Lighting Question

[Pumaboy]

A few people told me Ambient Occlusion (if thats how you spell that) with some Global Illumination.. but i messed around a bit ... (i'm using 3ds max 2009) and i can't seem to get the effect... its clay like kinda ... if you google some of the this i posted previously....

[Ransom]

Please make sense when asking questions.

[Pumaboy]

that made me feel like Crap... thanks..... i asked if anyone knew how to i can achieve a similar light scheme that of ... shorts like Sigg Jones... and that of Monster Samuri.. the majority of Spritee studios works... i was just trying to see if i can get that effect... does that make sense

[Ransom]

I didn't mean to be an ass.
1 are you about to graduate college or Highschool?
2 it helps to provide links, I was unfamiliar with the work.
3 Sigg Jones doesn't seem to be one person but a team.

It looks like they used GI that probobly has a built in A/o option. The "Clay" effect is just the textures and the materials that they used, not really any thing else.

Other than that I can not help you unless you are very specific.

[defago]

by the look of monster samurai, I would say they are basic low-spec/low-reflective materials, rendered with a good ambient lighting solution like final gather, and as mentioned before- definitely some occlusion in there.

For starters, I would use an mia_material- as the "diffuse_roughness" attribute will give a subtle sss/clay type of feel to the material without extra render time (and no crazy shader work), and it is easy to get nice blurry highlites/reflections.
For the lighting, if it will be outdoors the physical sun/sky would be a great solution, or a nice final gather with a spot/directional light.

[tuffmutt1]

you might wanna check Jeff patton's blog out for clay look in mental ray..

http://jeffpatton.cgsociety.org/blog/
scroll down a bit...

[Pumaboy]

thank you everyone for all the Replys..

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