One of the advantages of running Linux on render farm machines is the possibility to remotely manage them using the command line. However if you are running the farm on Windows, this is a whole different kind of story.
Ever found yourself trying to open a complex Maya scene with nested references on a Windows/Linux network using your Macbook (or any of the other OS combos)?
An interview with me on our cloud rendering solutions is now published over at CGSociety.
“We need to make sure that we’re working with the best technology, as some of our projects can be very render intensive,” he begins. “But our motto is to spend time focusing on the creative side of building beautiful images, and let the machines do the hard work.”
Check it out here.
This is how I would deal with the linear workflow (including non-linear preview) between Maya 2010 and Nuke 6.0v6.
Mental images and/or Autodesk has intentionally not made Iray available in the latest release of Autodesk Maya; version 2011. But there is a workaround...
There seems to be a general confusion on linear workflows and how 3D/compositing packages work, what sRGB/gamma 2.2 is for and why it’s a good idea to render images in linear data throughout the pipeline. This is my take on a linear workflow with Maya and Nuke as well as a bit of history on the subject.
The production shader library contains a set of shaders aimed at production users of mental ray. The library contains a diverse collection of shaders, ranging from small utilities such as ray type switching and card opacity to large complex shaders such as the fast 2d motion blur shader.
Eleven years after the successful TV series “Kenny Starfighter”, galaxy hero Kenny returns in “Kenny Begins”. The ambitions of the film, shot with the Red One camera, was to become the biggest feature film of the action comedy genre ever made in Sweden, sporting more than 600 visual effects shots.
This is a showcase of some assorted hands-on work done by me at Filmgate. Besides working on the graphics (and generally running the company with my co-founders), I was responsible for script breakdowns and on-set supervision for many feature film productions. A full list of productions can be seen over at IMDB.
