Arnold course with Boaz Livny

[Bullit]

Lets hope he does a book, the course is too expensive.
What i found interesting is that he moved from MR to Arnold. Usually people so invested in one technology don't like change.


http://workshops.cgsociety.org/coursein ... =livmay394

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Week by week outline


1. Arnold fundamentals 1 
a. UI, render settings, arnold indirect illumination
b. command line rendering and rend farm considerations

 

 2. Arnold fundamentals 2 
a. shaders and shader math
b. shader trees with arnold
c. custom texture coordinates (Mari to Arnold)

 

 3. Lighting techniques with Arnold 
a. light types and their settings
b. image based lighting
c. Linear workflows

 

 4. Cameras 
a. lens simulation and motion blur
b. ray-switch techniques and matching live action plates

 

 5. Intermediate topics 1 
a. shape settings and customizing arnold settings
b. bump mapping and displacement mapping
c. particle related topics (ICE)

 

 6. Intermediate topics 2 
a. subsurface scattering
b. volume light effects

 

7. Advanced Arnold 1 
a. arnold stand-ins
b. hair / fur rendering (Shave and Haircut)
c. Arnold passes

 

 8. Advanced Arnold 2 
a. custom passes
b. Nuke compositing

[McNistor]

It's all cool that humanity's pool of knowledge is constantly growing, but the way I see this Arnold thing right now is that you have more chances of landing a job working in Softimage - which are pretty low - than working with Arnold.
I know Arnold is used with Maya and others, but even so, chances of working with this renderer are slim, bi-dimensional slim. At least for now.

[SreckoM]

He also does courses with Vray AFAIK.

[Bullit]

Master of renderers then.

Mr.Blair in a Vray thread said there is sometimes flexibility to one person license for Arnold, maybe related to the quality work done.

http://groups.google.com/group/xsi_list ... f287453fb3