My pet distraction recently has been writing a Maya plugin called Mayaseed. Right now its a fairly simple translater to convert maya scenes into .appleseed scenes that the Appleseed renderer can play with. Appleseed is an open source renderer written by a good friend François Beaune and a brand new Alpha version should be available to download today with my exporter bundled in with it. Heres a little image made using the first, of many, versions of Mayaseed.
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I’ve been doing some lighting and rendering today…
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Part two of the ongoing experiment into comics, not entirely sure about the colouring, I tried a bunch of different styles and i think this worked best, admittedly it was a bit of an afterthought.
(looking at it the colours are doing some weird banding, I need to look into how to get rid of that, maybe I need to trick the compression with some noise or something)
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A big experement for me, always wanted to do a comic, not sure is this is a success yet though, probaby a bit rough…
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just a quick sketch from the train station, nothing fancy, one of these days I’ll figure out some more exciting colour combinations…
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Heres a little experiment I made on the train, just to keep myself sane whilst I work on my grad film.
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Today I started animating! ( + some help from James Van Der Merwe) very exciting, this is the scene I’m working on. Hopefully i will put up some moving tests soon, for now just a still of the forced perspective scene I’m working on.
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