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Oct 08 2011

Hair-Farm hair into Softimage

It’s been a while since I last posted, allot has been happening here over the last few months but I found time to finally finish my idea of getting hair into Softimage from Hair-Farm in Max. It took a year of figuring out and a bit if persuading but I finally got some help from Steven Caron to built a script to be able to import .ASE splines into Softimage and convert them to Curves. Then using a bit of ICE/Melena Magic we were able to get some hair ready to render. These aren’t perfect, don’t be too judgemental :)

The next steps are going to be fantastic (I hope) Dual Scattering is what is needed.

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Jul 08 2011

3d scanning to CG Characters in hours.

Testing a new custom Scanning pipeline, I just wanted to share some new character models that were scanned and rendered in Softimage, rendered with Arnold.

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Aug 27 2010

Beta testing Arnold and Learning Softimage.

After 5 days learning Softimage (big thanks to the XSI Jedi Master, Paul Smith www.bustykelp.com) and 5 days learning Arnold. Below are some test results.

Arnold is incredible. It is hands down the fastest and most intuitive rendering program on the market. It puts Vray and Mental Ray to shame.

Quick  animation test (very low sampling)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnJMWpUW8Y[/youtube]

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