ON LOCATION WITH RENDERMAN

SIDEFX HOUDINI | RENDERMAN FOR HOUDINI v23 (NON-COMMERCIAL EDITION AVAILABLE) SUBSTANCE PAINTER | MARI (OPTIONAL) | FOUNDRY NUKE | THANKS TO TURBOSQUID FOR THE MODELS

Having 20 years’ experience of directing music videos and films, I’ve spent many hours on a film set and I wanted to use this real-world experience and convey it across into my other passion… creating imagery in Pixar’s amazing RenderMan.

I am currently creating a RenderMan Houdini short for Pixar, so I thought it would be fun to create an image that played on the theme of being on set for that animation; giving a glimpse behind the scenes by using my real-world experience of film sets, lights, camera lenses and so on, I wanted to convey this knowledge into a 3D image.

01 TURBOSQUID KITBASH

Whilst creating each individual model from scratch would be ideal, time is not always on your side. TurboSquid has a great collection of quality models to use, most already UV’d and ready to texture. As this scene