Hair and Strands are supported as of a couple of builds now, but
'lofted' strands are not, they're still in progress. The hair shader is
also not live yet and is being worked on currently, but the default
Redshift_Architectural works fine for most cases. You can do a good bit
with it, especially cartoony stuff.
-Tim
On 2/19/2014 2:58 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
Amazing job! I'm buying a license tomorrow! No joke. Any idea on how
far away hair/fur/Strands support is?
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Tim Crowson
<tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com
<mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com>> wrote:
We were fortunate to be able to work on an ad for Chick-Fil-A
recently, rendered in Redshift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZow-3nCl0k
*Client:* Chick-Fil-A/Radiate Films
*Director:* Ben Smallbone
*Art Director:* Joel Gibbs
*3D:* Tim Crowson
*Comp:* Joel Gibbs/Don Culwell
The concept was simple: have a camera move through a room as it
changes decor to reflect a different decade from the 1960s up
through the present day. We technically had 2 weeks from start to
finish, but in reality we wound up with a much tighter schedule.
We certainly didn't have time to model what we needed, so we
bought some commercial models, retextured and reshaded them, and
lit the scenes. In the end I was able to get each decade accounted
for in about one work day each. Spent a couple of hours in the
morning gathering and prepping the assets, then blocking in the
lighting and shading, then rest of the day tweaking, and finally
off to render. Joel and Don then took it and comped it in After
Effects.
- The 3-bounce cap was raised right as I started lighting this,
and I was so thankful! I used 8 bounces on this job and it really
helped, especially in the 70s set, with all the orange spill
everywhere.
- The shag carpet in the 70s set is not hair. It's just a single
dense rug instanced around the room.
- Rendered using IPC + BF. The longest frames were for the 70s and
took maybe 12-15min on our fastest machines. Other shots were
closer to the 5-6 min mark.
- The 80s set was tough! Have you ever tried to actually define
the 80s in terms of style? It's a mess! We all have ideas about
it, but when it comes time to actually produce something that says
'80s', and you have like a day to do it, it's not easy. Stupid
80s! In the end, we had a couple of different directions to go in,
and just picked one.
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