![]() This year, challengers will receive access to ‘The AMD Creator Cloud,’ a render farm powered by Azure HBv3 instances that are composed of high-performance AMD EPYC™ processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology. This challenge offers graphic designers, artists, and others around the world the opportunity to create and achieve their cinematic visions with Pixar’s RenderMan. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), along with Pixar Animation Studios, are announcing the latest RenderMan Challenge. Overall I would recommend Renderman to anyone who wants to free their artistic mind and get away from being bogged down with technical details.Challengers Will Have Access To The ‘AMD Creator Cloud’ Powered by AMD EPYC™ Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology on Microsoft Azure, Helping to Fulfill Their Creative Dreams ( NULL.terrymatthes /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/lightingFruit NULL.jpg) Conclusion There are a few confusing thins like the colour you get when using Sub Surface Shading, but it is explained in the online documentation. Compared to Vray, or really any other render plugin out there it’s fantastic. The one thing that really superised me with Renderman was the render settings you have to play with. The interactive rendering you can do with even just your CPU for Renderman is pretty good. Although it isn’t necessarily physically correct that doesn’t matter in this instance. I found that the ability to control the second specular lobe made a huge difference. The surfacing of the fruit was easier to do in Renderman than previous render plugins. ![]() The fill light coming from the left of the photos is doing it’s job of pulling the shadows up so they appear softer. It’s pushing through a large light blocker with a windows shape punched out. There are two spotlights in the scene the key light is on the far right. ( NULL.terrymatthes /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fruitZbrush NULL.jpg) Lighting / Surfacing Painting your objects in 3D is such a liberating feeling when compared to painting in 2D. It lets you mix and match details from several different photos with ease. Being able to resample areas of textures to stamp using Spotlight feels awesome. Before Substance Painter came along it was a great way (and still is) to get your assets textured. I think that’s one of the programs big wins. ( NULL.terrymatthes /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fruituvs NULL.jpg) ZBrush / Spotlight The bananas turned out great and I feel this was a big part of why. Later on in Maya I formed the UVs around the image. After the peel was flattened I snapped a shot. I cut the bananas along their natural edges and then squished them out of the peel. I did want to try something different on the banana though. The majority of the shapes are spherical in nature, so the UVs followed and were produced with spherical projections. ( NULL.terrymatthes /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fruitcollage NULL.jpg) UV Work Overall I was really happy with the results. They had more grain than I anticipated, and it made it a little more difficult to fix some of the lighting info. I had one small setback when I was editing the photos. I later brought shots like these into Photoshop to remove an strong lighting info. Then the camera straddled the box and the camera was underneath the tripod to shoot straight down. The box itself was facing with the open side upwards. I constructed the light box from white posterboard. The photographs were taken in a lightbox using a camera mounted above it facing downwards. ZBrush/Spotlight and photo references to paint fruit.I thought the plugin was fairly easy to work with and had a decent realtime render mode via CPU. Choice of lens and camera position are left up to the individual. ![]() The challenge is that you are given the 3D models to work with and your job is to texture, light and render the scene. I wanted to visit this challenge once more as a test of the free Renderman render plugin for Maya. The models for everything in the scene were taken from as part of their Lighting Challenge #1. ( NULL.terrymatthes /wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CGChallengeOne NULL.jpg)
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