Weird jagged shadow problem

#1

Hi guys

I’m rendering out a simple shot in Maya using mentral ray and I’m getting a really strange jagged looking shadow on one of my characters which seems to be coming from using raytraced shadows.

What’s strange is that there is nothing between the character and the light to be casting a shadow and I’ve tried a bunch of things but since lighting isn’t my strong point I’m at a loss. If anyone has any kind of suggestions that’d be awesome.

Cheers
Trav

#2

Nothing to see here. Seems it was simply a smoothing issue causing weirdness. I’d still be interested to know how this happens though if anyone has some knowledge on it.

#3

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