Website: Solid Angle

In case we lost this simple but elegant website design for a renderer, I make snapshots of the website and post a blog for them. The website is Solid Angle , the company developing/delivering Arnold Renderer, which I thought the most strong challenger and rule breaker in animation/VFX industry. Well, did I mention that Pixar’s RenderMan got threatened by Arnold Renderer?! {{ flickr drakeguan 8259957537 >}} {{ flickr drakeguan 8259957599 >}} ...

December 10, 2012 · 1 分鐘 · Drake Guan

萬聖節都過了還在搞什麼?

December 6, 2012 · 0 分鐘 · Drake Guan

西門町又多了一個仙人?!

December 6, 2012 · 0 分鐘 · Drake Guan

Color Adds Depth

The most astonishing stereoscopic creative I’ve ever seen in this year. Check it out! References: 2012 ADCOLOR Awards: Color Adds Depth: Questlove ADCOLOR CELEBRATES DIVERSITY WITH COLOR STEREOSCOPY

November 13, 2012 · 1 分鐘 · Drake Guan

It's all about the mouth

{{ flickr drakeguan 8095713450 >}}

October 17, 2012 · 1 分鐘 · Drake Guan

從 Github 來看各家動畫公司對於 Open Source 的投入狀況

{{ flickr drakeguan 3000888102 >}} Siggraph 2009 年時,Sony Pictures Imageworks1 正式對外發佈, 啟動了五項開放源始碼的計畫 。 隔了一年,在 Siggraph 2011 時,組織了一個 Open Source 的論壇 , 由來自 Sony Pictures Images, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar Animation Studios 等人聚在一起,與業界人事討論這事。相當的盛況空前。 在今年,則是由 Dreamworks 發佈出來的 OpenVDB 以及 Pixar 放出來的 OpenSubdiv 接棒執行下去 。 ...

October 5, 2012 · 1 分鐘 · Drake Guan

RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 announced

What can you expect from the release of Pixar’s RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 ? Performance Object Instancing New Photon Mapping Features Faster Ray-traced Hair with Improved RiCurves Adaptive Area Shadows RSL Arrays Volume Rendering Optimizations Alembic Support Plausible Hair OpenEXR Update 第一點不意外,你永遠會希望你使用的 renderer 在效能上更快、 使用記憶體的方式更高明、disk IO 更有效率之類的。 整個來說,你最關心的第一件事,就是這個 renderer 夠不夠快, 使得你工作起來很愉快,而不需要隨時等算圖~ 但新版的 renderer 一定也會新增不少功能或修正 (不然無法讓你心干情願自腰包裏頭拿出錢), 所以,所謂的 performance,是指在新增/修改了一堆東西後, 整個 renderer 還是有變比較快的。 從這樣來看的話,你以後大可直接都先跳過 performance 的文字敘述, 直接去看它接下來提的功能變化 :) ...

October 5, 2012 · 2 分鐘 · Drake Guan

Colors of Maya's Channel Box

I always forgot which color means what in Maya’s Channel box such that I hard-copied the following table from the documentation and make a post in case I forgot again… {{ flickr drakeguan 8053306236 >}} Expression Purple Translate X Muted Brown Translate Y Blended Green Constrained Blue Rotate Locked Gray Scale X Connected Yellow Scale Y Keyed Light Orange Scale Z Nonkeyable Light gray Visibility {{ flickr drakeguan 8053306284 >}} ...

October 3, 2012 · 1 分鐘 · Drake Guan