Renderman vs. Mental Ray vs. Maya software renderers

performance comparison between these three renderers on Maya by Maximilian Schonherr.


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PIXERO: Mray Shaders and Tutorials

Jan Sandström's web page.

maya shaders, mentalray shaders, darktree shaders, tutorials ( maya and mentalray )...


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OVERBURN 1.6 for Maya

"OverBurn is a combination of particles, fluids and particleSamplerInfo nodes. It substitutes the default particleCloud shader with fluid one ( voxels ). As result, the final look of the particles is mutch better and believeble. Using this technique we can represent wider range of interesting volumetric effects like explosions, fireballs, dust, smoke, lava, ice, etc."

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DgeeMe motion capture free software

"DGeeMe is a video based motion capture and analysis software package. The software can be used for sports skill analysis and for real motion input to development of games."

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Timelines and Milestones of Computer Animation and Visual Effects

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SUBDIVISIONMODELING.COM

Excellent blog with reviews, resources, forums and everything you want to know about modeling with subdivisions.

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3D Delight Renderman Renderer

"3Delight is a fast RenderMan®-compliant renderer designed to produce photorealistic images for serious production environments. Some of its features include ray tracing, global illumination, motion blur, depth of field, subdivision surfaces, programmable shaders, quality antialiasing and antialiased multi-depth shadow maps. It is available for a wide variety of platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, Linux and IRIX."

3Delight's Features:


RenderMan® Compliant


RenderMan® Shading Language Support


Fast and Efficient Rendering


Extensible Display Drivers



Multi-platform Support with Specific Code Optimization

3Delight

online free textures at imageafter.com

"Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial."

free for commercial or personal use, at least 10 daily additions

imageafter.com

ATI mobility on Ubuntu linux

a useful link for those who wants to run 3d software with ATI video cards on Ubuntu linux:

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fxpodcast at fxguide.com

do u know more about visual fx industry? News and interviews?

The guys at FXguide.com have a serious podcast to the VFX professional.

FXpodcast

render passes for maya free plugin

wrote by Andrew Chapman, this maya plugin is an indispensable tool for the CG artist who needs to customize render passes in a single file.

versions available: Maya 4.5 to 7.0 for Win32/Linux, Maya 6.0 to 7.0 for OSX

"Render passes are a crucial aspect of generating high-end visual effects work. A render pass is a special render where you change various aspects of your shaders, lights and scene in order to make matching sets of images that allow the 2D compositing process maximum control."

render passes for maya