Nearing the end

Here are the latest Maya tasks

These are the different shaders created

Clay




Red Plastic




Glass




Silver




Gold




Chrome




Glow (with geometry)




Glow2 (Without Geometry)





Here is the Glass and Bottle Scene, with the glass using a Sampler Info node to control reflections. I stupidly forgot to switch refractions on, on the glass shader the first time I rendered, but that was easily fixed.




Here are the Poker Chips. Texturing was straight forward.




Here is the Detectives Desk Scene. Complete with ambient occlusion and depth of field. I was surprised at how quick ambient occlusion took to render. Usually it’s the slowest render pass.




Here is my last test portrait. I realized that folding the images around the cubes was difficult to get to look right. So I’m just overlaying the images onto the cubes. My final portrait won’t be blue either.

I have finally finished the essay on portraiture. This I found difficult. Particularly starting, but its done and out the way.