpg)
image04 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet03.jpg)
image05 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet04.jpg)
image06 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet05.jpg)
image07 (http://www.br1.org/cgtalk/SunnyStreet/SunnyStreet06.jpg)

stephen2002

01-26-2003, 06:42 PM

looks good, however I would work on the texture of the street itself, it looks so flat

The lighting is good.

wgreenlee1

01-26-2003, 07:28 PM

I agree about the street,needs a little roughing up.
You posted the best pic,the others I really didnt care for.

Quik

01-26-2003, 07:34 PM

really liking it. I love environment renders.. What program did you use?

Br1

01-26-2003, 09:50 PM

Thanks for the comments...Yes I know the floor seems quite clean, I could had some dirt. If I have some time to rework the picture I'll concentrate on that part and some part of the wall around the door.

wgreenlee : yup, the other pictures are not finished oes, just some shots from wip, I thought it might interest some people. (sad that you didn't care for it or for the animation...).

Quilk : I used Maya + Mental ray to do the pictures.

URI::G

01-26-2003, 09:54 PM

I love it! The lighting is great. Perhaps you could make version with a less tidy street too. Also, adding some particles in the air could really push the image.

Br1

01-27-2003, 07:58 AM

Yeah, particles is a great idea... At that time they were not supported by Mental Ray for Maya, but now they are, so I could give it a try ! Thanks for the suggestion !

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