Dec 18, 2013

Scene Optimizer

Another of my Cluster Studio Tools for optimizing scenes:

In order to keep our Maya scenes clean and free of common errors to avoid delays in the production, we needed to create a new tool that could check and automatically fix most of this problems.

So, the scene optimizer was born:



Dec 16, 2013

Easy Fur Render Passes

I made a tool for easily setup fur passes, you just choose which kind of pass or what shader to apply to the fur and it does it properly in just one click.


Fast Light Render

I have been working on a new kind of render cheat, that gives awesome result in really short times, it works both on Maya Software and Mental Ray (obviously it gives better results in MR).

Top/down: Daylight, dusk, night (artificial light)
Render time: Less than 50secs each.

It works by not having to compute final gather or global illumination, it generates a fake but semi-accurate Volumetric Light Bake* for projecting directly to the materials.

2011 - 2012 Renders


Laputa Guardian - Flying Castle

2010 - 2011 Renders


I started this one on Autocad!


Alembic Pipeline

In Cluster Studio I have been developing various tools to help both the production and the artists, this is one of many, you can check this tools and others in their blog:

We have come to realize the amazing potential of the Alembic format in almost every step of the process.

It can clean the hierarchy of the nodes, bake the animations, reduce scene sizes, increase the fps count in the viewport, even reduce render times!!!. So in order to harvest all this power we developed a series of tools to help the artist to manage, export and load the files seamlessly, easy and fast, while keeping them organized and consistent.

We have a standalone version and one integrated with Shotgun and Tank (Pipeline Tookit), both versions do almost the same in the guts. 


Sep 18, 2013

NITools

NITools is a compendium of tools for Maya that i have been developing for a while.

There are tools for each pipeline step, from modeling to rendering, shortcuts and scripts.

There is a free version of the tool that you can get in creativecrash. But if you want the complete version you can get in contact with me for giving you a personalized paypal and download links.