LEARNING ARCHIVE: How to light and shade with Arnold in Maya

About a year and a half ago I participated in one of the CG Society workshops on lighting and shading in Arnold. This was the result of one of my weekly lessons. In this session I lit and shaded the model (no texturing as that was already supplied with the model). After that I played around with Xgen hair in Maya to get a sense of how it worked.

We used Digital Emily 2.0 a part of the Wikihuman Project. A collaborative effort by the members of the Digital Human League to advance the study of digital humans.

To check out and download the model you can go to the wikihuman project.

For more information, please visit their blog at wikihuman.org

2017 - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - FILTHY

“Filthy” was a fast paced project in which I had the chance to work as a Senior Animator. I worked on several of the dance
moves that start after minute 1:28 and was also the last animator on the show responsible for re-doing, updating and fixing some of the other shots. Meanwhile I also developed a script to standardize the animators playblasts with same viewport 2.0 settings and light rig based on the camera view. Towards the end of the show I also made a script to be passed along to other animators that would fix a rig issue. It just so happened that the designated rigger had already left the show.

FIRST HALF OF 2018

For the first 4months of the year I had the privledge to work with Method on a previs project that allowed me plenty of creative liberty and an outlet for my joy in modeling as well. This was a great chance to play around with character animation, camera moves and set modeling. Unfortunatley In this case I won’t be able to show what I’ve done ... one of the downsides of some projects.

Though, before heading out on vacation I still had the chance to work on some smaller projects, one of which was another Target spot called “Dino Clash”. I was responsible for the previs and animation for this one. A fun and relaxing job to be on as well.

TARGET HOLIDAYS 2017

For the first spot I worked on Barbie answering the phone, hoard of minions running towards camera and Superman and Peppa Pig on final shot. For the second spot I worked on Batman and Barbie (the one that catches the Tree ornament from the air) from the 10sec to the 15sec mark.
For the third spot I worked on all the characters from the 9sec to the 9sec mark.