Project #3: Project Settings and Updates

Final Video & Breakdown Link:

https://vimeo.com/208163542

(a preview of frame 311 in Nuke)

Maya/Arnold Settings

AOVs, Initial Render Settings, and Sampling/Ray Depth/Motion Blur Values:

AOVs for Project 3

Initial Render Settings

Sampling Rates, Ray Depth, and Motion Blur

Render Layers Setup:

The only layers I didn’t end up using were “ground Projection” and “groundRefMask”, which was a duplicate of “justFloorReflect”.

Render Times

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Key Light & allObjectReflection Layers: ~30 – 50 minutes per frame

Fill Light Layer: ~60 – 100 minutes per frame

Shadow and Ground Bounce Layers: ~8 – 20 minutes per frame

I rendered all of my “heavier” layers on the Renderfarm, and I opted to locally render many of the mask layers that were super inexpensive. For my final submission of this project, I also added motion blur and depth of field in the render process.

The fill layer was my most expensive by far, largely due to the sampling rates and the refractive material.

Nuke Node Tree

Total Node Tree:

Total Node Tree

 

Foreground and Background Elements:

*Foreground includes key, fill, ground bounce, and  object occlusion layers.

*Background includes shadow and ground occlusion layers.

Foreground & Background Elements (top of node tree)

Foreground Elements 1

Background Elements

 

Ground Reflection Elements:

Ground Reflection Elements & Merge

Ground Reflection Masks

Mask and Merge Connections

Mask and Merge for Mirror Ground Reflection

 

Dancer Reflections & Mirror Bar Roto:

Dancers and Dancer Reflection Masks

Masks for Mirror Reflections

Roto of bar on Mirror

 

Final Elements:

*Includes Lightwrap, Final Merge, Firefly Killer plug-in, and Edge Blur.

*Special thanks to Dhruv for sending our class a link to the Firefly Killer Gizmo script which can be found here:

http://muellerstefan.de/?p=20

Final Elements: Light Wrap, Edge Blur, Firefly Killer