Disney Releases Production Assets for R&D and Education

[Njen]

I know this is cheating in that it's not an 'all in one' solution, but I imagine we could get close to the Disney result by rendering the cloud twice. One with the Corona volume material, and one with a PBR type material and mix the two in comp with a faint fresnel mask.

As Ondra said, "clouds are super difficult to render".
So, we will need some sort of optimized CoronaCloudMtl =)
It would be amazing to export Clouds layer in VDB format from Terragen and render it in Corona (^__^)

As a user of both Terragen and Corona, I find this wishlist item enticing.

[Frood]

Yes, it's not very complicated =)

As Ondra said, "clouds are super difficult to render".

Well, at least I did not expect that much tweaking. Nice result Francesco! At least my cloud does not look like dirty snow anymore :)


Good Luck

[cecofuli]

A few hours later...

[cecofuli]

I've download the island-basepackage-v1.tgz. It' 40GB
Inside, there are a lo of json file: how can I import in 3ds Max?

[pokoy]

So I let the render run in full res for 2 days, I realized that for the former test I've used the quarter res of the vdb file which didn't produce that much detail of course.
Result is attached, doing another one with less density as I feel it could still be less dense.

[romullus]

I guess matrix is still far far away...

[pokoy]

I guess matrix is still far far away...

Not if you ask Nvidia :D for them it's always 'next year'

[steyin]

I guess matrix is still far far away...

The more advancements I see in 3D/rendering every year the more I think how possible it is we could be living in a simulation. Especially the Nvidia stuff as Pokoy mentioned.

[Fluss]

That extra detail in shadow area of the Disney render feels to me to be some sort of fresnel/reflection effect. I mean clouds are water vapour, and water is reflective. As mentioned before, this is probably built into Disney's awesome volume shader.

They have some tech we do not have yet :

[maru]

woah, that's amazing, they basically have lightmix for clouds... cloudmix!

[Fluss]

Yes that's insane ! I've read/or seen somewhere that corona team is exploring the AI side recently 😀
AI seems to push the bundaries further, years after years!

[cecofuli]

Jesus... I'm shocked! O_O It's so cool! It looks similar, as a concept, do IA Denoise Nvidia

[burnin]

Nice techie articles by Matt Pharr (one of pbrt-v3 authors)
Swallowing the elephant (part 1)
Swallowing the elephant (part 2)