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PaulHellard

11-17-2009, 11:32 PM

Hey there,

So much stems on the performance and acceptance of CG animals. CIS Hollywood was given the arduous task of creating realistic creatures for this tale of espionage. The whole show balanced on the acceptance of the goat as a real animal. Can you tell the difference?

http://features.cgsociety.org//images/plugs/feature/plug_goats.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/story.php?story_id=5351)

Glacierise

11-18-2009, 07:46 AM

Nice article, looking forward to the movie!

ndeboar

11-18-2009, 10:16 AM

Ray traced GI lit fur??? I thought cleaver fur people baked hdris out into spotlight domes...or even maybe point based gi. Crazy stuff.

ndeboar

11-18-2009, 10:45 AM

This is inefficient :)

(err, this was a response to bellow).

SerdarVFX

11-18-2009, 10:48 AM

Masonic symbolism behind the goats head? :p

Ray traced GI lit fur???
this is sick!

Glacierise

11-18-2009, 11:21 AM

Actually its no real problem to do it in a raytracer(mental ray, vray etc), but it seems quite slow in renderman. Anyway - they obviously had the resources :)

TAVO

11-18-2009, 07:23 PM

This is inefficient

don´t know, 3 hrs per frame doesn´t seem that much for rendering fur.

maybe they choose ray traced because is a small scene. looks good though.

ManuelM

11-18-2009, 10:20 PM

even though the goat looks good, i see no reason to render that shot with raytraced gi. the same look could be easily achieved with a rather conventional lightrig and shadow maps.

rasamaya

11-18-2009, 11:42 PM

great article... thanks for sharing.

leif3d

11-19-2009, 12:18 AM

Weird that they wouldn't use point based GI if they had a Renderman pipeline.

LorenzoS

11-19-2009, 10:39 AM

Great article. Love the goat modeling, rendering and animation clips. I'll see this movie for sure.

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