For those of you who like to use a linear workflow in Maya, you might notice that once you apply a lens shader (mental ray) or an overall gamma setting (vray) to your scene with gamma 2.2, while your gamma-corrected textures might look great, your image planes will be washed Read more…
A lot of After Effects compositors like to use a plugin to allow texture substitution on objects, called Re:Map. You render out a special color pass from your 3D scene, and then the plugin uses those colors to wrap a flat image onto the object, basically allowing you to re-texture Read more…
I recently took a staff position at the up-and-coming Gentleman Scholar Studios in Santa Monica. I’ll be their “Technical Director,” which more or less means I’ll be doing more of the same old scripting, lighting and materials. Which is totally fine with me… these guys are gonna be big. Also on Read more…