Today's thursday and Mr Douglas dropped by for the weekly review,
Mr Pang, Mr TK & Rap were also present.
He shared some rendering tips on how i should avoid upping render setting on the Mantra Node but instead up the "Sampling Quality" of the virtual lights.
That way only that particular light is affect instead of globally increasing the settings of everything in the scene.
Another thing he shared was Irradiance Cache. Suppose it will speed up renders via PBR or MPR if the Irradiance files were written out.
Will have to read up on it more.
After showing the day and night lighting, Mr Douglas was leaning to the night version, plus he doesn't mind going for stylized lighting with the use of HDR image. Glowing particles effects (aura) may be implemented. Some references suggested by both him and Mr Pang were Ominusha's aura and Percy Jackson's hydra transformation.
Another movie came to my mind, it was Disney's Enchanted where the evil queen turns into a drake, the entry really had a devilish and ominous look and the lighting, stormy clouds and lightning all seem like something could be brought into our project.
Our pipeline should focus on being production friendly and rendering efficiency. A rough margin would be maximum 10 minutes per frame (heavy scenes) but ideally a couple of minutes like 3 (lighter scenes).
We can also be involved in compositing stage if we can cope, we'll be doing it in COPs which Mr TK says is a good stepping stone to Foundry's Nuke.
YouTube Links
Enchanted
Onimusha 2
Onimusha - Dawn of Dreams
Onimusha Transformation
Mr Douglas and Rap were showing some work they had developed, details will be added later tomorrow. Hopefully i can post the video Rap sent me after i ask him.
Joined our lecturers and client for lunch this time, they chatted with us and share some ideas on how to go about work. Mr TK talked about the forums & encouraged everybody to be active, he also sneakily said Jeff Wagner (Houdini expert at SESI) was replying to Tanner's post which we wouldn't had known as the user wasn't using his real name.
Told us to take note of some ethics during our stint in California, what to expect at the office and not be stay on the streets at night and try to go around in pairs. Really feel our batch is in good hands and deeply appreciate what all of them are doing for us since year 1. :)
Hi Mr Ron, looking forward to seeing you again soon. Take care.
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