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On 4 February 2014 20:35, Sven Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, they're built entirely in SI with a bit of cleanup in comp. It's nota > single tool but rather a shading network using mental ray caustics, > working together with different softimage scenes. So, there is no tool in > particular and rendertimes are quite high. The whole setup is not very user > friendly, except for myself :) My intention from the beginning was to make > ready-to-go sequences for use as lightmaps. > > Glad you like it. > > > > sven > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Vincent Fortin > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 04, 2014 5:49 PM > *To:* softimage > *Subject:* Re: Advanced water caustics > > > > This is quite impressive! Are they built in SI? > > I've made a similar setup in ICE but don't have the same accuracy as you > in the chromatic dispersion yet. > > Looks awesome, congrats (maybe you should sell the tool?) > > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Sven Constable <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello list, > > in case you will need highest quality water caustics (for the one out of 50 > projects)... I made a bunch of them. > I started working on it over a year ago when I needed high quality caustics > for a project and I didn't find anything that would give me really nice > results. So I built them by myself and they were so useful that I decided > to > make more variations and make it also more versatile und useful for others. > > Yes, there are caustic sequences already available on stock footage > websites > (filmed and CG) and there are also caustic generators out there, but they > are often in low res, or LDR or not loopable and have no chromatic > dispersion (what is very important to have a realistic look). Filmed > caustics are obviously not useful in general and most of the CG versions > look very artificial. To my knowledge, there is no caustic sequence that > has > all these features combined and looking decent at the same time. > > I spend a lot of time to make them as realistic and versatile as possible. > I > made them commercially available and they might be useful for your upcoming > underwater shots. Even it is quite a niche product. > They comes as 200 frames loopable sequences in 2k exr, with chromatic > dispersion and are suited for different water depths. Four sets are > available: For pool scenes, fishtanks, ocean scenes and 'Miniature'. Each > set contains two versions and each of these contains four depth versions > (1,2,4 and 8m). So you will get eight sequences for each scenario or 32 > sequences in total with all four sets. They can be easily combined to get > even more variety. Maybe also useful for comp and motiongraphics stuff, but > I designed them primarily for use in 3D scenes. > > You can watch them in action here and you can also download a few samples: > > http://advcaustics.imagefront.de/ > > Best regards, > Sven > > ________________________ > > Sven Constable > Imagefront 3D & VFX > Ottobrunnerstr.2a > 81737 München > Germany > phone (0)89 442 327 93 > fax (0)89 442 327 94 > > www.imagefront.de > > >
