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Gallery / The Chubby Fish - The Monster Project 2017

« on: 2017-11-06, 11:00:28 »

This was our final image for this years The Monster Project.  Its a cool little project where kids draw monsters and artists from all over the world recreate them in their own style.

Slightly higher quality images, including the original kid's artwork can be found on our Behance project - here

And, the full project with nearly 100 artists can be found here

We finished this a few weeks ago using one of the Corona daily builds, not sure which one, but absolutely loving the new skin shader. 

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[Max] Feature Requests / DR server automatic restart on render start/end

« on: 2017-07-21, 06:52:09 »

Restart CoronaDR on render end - same as V-Ray default DR option.  We are currently having a few problems with DR where jobs pick up but don't actually start, they load 5-6gb into ram then just stall indefinutly. Restarting CoronaDR fixes it straight away.  This is across multiple scenes, generally when they are quite heavy or if the previous scene was quite heavy.  So would be nice to have a 'fresh' CoronaDR running after each render.

Use localhost option would also be nice, so we can DR but not use the local machine and continue to work/render.

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[Max] I need help! / Shadow catcher workflow, full CG

« on: 2017-07-04, 08:59:46 »

Hey guys, I've been searching and experimenting but cant seem to get the shadow catcher working well/at all for what I need in my scene.  And Corona seems really sluggish while I'm using shadow catcher too which has made me question whether I am doing it right.

What I am trying to do....
I have a scene with a stationary camera and a moving plant and curtain (blowing in a breeze).  I want to render the room (plant and curtain hidden) as a single frame, and then render the plant,curtain separately for a little more control and the option to switch these for different plant or wind speed simulations at a later date. And maybe shorter render times overall...

Is this possible? and if so what would the correct workflow be?

Thanks

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Work in Progress/Tests / Corona Sketchbook

« on: 2017-01-22, 15:02:35 »

I've been trying out Corona since just before Christmas, and over the past couple of weeks I've been doing an image a night.  Nothing too complicated, mainly just trying out different techniques; playing with Megascans, SSS and volumetric materials, procedural texturing etc.

So far I'm pretty impressed.  I've been a happy VRay user for the past 3-4 years, but so far working with Corona has been much quicker and a lot more fun.


Cheers