Comments on: Surf’s Up Course at Siggraph

By: Akhlaque

Akhlaque — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:01:21 +0000

Marvelous efforts!
& immense resource…..

Thanks for sharing.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:28:01 +0000

We actually rendered every particle in Pixar's Renderman. It's not a volume solution, just a lot of individual little spheres (or in this case, actually flat discs oriented at the camera) shaded to look like tiny water droplets.

We rendered them using a fairly simple shader and used deep shadows to get the lighting detail. By rendering each light as a different color (one red, one green and one blue) we could control the value of the different lights in the composite (by mixing different values of each of the channels.

Depending on the rendering software that you're using, this might be a good way to simulate lots of particles, or you might be better off actually using a volume rendering solution like Voxel B (from DD) or Svea (from Sony Imageworks).

Best of luck to you.

By: han jiang

han jiang — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:27:16 +0000

Ahhhh, It's the one of the most fascinating lecture notes i've ever read. i tried hard wandering on the internet, but i can't find any clue how do you render the particles on page 102. A friend told me it's not the highend "Storm" ( or Voxel Bitch) way from digital domain. But what do you mean by

"Individual particle renders lit by 3 lights - each light rendered to a separate R, G, or B channel "

how and why should i render these passes , and how do i make the most use of them in comp ?

Please shed some light on me, Thanks man.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:52:31 +0000

good job

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:51:28 +0000

Awesome work guys – i ma a Animatior wht is thk nk of Camera?

By: brila

brila — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:32:13 +0000

good…….marvel …. thanking u

By: sudhakar

sudhakar — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:27:04 +0000

thanking u for making animated book.realy very useful to me.

By: Rob Bredow

Rob Bredow — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:23:26 +0000

Nice work on the eye tutorial John. Thanks for the great feedback.

By: John Doublestein

John Doublestein — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:19:04 +0000

I was inspired by this course to integrate some of the concepts in our characters at work. The “Sum of 10 Blinks” and “Eyeball Follow” features are now standard parts of all our rigs! If you’d like to see my take on it, check out the tutorial I wrote at http://studentpages.scad.edu/~jdoubl20/JTDsmartBlinks.html
Thanks for the great ideas!

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