This post is a bit more technical, and I’ll be scattering a few more in amongst my travel blog. I tend to try and automate my work life as much as possible, and this is a glimpse of what that is like. Hopefully this will help others since I couldn’t find a solution for this problem myself.
I’ve been playing around with Chaos Software’s Vray in Autodesk Maya lately and I really like it. We used it on Tron:Legacy at Digital Domain and it was amazing. I wanted to be an architect when I was younger and used 3D Studio Max in the late 90’s. I did a lot of cad work with Autocad and Intergraph, but 3D Studio Max was the first software I lit with. Boy did it blow my mind. I had designed a chair in a product design class out of a single sheet of 4’x8′ plywood, but I wanted to see it before I built it. Enter the world of lighting and texturing…
Fast forward many years…
I prefer Maya for many reasons, but mostly it’s because I learned it while working at Industrial Light and Magic on Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher. We created a sprite system for the snow with some Mel scripting, a 3d snowflake, and compositing plugin that would read a particle file.
