#render pass

[catanimations]

This is another practice test using Nuke to assemble render passes from Maya. This process gives greater control on the compositing side of things with things such as grading, where you can then alter the grade of specific layers such as changing the hue of just the reflection pass rather than the entire render. Another very useful technique

[ftakke]

Most of the shots were rendered in 3 passes, that were then composited in After Effects to create the final image. 

The first image is a Diffuse render. I contains the basic colours and shaders and some shadows.

Next comes an Ambient Occlusion render, which I achieved by replacing all textures by a Mental Ray material with an added Ambient/Reflective Occlusion. This is placed on the Diffuse render in After Effects on Multiply and 50% opacity.

The last render, which is a render pass taken out of the Diffuse render, contains the Lighting. This is also placed on the Diffuse render on Multiply and 50% opacity.

Lastly I added a Brightness and Contrast and Color Balance effect to play with the settings a bit. The last image is a final still from the film.

[art-jam]

Compositing is...

So this render pass thing is driving me crazy during our class a while ago.

Sure feels so complicated and a lot of hard work, but the efforts of separating them in layers are worth it :) I just hope that my plate did, haha!

Reads:

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/passes_layers/passes_layers.html

http://flylib.com/books/en/2.649.1.132/1/