An animated robot.

Modelled and animated in Softimage. Rendered in Thea.



It still needs a few animation fixes.

it looks really good^^,i like the rendering and the simplistic design of it!
well done

wow.. I've been reading up on Thea.. how do you like it?

Nice!
I hope you'll have time to finish something bigger with this robot

Btw, I was trying Thea, but exporter was doing some weird things on my machine. I'll wait for another version and try again

Thanks guys.

Yeah, Thea Render is fantastic. You can get very decent results without too much of a steep learning curve. It is still in Beta but the team developing it are very responsive to the user base and are constantly updating. GPU acceleration is on the way so it will only improve.

I don't have plans to do much more with Robot Jack. He was just a test to see if it was feasable to get shape animation from Softimage to Thea. Maybe I'll populate his environment with little sockets for him to pug his hands into.

Some more animated tests done with Softimage and rendered with Thea



This one is a test in transferring a meshed (Polygonizer) fluid sim (Lagoa) from Softimage to Thea Render. The sim requires some work and the mesher is not behaving in a few areas. Still needs bubbles, motion blur etc.



A little experiment in getting ICE strands over from Softimage to Thea render.

I made this guy a few years ago when Phil's ICE pack first came out by using the verlet strands compounds. Seemed like it was time he got a proper(ish) render. The new extrude geometry along strand compound in Softimage 2012 has made getting them out a lot easier.

Rendered with just a sun and a HDRI for reflections using TR1. Sub-surface is faked with a medium material.

EDIT: The twitching of the strands on the arms is a mystery to me. If anyone knows of a possible solution Mopman would be very gratefull.

this looks great , like a hairy morph from AArdman had a little look at LUX render, Does Thea supprt instancing as well?

Thankyou

Yeah Thea supports instancing. They have just announced a massive render speed boost for the next release. Polygon counts somewhere in the billions for instancing.

I love the hairy guy, he's totally awesome. Great renders!

Looks great! I would like to hear a bit more about you experience with Thea and Softimage I´m dropping by certain GPU renderer from time to time, and test them. By now, the plugins for most of them do not work that well. However, would be great to know, how Thea performs in this respect..

best,
oliver