Nathan Jones - Digital Artist Blog: Mental Ray

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Friday, 5 February 2016

Hunting Humans

Hunting humans - Red Demon

Modeling: Maya + Zbrush

Texturing: Zbrush + Photoshop

Rendering: Mental Ray

Compositing: Photoshop

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Look Development: Funnel Web Spider

Modeling - Zbrush/Maya

Textureing - Zbrush/Photoshop

Rendering - Mental Ray

Compositing - After effects

Friday, 15 January 2016

Mental Ray - Shader Creation/Testing

Mental Ray shaders creation. Textures are a mix of personal photos and images from the following sites:

www.textures.com

www.texturemate.com

Demon - Work In Progress

Look Development - Demon (WIP)
Modeled in Maya/Zbrush
Textured in Zbrush/Photoshop
Rendered in Mental Ray

Friday, 14 August 2015

Look Development: "Mouth Of Hell"

Friday, 26 July 2013

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Forest Environment - Maya, Paint Effects, Mental Ray, After Effects

After watching some wonderful tutorials by Alex Alvarez on creating plants in Maya's paint effects and rendering them in mental ray I figured I'd have some fun and create some of the plants I see in Sydney when bush walking. These Paint Effects plants have been converted to Polys and have been instanced along a poly plane.

I plan to keep growing a library of plants and trees so I can quickly make environments and animate them.

Here are two useful scripts....

1. The SpPaint Script

2. The Leaf UV Tool

Software Used - Maya, Mental Ray and After Effects.

Tests:

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Video copilot - AE Particles & Origami Pigasus

Thought I would follow along with a cool particle tutorial by Andrew Kramer on videocopilot.net.

I'll have to think up some cool ideas to see how far I can push these techniques.

A ghostly Origami Pigasus animation i did years ago for fun and very quickly - (my excuse for not motion tracking it properly) - I wouldn't mind finding the original maya files and making it look good - - with - AE particles perhaps? Hmm....