[VIDEO] Maya toon car driving test and some proxy renders with substance shaders

just a quick test of a toon shader rendered with mental ray outlines. Also created a parking lot and rendered it with mi render proxies to be able to handle all the geometry. All in all it was about 20 Million polygons, since I also used Maya fur for the grass.
The plants were downloaded from Autodesk seek and the ivy created with the ivy creator.

All textures were created with the substance shaders in Maya 2012.

It was just a test to implement a toon car into an environment, so its nothing final, just a test.
Also tested the capabilities of craft animation plugin for Maya.
Just messing about with it :)

We later used it in a project at Fiction Films.

Parking lot proxy render with toon car and substance shaders:










Some wireframes and the proxy geometry:

the parkinglot lamp:



grass bit and concrete bit of the parking space:




The car park as proxy geometry:





here just driving around in Maya :)



closeups of the toon shader:

[INFO] News

all images now hosted on Picasa

[INFO] News

As my current image host zooomr isnt maintained anymore and a lot of images have already been deleted by them, i have to move to a new image host.
Will update those missing images as soon as possible. Especially older posts have missing image issues.

[PHOTOS] Classic Car meeting 2011 ( Oldtimertage Fürstenfeld )

This weekend was the annual vintage car meeting in Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich Germany. ( Oldtimertage Fürstenfeld 2011 )

Took plenty of photos of course.

Complete gallery here: link

[RIG] Crazy train ride - Maya railway rigging test

created a very rough and sketchy train rig with Maya. This is just a test and the train behaviour is far from realistic.
Also the scaling isnt correct and the speed of the train isnt correct either, especially in curves. But then it was just for fun and a test. Nothing else.

Its more of a rollercoaster ride to be honest. :D

HD video links:

vimeo

youtube





3d models like the bullet train ICE and the bridges are from Google warehouse / Google Earth.

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Bridges and Tunnel models:

1. Firth of Forth Bridge
2. some custom Bridge
3. Golden Gate Bridge
4. Arc de Triomphe Paris ( Tunnel entrance )
5. some custom Bridge
6. Newcastle Highlevel Bridge
7. Arc de Triomphe Paris ( Tunnel entrance )
8. Salginatobel Bridge
9. Benjamin Franklin Bridge
10. Lupu bridge China

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sound effects from:
freesound.org

music by:
Appalachian winter
The Mountains in Stone