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Working with arnold operators can be very beneficial in your visual effect pipeline, among other things you are going to be able to transfer 'for free' pretty much anything from one 3D package to another, in this case from Maya to Houdini and vice-versa. In this video I will guide you trough arnold operators in both Maya and Houdni to show you advanced methods for creating looks, and potentially anything arnold related. WeвЂ™ll be doing this simple shot below from start to finish, it is quite simple and graphic I know, but to get there IвЂ™m going to explain to you many things that you are going to be using quite a lot in visual effects shots, more than we actually end up using in the shot. Let me explain to you what is all of this about. We are going to be able to cover more features of the render engine and also discover more broad techniques that hopefully you will find interesting.

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The next couple of videos about this series are going to be dedicated to doing from scratch to finish a little project using Redshift. This should give you a pretty good base to start your projects in Houdini and Redshift, or whatever 3D app you want to use with Redshift.

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In the third episode we talked about camera mapping, surface shaders, texturing, displacement maps from Mari and Zbrush, how to ingest Substance Painter textures and did a few surfacing exercises. We also talked about Redshift lighting tools, built-in atmospheric effects, and cameras. I shared with you my own вЂњcheat sheetsвЂќ to deal with GI and sampling. We have already discussed in depth the most basics features like global illumination and sampling. My Patreon series вЂњIntroduction to Redshift for VFXвЂќ is coming to an end. You can just decimate the model and export it as. These photogrammetry scans are usually something around 13 вЂ“ 18 million of polygons. Now it can also easily be done in Houdini.ДЇirst of all, open the ztool provided by the scanning vendor in Zbrush. It is a great idea to match both poses to easily transfer color details and surface details between the scan and the production model.ДЇor both situations, modeling or texturing, this is a workflow that usually involves Wrap3 or other proprietary tools for Maya. Commonly, a texture artist gets a digital double production model in t-pose or a similar pose that doesnвЂ™t necessary match the scan pose.

This workflow can be used during modeling the digital double and also while texturing it. This technique will allow you to easily wrap a generic human to any actorвЂ™s scan to create digital doubles. Not saying that I can fully replace Wrap3 but for some common and easy tasks, like wrapping generic humans to scans for both modelling and texturing, I can definitely use Houdini now instead of Wrap 3. Downloadable material will be attached in the next post.ДЇor a little while I have been using Houdini topo transfer tools instead of Wrap 3. We'll be working with the latest versions of Houdini, Arnold and ACES.ДЄs usually, the video starts with some slides where I try to explain why building a lookdev rig is a must before you do any work on your project, don't skip it, I know it is boring but very much needed. Talking about HDA's, I will be introducing the new features for HDA's that come with Houdini 18.5.633 that I think are really nice, specially for smaller studios that don't have enough resources to build a pipeline around HDA's.Д«y the end of this video you should be able to build your own lookdev tool and adapt it to the needs of your projects. It is in a way similar to the one we did for Katana a while ago, but using all the power and flexibility of Houdini's HDA system. In this video I show you how to create a production ready lookdev rig for Houdini, or what I like to call, a single click render solution for your lookdevs. The video is about 2 hours long and we can use this character in the future to do some other videos about character/creature work.

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And once we have that, we will re-project back all the details from the sculpt and we will apply high resolution displacement maps to get all the fine details like skin pores, wrinkles, skin imperfections, etc. In this video we will focus mainly on wrapping a generic character around any concep sculpt to get a model that can be used for rigging, animation, lookdev, cfx, etc. This workflow will speed drastically the way you approach digital doubles or any other humanoid character, like this zombie here. This generic humanoid would have perfect topology, great uv mapping, some standard skin shaders, isolation maps to control different areas, grooming templates, etc.

To do this, we are going to use a generic humanoid, usually provided by your visual effects studio. This time is all about getting your concept sculpts into the pipeline. This is probably the last video of the year, let's see about that.