Exclusive Realities
I made three videos this week and I want to talk about them. The first was ‘Self Frottage with Light’ in which I used TiltBrush, a VR painting app from Google, to manually 3D scan myself. I used the mirror … Continued
CG & VR Part 3 – Spherical Compositing in Maya
Software: Maya 2016 – Modeling (There’s a Free 30-Day Trial) Mental Ray for Maya – Rendering Domemaster3D Maya Plugin – Spherical Camera Creator Hardware: A Mono-Spherical Camera – (I’ll be using a Ricoh Theta S) Step 1 – … Continued
CG & VR Part 2 – VR Rendering in Maya
Software: Maya 2016 – Modeling (There’s a Free 30-Day Trial) Mental Ray for Maya – Rendering Domemaster3D Maya Plugin – Stereo-Spherical Camera Creator Photoshop – Combining Rendered Images into Over-Under format (Again, there’s a Free 30-Day Trial) Firefox Nightly – VR … Continued
CG & VR Part 1 – Rendering Challenges
Stereo Rigs Before we launch into any hands-on stuff, we’re going to explore what makes pre-rendering CG scenes in stereo-spherical for cinematic with a software package like Maya a bit challenging in comparison to rendering them in a mono-spherical format. To start … Continued